Archive for September, 2006

What can you say? Steve is an explosive guy: Hilarious. Credit where credit is due: I saw it on TUAW and Daring Fireball. steve jobs, apple, boom, stevenote, john koetsier
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Update: Technorati CEO Dave Sifry has responded in the comments. Thanks! Technorati board member and venture capitalist Ryan McIntyre is the only upper echelon person associated with Technorati who has even commented on the quality of service that Technorati has NOT been providing lately. Kudos. But why aren’t we hearing from Dave Sifry about...
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I’m currently reading through Jeremiah, a book in the old testament, in my (mostly) daily devotions.
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Sometimes context is not enough. Sometimes smart machines are really dumb. Want proof? Take a look at the Google AdSense ads on this post. It’s a post about a book by an online acquaintance about project management. And it happens to have the word forest in the title. Now, Google’s got some of the...
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I have a major apology to make to Timothy Johnson, author of Race Through the Forest: a Project Management Fable. We’ve linked to each other’s blogs before – he’s got some great management and business insights – and he sent me a copy of his book about a month and a half ago. Unfortunately,...
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At risk of stating the obvious, bizhack has a whole new look today. I wanted something simpler, something darker, and something a little more cutting-edge. Voila. The highlights: Web 2.0-ish look There is/isn’t a web 2.0. Yeah, I know. Web 2.0 has nothing to do with style or image. Yup, MySpace is proof of...
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I was chatting with our director of sales today when he mentioned that he was playing Xbox with his son last night. Now, he’s on the west coast – Bellingham, WA – and his son is back in Chicago. This is one of the key activities that brings them together. They both have Xboxes....
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Saw this quote on Guy Kawasaki’s blog today. Too good to pass up. Ambrose Bierce, in The Devil’s Dictionary: War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography. Ouch! war, america, geograpy
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You’ve got a new product. How do you get bloggers to review it positively? Call it a beta Even if you think your widget is really, really good, tell bloggers that you’re still in testing, but wanted some early feedback. That way, if they find something that you didn’t know was wrong with it,...
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All the everlasting Apple iPhone rumors have me in a constant state of unsatiated geek lust. What’s worse is that I need a new phone … and the iPhone isn’t rumored to be arriving until next year. Maybe this is the next-best thing: From the website: Loaded Camera – 2 megapixel, 4x digital zoom,...
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This past week has been crazy busy as I’m partnering with another senior manager at work to re-engineer a major department. (Hence the lack of updates.) Also, I’m getting closer to pulling the trigger on a personal start-up. More details when I have them. sparkplug9, blogging, john koetsier
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Saw this link to the 10 occupations in the US with the top growth rates over the next decade on popurls. Retail salespersons Registered nurses Postsecondary teachers Customer service representatives Janitors and cleaners Waiters and waitresses Food preparation and serving workers Home health aides Nursing aides, orderlies, and attendants General and operations managers Aside...
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My wife happened to notice this Foxtrot cartoon in yesterday’s Vancouver Sun: I wonder if there’s a million people, worldwide, who know what the heck “web 2.0″ means. (Incidentally, that’s the first time in about 3 years we’ve had a major daily paper in our home.) web 2.0, foxtrot, vancouver sun, john koetsier...
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I swear, Apple Legal does its level best every single day to do whatever it can in every way to do the maximum possible damage to Apple Computers Inc. How can ostensibly smart people – I mean, they passed the bar, right – be so absolutely, abysmally, galactically stupid? Now they want to take...
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Since Google lost the crazy newspaper lawsuit brought by Belgian papers that didn’t want free links and free traffic being sent their way by Google News, the Belgian courts have decreed that it has to put the text of the ruling on its Belgian site. It’s a google desecration. As TechDirt says, so much...
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