Social Change

The current conversation about the Washington Post’s decision to pull comments off a blog on its web site includes a CNet story saying the Post will now try to publish some of the comments sans the ones with offensive language. Editor Jim Brady says the Post tried to monitor the site, but it took too many people to keep up ...

If you have a little slack time around Christmas, you might want to read this article from the the Washington Post about industry speculation that Microsoft is losing it. Can the monopoly we all have a love/hate relationship with be slipping? Some think so. But I recommend it because it isn’t, to my way of thinking, about software. It’s about ...

The AP is running a story today about Futureme.org — a new site that lets people send emails to themselves and others years in the future (as little as three I think and thirty at most).  It’s a sort of technological time capsule and there are a host of similar "future" email sites popping up (lastwishes.org, Forbes.com ‘s email time ...

This looks interesting, so I am posting on the Church of the Customer Blog. Be sure to read down the blog for various entries. "Customer planning in 2006Right now, a lot of companies are putting together their plans for 2006. They’re setting stretch goals and brainstorming ideas for reaching new markets. Many of the people in the 2006 planning meetings ...