I was trying to explain Foursquare to someone this morning. The issue on which we got focused was not so much is it a game or is it a social utility (It’s a floor wax! It’s a dessert topping! – if you don’t get that, search Shimmer Floor Wax). The issue we kept discussing was privacy. In fact the discussion expanded into a broader one inclusive of Facebook, Twitter, and most other social media and I had a thought I’d like to share. Continue reading
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Fall Is For Football
I was driving back to the office yesterday and passed the Little League fields here in town. It was late on a beautiful fall afternoon and there were a couple of games going on. I’m guessing the kids were somewhere around 10 or 11 and from the looks of their uniforms they had been playing for a bit.
I had an immediate reaction to this and it probably wasn’t what you’d expect. Oh sure, I think it’s great that they were outside and playing instead of vegging out in front of the TV or video game. But I found it kind of disturbing and it kicked off a business thought as well. Let me explain. Continue reading
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Tom Brady’s Day
I sometimes watch the news as I work (no sound) and saw the following roll across the news ticker: “Tom Brady involved in car wreck, gets new contract.” Sounds like he had a busy day, right? But what is kind of funny and disturbing is that one has nothing to do with the other yet some folks might actually read it as if they are connected. I mean, it happens in business all the time right?
I guess I could use this as a jumping off point to talk about people receiving credit for things which don’t warrant the rewards (or, to the headline’s point, new contracts for being involved in wrecks). Instead, I’d rather just have a giggle about the dope who wrote the ticker headline in the first place. He’s clearly sitting in the same office as the over-possessive person that keeps adding apostrophes to everything plural. I won’t bore you (again) with a rant on this – get yourself a copy of Eats, Shoots, & Leaves which rants about it far better than I. However, I will remind us all to remember that spell-checkers don’t give you the ability to forgo careful reading of your work both from a grammatic and semantic point of view. Are you saying what you think you are?
Or maybe you’re thinking if your writing is a car wreck you can get a better contract!
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