Entries from May 2008

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Will .MAC finally get its act together?

The latest to hit the rumor mills as we approach Apple’s WWDC is a potential name change and revamp of their long stagnant .mac system. .Mac has offered web mail and online storage for quite some time now, but with bare features and limited storage capacity it has fallen way behind the curve. And at [...]

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

6 Reasons Why Philanthropy Has Failed

AND HOW TO FIX THEM. Let me just stop you now before you question my statement that philanthropy has failed. Yes, I realize that worldwide giving is tremendous – that Americans alone (by far the most generous when it comes to per capita giving) donated over $300 billion dollars last year alone. And yes, many [...]

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

More Perspective on Work/Life Balance

If you haven’t noticed based on my interest in this subject, it is an area I struggle with on occasion. Randy Komisar has lived a very full life already and has some good insight on the topic (as well as a wealth of other topics). If you haven’t read his book, “The Monk and the [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The Microhoo Saga continues…

In the latest news, Microsoft and Yahoo talks are back on. But not for an acquisition this time. Microsoft officially states: Microsoft is considering and has raised with Yahoo! an alternative that would involve a transaction with Yahoo! but not an acquisition of all of Yahoo! This leaves us with a couple of options: An [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Can Yahoo Beat the House?

Ever since Microsoft’s unsolicited bid for Yahoo, the drama has been persistent and the speculation rampant. I will assume you are familiar with the story. Microsoft makes its unwanted bid. Yahoo scrambles to do anything they can to thwart the bid: poison pill packages for post-acquisition severance and stock vesting; “strategic” alternatives with News Corp, [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

The Culture of Work

The culture of work in America is sufficiently ingrained in most of us; it is the work ethic we have all been taught. Working hard and being productive are excellent traits. They are things to be proud of, and a major factor in the unrivaled innovation of the United States. It is also been how [...]

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

A Reason to Write

Blogging. I was completely aware of it from its birth and along its path to mainstream status. But it wasn’t for me. It was for people that had a lot of time on there hands… too much time. Or maybe for narcissists that just needed another outlet to talk about – you guessed it, themselves. [...]