Feb

28

No man is an island — except Dubya

February 28, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Here’s my Quote of the Day (well, so far … it’s still early), from Dan Froomkin’s Washington Briefing, quoting Time’s Joe Klein:
Columnist Joe Klein writes, also in Time: ” ‘The media are wondering what ever happened to the Bushies’ political antennae,’ a prominent Republican told me. ‘They don’t have antennae. They just have a transmitter […]

Feb

27

Value proposition

February 27, 2006 | Leave a Comment

Anita Campbell is writing today about the two-pronged business strategy of giving away stuff for free in order to garner attention, penetrate a market, or develop a community followed by charging for stuff.
It resonated for me because of my experiences with The MicroEnterprise Journal. When I started writing the Journal’s predecessor back in 1999, it […]

Feb

27

Deadbeats? We don’t got no stinkin’ deadbeats!

February 27, 2006 | 1 Comment

Well, wouldja lookit that!
There’s been a report released by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys that analyzes the new bankruptcy scenario, the first such study since Congress gave the credit card companies that early Christmas present with the new bankruptcy laws.
Turns out that all those deadbeats the retailers and credit card companies were complaining […]

Feb

24

The U.S. economy - WTF?

February 24, 2006 | 1 Comment


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