Posts Tagged ‘opinion

The Leadership Barometer

In: smp

10 May 2005

Skip Angel has a great post describing the concept of a Leadership Barometer.
The Low Pressure description is a very accurate portrayal of management climates I have worked in. A number of managers I have seen in action, in a somewhat misguided attempt to keep us informed, tell the team about the battles they have lost, [...]

Hey PR and News Media Folks: What’s your opinion on Ballmer releasing this letter on a Friday?
Isn’t that the day when old, MSM PR firms tell you to release unfavourable news so it gets lost over the weekend?
Guess they haven’t heard about the 24/7/365 media…

The Dean of the School of Library and Information Sciences at Indiana University, Blaise Cronin, maintains an open mind about blogging. [here]
One wonders for whom these hapless souls blog. Why do they choose to expose their unremarkable opinions, sententious drivel and unedifying private lives to the potential gaze of total strangers? What prompts this particular [...]

Blogger Relations

In: smp

26 Apr 2005

I’m with Dave Winer on this concept…UGH!
Just remember: My thoughts and opinions can be bought for the low price of a 17″ Powerbook.
Roland thinks this will fade away…
Dan Gillmor points out that this IDI has been a paid shill for major telecoms in their fight against muniWiFi.
Hey! The Blog Herald points out that [...]

Scoble posts Ballmer’s memo.
That Microsoft has a legislative agenda scares me. That this bill wasn’t on it, and, as such, was then disowned by the company makes the scenario worse.
Steve Ballmer: You control the world’s wealthiest corporation. You say you are hardcore for diversity. Then you say:
It’s appropriate to invoke the company’s name on issues [...]

Kottke has a great summary of the links for the Adobomedia/Macrodobe story here.

In my opinion, this quote sums up what is wrong with this merger.
The combination of Adobe and Macromedia strengthens our mission of helping people and organizations communicate better. Through the combination of our powerful development, authoring and collaboration tools – and the complementary [...]

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Primary Source Verification of Brault Testimony.

GOMERY LINK BONANZA!
Link removed from origin site due to threat of legal action [...]

Lots of inward-looking thoughts from some of the VC blogs that I read.
Jeff Nolan flames alarm:clock for claiming that VCs are greedy, soulless vampires [my paraphrasing].
A VC and Brad Feld comment on Paul Graham’s Essay, “A Unified Theory of VC Suckage”.
I wonder why so much attention is now being focused on the VC community? I [...]

A response to the FEC chairman’s C|Net interview, which I commented on yesterday.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Press Contact: Mark Glaze
202-271-0982
Statement of the Campaign Legal Center
Setting the Record Straight: There is No FEC Threat to the Internet
Washington, D.C. — In a [...]

John Robb, one of the founders of the fine company that I work for, agrees with my opinion that Auto-Link is the final crack in Google’s “Do no evil” facade. [here]
It is also an issue that could see MSFT come out and stomp Google into a googol of tiny pieces.


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