Friday, August 29, 2008

Blog Post Topics So Far

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In an effort to understand fully what I'm trying to do with this blog in terms of content, I've listed below the topics posted on th...

Like To Write Stuff: Why & How Thus Far

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This post will have a decidedly different bent than prior ones, but there's some things that will be a benefit for myself as the author ...
Thursday, August 28, 2008

Customer Service: The Good, Bad & Ugly

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In a May 2008 special report (which was also it's cover story), BusinessWeek published a series of articles on customer service. It...
Wednesday, August 27, 2008

"A Sense of the World" by Jason Roberts

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In "A Sense of the World" , a narrative nonfiction account of blind traveler James Holman , author Jason Roberts provides a fasci...
Tuesday, August 26, 2008

My Fancy New iPhone

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After pining for one since first hearing word of it's release, I picked up my new 3G iPhone last week (As this photo essay from Time Ma...
Sunday, August 24, 2008

Prefabtastic: The Rise of the Prefabricated Home

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"Home Thoughts" from the August 25, 2008 issue of Time Magazine chronicles a prefab home exhibition currently showing at the New ...
Friday, August 22, 2008

More Great Chris Jones Writing From Esquire

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The first "official" (non-list) post to this blog was about Chris Jones who writes (I believe) primarily for Esquire Magazine. Tit...
Thursday, August 21, 2008

"Chill-Inducing Olympic Moments" from Esquire blog

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From the Esquire Magazine website , writer Daniel Murphy in the "Blog of Lists" provides his "Five Most Chill-Inducing Olymp...
Wednesday, August 20, 2008

"Politics Lost" & other writings by Joe Klein

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Time Magazine writer Joe Klein may be best known for being the "Anonymous" author of "Primary Colors" (a fictionalized...
Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Michael Vick's Financial Woes: Buzzards Circle the Pro Athlete

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Never would I be a Michael Vick apologist, but Lester Munson's "Bad advice, bad decisions: the loss of Michael Vick's fortune...
Monday, August 18, 2008

Jeff Skoll... Participant Media & Skoll Foundation

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I first came across Jeff Skoll in a December 21, 2003 BusinessWeek interview titled "Jeffrey Skoll: Why Delay? Give It Away" . Th...
Sunday, August 17, 2008

"The Blind Side", "Moneyball" & "The New New Thing" by Michael Lewis

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It doesn't seem terribly frequent that you come across a non-fiction writer whose books cover a broad range of subjects... well. Berkele...
Friday, August 15, 2008

Fast Company Magazine - Sept 2008: Clorox & the Sierra Club... and other stuff of note

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Some interesting stuff from the Sept 2008 issue of Fast Company Magazine ... Headlining these was a fairly large piece titled "Cleaning...

Marketing of "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

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I previously wrote about Stephenie Meyer as now being one of the "blockbuster writers" and have now come across an interesting ar...
Thursday, August 14, 2008

"The Art of Racing in the Rain" by Garth Stein

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In his book "The Art of Racing in the Rain" , Seattle author Garth Stein weaves a fantastic tale narrated through the inner voice...
Tuesday, August 12, 2008

"Against the Gods" by Peter Bernstein

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There are a great number of financial sages to be found in print and one of those with an extremely long track record of solid investment wi...
Monday, August 11, 2008

2008 Beijing Summer Olympics: Men's 4x100 Freestyle Relay

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Amazing victory by the US men's 4x100 freestyle relay team with anchor-leg swimmer Jason Lezak overcoming a huge deficit against a quali...
Saturday, August 09, 2008

2008 Beijing Olympics Opening Ceremony

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After great anticipation of the event, the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympics were in a word... breathtaking. This probably s...
Thursday, August 07, 2008

"A Few Seconds of Panic" by Stefan Fatsis

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In his book "A Few Seconds of Panic" , Wall Street Journal writer Stefan Fatsis gives an extremely interesting account of his tra...
Monday, August 04, 2008

"Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer, "The Innocent Man" by John Grisham and... J.K. Rowling

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Whereas the last post was about a process of writing (specifically writing while holding a different job), I thought it would be interesting...