Paul Mirengoff’s comments on Joe Biden’s Iraq strategy: Power Line: Clueless Joe: “What we have in Iraq is an armed conflict, not a government program. In this context, timetables and schedules should not dictate events; rather events must dictate timing. But this reality is beyond the comprehension of clueless Joe Biden and most of his [...]
Amazon.com has long been a leader in customer participation among retail web sites. If you haven’t been to Amazon in a while, take a quick look at the page for Freakonomics to get a feel for what Amazon is doing now. Product pages include tons of user contributed information, including: Customer Reviews Customer Ratings Ratings [...]
Corporate mergers have many challenges, including standardizing on a domain name. A few missed steps in the transition can hurt a brand, and cost a sight some hard-earned and well-deserved traffic. After Sprint’s merger with Nextel, Sprint has been working on consolidating all services on the Sprint brand and domain name, www.sprint.com. Good choice. However, [...]
Are you a bargain shopper who takes advantage of the deals offered by retailers on the day after Thanksgiving? This year, consider skipping the dark parking lots. Instead, stay at home and get the same deals online. Many major retailers are offering the same deals on their web sites, so you can avoid pulling a [...]
I recently returned from a conference where I received cards from dozens of attendees. Upon returning, I sent a thank you email to each person I met using the email addresses on their business cards. To my surprise, over 8% of the emails I sent bounced! I verified each bounced email to make sure I [...]
I don’t think Dilbert’s had to deal with anything like this yet: St. Paul teachers who plug in told to pay up: “In an effort to cut soaring energy costs, the St. Paul School District is asking employees who have their own ‘personal appliances’ to get rid of them. Or, if they must keep them, [...]
IMG_3622 Originally uploaded by TwoCrabs. What have we accomplished?
Our president thinks democracy should be spread by bombing the press? : “PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a ‘Top Secret’ No 10 memo reveals. But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash. A [...]
Google recently finished the integration and rebranding of Urchin as Google Analytics. This included changing the pricing from a monthly subscription to free. However, there have been some costs for loyal Urchin subscribers: 1. The reports have been painfully slow to update. As of this writing, the data is 22 hours behind. While it’s interesting [...]
Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty made some news during the Vote for Change tour due to his conflicting love for Bruce Springsteen and his own political ideology. Now we have Scott Johnson over at Powerline Blog fawning over Neil Young, who performed with Bruce on that tour, including the stop at the Xcel Energy Center in [...]
