Spending or Revenue - What’s the Problem with California’s Government

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have long wanted to see some benchmarking about state spending and taxes.  Does California spend more or less than other states?  What do we spend our money on and how does it compare to other states?  In business […]

Kobe’s stunt is stupid and irresponsible

Kobe jumps over a speeding car - amazing, but stupid and irresponsible for someone with his fan base. Even if it’s fake, which it probably is, how many kids see if they can do it too and get hurt or worse trying? One dead kid and all the laughing will stop.

Protect positive, hard working people from the slackers

Jason Calacanis started an interesting debate about keeping costs down in a startup. One of his points was to fire people who were not workaholics, later changed to fire people who don’t love their work.
Fire people who are not workaholics. don’t love their work… come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a […]

We Are The Ultimate Teflon Candidate

TechPresident has an excellent set of observations about the brand building happening with the Obama campaign. In The Marketing of the President 2008 - they point out that the focus is not so much on Obama as it is on Hope and Change.
The Obama campaign is not selling Obama. It is not selling a […]

This is becoming a movement


We are the ones we have been waiting for!

Barack Obama may have tied Hillary Clinton in the votes and in the delegate count, but it seems to me that is a victory for his campaign. He had a great line in his speech that played to the idea that it’s not him, but us:
We are the ones we have been waiting for!
Powerful […]

Must have toy!


News of podcasting’s death has been greatly debated

It always amazes me how much time people have for arguing about whether podcasting is dead. The news that Wizzard had achieved an amazing 1 billion podcast downloads, provoked a post over at Mashable called The Problem with Podcasting Isn’t Downloads. The point of that post was that getting paid for podcasting via advertising […]

Long Lead Times - Another Reason Why Old Media is Losing to New Media

Parade Magazine, which may be the leading news publication for many, ran today with a cover story of their interview with Benazir Bhuto. The problem was it ran as if she were alive and had not been killed by a terrorist attack 10 days ago. For the many Americans who probably don’t pay […]

Obama’s Victory Speech - His gift of display

Barrack Obama not only won the Iowa caucus, he won the speech competition as well. He delivers one of the best speeches I’ve heard in a long time. The delivery and message are powerfully delivered. Unity, hope, possibility all delivered with an amazing dose of charisma.
This will be an election worth watching.

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