Business Logs

Take a moment to think of all the great people you’ve known. Family. Friends. Teachers. Classmates. Coworkers. Clients. Within moments, you can bring up vivid memories of hundreds, probably thousands of people you’ve met over the years. You can see their face. You can hear their voice. [...]

Matt Asay just wrote an article about how his Blackberry recently died and he picked up an iPhone after quickly comparing it to the latest RIM offering.
“My reason was simple: I needed something that would sync consistently with my Mac. My Blackberry-to-Mac sync has been hit or miss for the past year (though I’ve been [...]

After a long and tumultuous struggle between Nick from Think Secret and Apple, they’ve resolved their issues and Think Secret will be publishing no longer.
This is especially interesting to me because I’ve been a reader of Think Secret for many years, essentially since the site started, and followed the lawsuit from its genesis to now. [...]

A couple years ago, Elliot Back took the initiative to survey 33,000+ blogs to discover the most common words used in blog titles. While the blogosphere has evolved somewhat in recent years, his results are still fully relevant when searching for a name for your new blog.
Because your goal should be to differentiate [...]

I had a conversation a few days ago with a potential client who indicated that they were interested in “trying out” blogging to see if it would boost their business.
Sounds reasonable, right?
The problem is that blogging, by its nature, isn’t the kind of thing that works well in short-term trials. Blogging is [...]

Lots of talk about blogging in the media recently. Here are some recent articles that caught my eye:
Blogging on City Time Interests Taxpayers
“In this day and age of instant electronic communication, any elected official ignores blogs at his own peril because rumors could get started, false information could get disseminated very quickly…”
Copeland stopped from blogging
“Police [...]

BusinessWeek recently featured an article entitled “Bloggers Bring in the Big Bucks” (along with an accompanying slideshow presentation) which provides some insights into how much revenue the top blogs can generate:
“Advertisers come to me because I get a lot of traffic. I get a lot of traffic because I work hard,” says Mario Lavandeira, Perez [...]

The almost-famous John Dvorak has written an article titled Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone which is almost as insightful as the guy on the corner screaming the world will end. His argument is this:

The iPhone hype is so intense that there is no way Apple could possibly deliver on what fanboys [...]

I do believe it’s a first for Apple, Inc. but Steve Jobs just delivered a keynote where a new product was announced that had absolutely everything in it that people were rumoring about. The Apple iPhone. Does it have a nice, big screen? Yes. How about Wifi and Bluetooth? Yes. Plays video [...]

By now you’ve probably read all the rumored specs on this mysterious Apple cellular device: Bluetooth, Wifi, high resolution screen, touchscreen, slide out keyboard, 14 years battery life, blah, blah, etc. The bottom line is that everyone wants this phone to everything that other phones don’t do, or at least don’t do well. The [...]