Good Things (iPhone) Come Cheaper to Those Who Wait
For the past year, my cell phone service has been on a month to month basis, as my contract ran out last August and Verizon Wireless eliminated the plan I was under. Since I didn’t want a cheaper/more expensive plan, I stayed in a month to month plan. Now, one year later, my decision has […]
The Streak is Over: Graduate Summer 2007 Grades – Umass Amherst
Four courses into my collegiate career at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, my Grade Point Average was a perfect 4.0! The grades for my graduate course, Perspectives on Leadership,were released a few days ago and, unfortunately, the dream of graduating with a 4.0 is officially over. It was a long and hard fought battle […]
The Second Glass & MAP Boston
Last week I attended the Boston Young Entrepreneur’s meeting at City Hall, where I met quite a few interesting people. Amongst the group was Tyler Balliet, CEO and Publisher of The Second Glass, an unpretentious wine magazine. For my Bostonian readers, you may recognize The Second Glass from the half-page article in the August 22nd […]
Ray Anderson: Personal, Corporate, Societal Leader
As Interface Carpets’ mission focuses on environmental sustainability, Ray Anderson’s leadership style shows evidence of both ethical and servant strategies. Since the environment is a resource shared by and endowed to all humans and life on earth, any company which disproportionately uses environmental resources for its own benefit, especially in a harmful manner, is acting […]
This Space for Sale
It’s surprising how many of the marketing methods utilized by advertisers from the Industrial Era and later are still used today. For instance, the concept of maintaining integrity of the medium at craigslist.org leads to a huge range of categories which contain and restrict the listings to defined spaces, similar to the column and type […]
Industrial Revolution Era Spammers
In the beginning stages of marketing in America, the media distributors were entities completely dissociated from advertising and worked to institute journalistic standards, which in turn limited the range of advertising and forced advertisers to focus on the content, not the delivery. Newspapers were the primary media of the time and worked to ensure each […]
Boston: Hub of the Blogiverse
That’s right Boston! We’re #1, again, in yet another area. First public high school, first college, first public transportation system and so on. Now we can add being the first city crowned bloggiest city by outside.in. We’re #1, baby! Sing it with me, we are the champions, no time for losers (Philadelphia) because we are […]
R.I.P. Joan “Superman” Duran
Yesterday afternoon, an instant message brought me news of a fallen soldier, a true hero who met an unfortunate end. According to the Boston Globe, Joan Duran of Boston was killed by a bomb during his second stint in Iraq. Joan is the first person I’ve known to have been killed in either the Iraq […]
The Baseball Tennis Mashup
To break up the mood from yesterday’s historically rage inciting post, check out this new sport (thanks John for the link). I’ve always wondered what would happen if baseball and tennis were combined…OK not really, but still that video is awesome, though I’m skeptical if it’s real. If it is, those kids got Tiger Woods […]
The Rise of Corporate Fascism in America
A successful American corporation relies on mutually beneficial relationships between multiple parties with a vested interest in the success of the corporation. These parties’ interests lie in three domains, capital, profit, and the public. A board of directors and one or more managers of the company perceive a right to manipulate the invested capital of […]