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Poise

Galarraga has just replace Jack Morris as my favorite pitcher of all time. I think Ken nailed it: “The baseball gods could have given us a perfect game, instead they gave us something even more beautiful”. If you have a few minutes, it is worth reading Posnanski’s full post. Beautifully written. As soon as Joyce made [...]

Have a respectable brand

“You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand?  Have a respectable brand.” http://streetgiant.com/2010/06/02/leroy-stick-the-man-behind-bpglobalpr/

Started with the iPad

From Job’s session at the D8 conference: “I’ll tell you a secret. It began with the tablet. I had this idea about having a glass display, a multitouch display you could type on with your fingers. I asked our people about it. And six months later, they came back with this amazing display. And I [...]

SCOTT JOHNSTON’s stay at “Property Name”

Classic email from Starwood after staying at the W. Glad to hear my opinion is the future of their brand. Dear SCOTT JOHNSTON, WHERE YOUR OPINION IS THE FUTURE OF OUR BRAND Thank you for the reservation that was recently made at our Starwood hotel and for your stay at “Property Name” ending on “Display [...]

QSB

I’ve been using the Quick Search Box for the mac (QSB) now for three months, and I can’t recommend it enough. Like Quicksilver, it changes the way you interact with your computer. Instead of browsing for information, you simply search. It is liberating in the same way gmail is — you no longer spend time [...]

Please teach them to fish

jhuber pointed me at this post. There are lots of possible reactions to this teachers email (as the post and comments demonstrate). But I think most of them miss the point. The problem here isn’t Microsoft. It isn’t about how many features Linux has or doesn’t have. It isn’t about the distribution of Windows or [...]

Leadership

We went to a benefit last night for Leadership High School, a charter school in San Francisco. When is the last time you heard about a high school with a documented academic philosophy? When is the last time you heard about a high school that requires it’s students to have demonstrated social responsibility, personal responsibility, [...]

So much talk

This week music companies announced a partnership with MySpace to offer a music download service. I have to believe that most of the articles written simply copied the press release because nobody seemed to have asked even the most basic question: “when?” Or even better, “Haven’t you announced something like this before? That didn’t seem [...]

FriendFeed, first impresssions

I got a chance to check out FriendFeed this morning while Niko was watching Sesame Street and was really impressed. I was up and running with a consolidated feed of: Twitter Two blogs Netflix Google Talk status Flickr photos Picasa Web photos Google Reader shared items I also hooked up LinkedIn and Facebook but I’m [...]

U and Me

I’m in Ann Arbor talking to small businesses about Google Apps (see AA Business Review). Yesterday we went to the Michigan/BC basketball game. I saw (from afar) my 7th grade social studies teach, Mike Madison. I remember the first day of class he told us we would have a test on US states the next [...]