Connecting the dots of life and business

Yesterday, I was in a local business and saw this old school calendar on the desk. Actually, they had one on each desk. None of them had a sign of use in 2007. I immediately made the connection of how long it takes to change human behavior patterns. We didn’t just wake up one day [...]

I mentioned in this site’s first post I’m not new to blogging (just going hard again on a personal blog). My business partner is a top 3,000 blogger and I’ve started two group blogs (More Than Derby- Louisville, Kentucky’s first city blog and co-founded Outside the Valley a web 2.0 review blog). But quickly, I [...]

Do students raise their hands like the pic at left when a teacher asks the class a question? Not the classes I attended. After reading Aleksei Miheev’s post about the skewed participation percentages in web communities, I realized it’s very similar to the percentage of classroom volunteers. Here are a few snippets of his post. [...]

Gauging someone’s popularity in school was measurable by your spot in the lunchroom. Online, we have several metrics to see where we sit in the blogsphere. I’m currently in the corner with my stromboli and chocolate milk. I know it, I’m fine with it, but I’m not staying here forever. I want to move closer [...]

Rarely, do I come to the defense of my local newspaper, the Courier Journal, but one of their sports bloggers was kicked out of press row during a NCAA post-season baseball game. According to Brian Bennett, the Gannett-hired blogger received a memo on Friday stating the following (my bold added): Since blogs are considered a [...]