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Assert Authority

You Frost My Ass, Kellogg’s!

I have a problem.  I was taught grammar, and required to memorize my vocabulary lists.  Yes, I had to create sentence diagrams as a child.  Feel free to observe, as many have, that all that teaching was a waste. This has had one lasting side effect.  When I hear things like television advertisements, I sometimes [...]

The Strain that will cause The Next Web Pandemic: IM#1

I had the great honor to work with Irving Wladawsky-Berger while I was at IBM about 12 years ago.  He is one of the clearest thinkers I have had the good fortune to know.  Thus, no surprise, he was at the heart of many strategic initiatives, arguably projects which saved IBM from near-ruin back in [...]

We are the Stewards of our Online Personae

I haven’t posted in quite a while; which is always a sign that lots is going on of the kind that offsets future tuition obligations, which for the next few years of my life is a good thing. So what awoke me from my social publishing slumber?  As is often the case, it was a [...]