words written down

This blog is all about words because they matter, they influence, they entertain and when you put them down on a page in a meaningful order, they acquire permanence. Contained here is my writing over the past 10+ years, primarily book reviews over the past ~5 years, and I also have a book review podcast, Talking Nonfiction, available on Apple or Spotify.

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Urban Meyer Follow-up from S.L. Price on CNNSI

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Back in December, I did a blog post titled Urban Meyer SI Profile by S.L. Price which linked to an in-depth Sports Illustrated article on...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

Haiti Earthquake Writing from Time & CNN

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Couple of really powerful pieces on the Haiti earthquake . From the Time Magazine Feb 1 issue (which isn't actually the cover above, bu...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Apple vs. Google, Zappos, & Salesforce.com BusinessWeek Pieces

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Interesting cover story in the Jan 25 issue of BusinessWeek . Titled "Apple vs. Google" , the piece is about... well, that, and de...
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Social Media... What a Place to Be!(?)

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For companies today, hopefully it’s “Social Media… What a place to be!” Occasionally instead it’s “Social Media… What a place to be?” More o...

Ashton Kutcher: New Media Baron - from Fast Company

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Pretty interesting cover story from the Dec 2009/Jan 2010 issue Fast Company Magazine. Written by Ellen McGirt "Mr. Social: Ashton Ku...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Esquire Piece on Barack Obama... & Other Stuff

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Really interesting story titled "Barack Obama: Papa in Chief" from the latest issue of Esquire . Written by Tom Junod , it relate...
Monday, January 18, 2010

"Ford County" by John Grisham - Book Review

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Finished reading "Ford County" by John Grisham and found it to be a fairly enjoyable book. It's the author's first colle...
Sunday, January 17, 2010

BusinessWeek Pieces - Apple Tablet & Other Tech Products

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Very interested in what Apple may (or may not) announce as a new product entry in the computer tablet/reader category. Apparently I'm ...
Saturday, January 16, 2010

BusinessWeek Economy & Housing Pieces

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From the last few BusinessWeek issues there's been some interesting pieces around the related topics of the economy and housing. From t...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Boise State RB Ian Johnson Profile & Sports Media Coverage from Sports Illustrated

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The December 28 issue of Sports Illustrated was one of those magazine issues that works on multiple levels... had great content and a lot o...
Saturday, January 09, 2010

Book Review - "What the Dog Saw" by Malcolm Gladwell

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Finished reading "What the Dog Saw" from Malcolm Gladwell and found it to be a really interesting read. Gladwell is a solid writ...
Thursday, January 07, 2010

Book Review - "Trust Agents" by Chris Brogan & Julien Smith

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Finished reading "Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust" and found it to be a solid ...
Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Best Time Magazine Writing: Politics & The Economy

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After publishing posts last month with my favorite articles from Esquire & Sports Illustrated and then great BusinessWeek and Fast Co...
Monday, January 04, 2010

Workplace Culture Blog Posts

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Last month I did a blog post with the business topics most frequently covered here and within those topics, have now aggregated posts done ...
Saturday, January 02, 2010

Book Review - "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown

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Finished reading the Dan Brown blockbuster novel "The Lost Symbol" and found it to be... fairly entertaining. Didn't like it...

Attempted Airline Terrorism Story From Time

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Interesting (and disconcerting) cover story from the latest issue of Time Magazine . Titled "What We Can Learn from Flight 253" , ...
Thursday, December 31, 2009

Sports Illustrated Picks for Best Writing of Decade

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From the same Sports Illustrated issue that had the Wish of a Lifetime piece I posted on came a very interesting sidebar piece. What stood...

Wish of a Lifetime Piece from Sports Illustrated

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Great Point After piece from Selena Roberts (who I can't help but view fondly after she revealed Alex Rodriguez as a steroid user) in t...
Monday, December 28, 2009

Best Buy Articles in BusinessWeek

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Couple of interesting pieces on electronics retailer Best Buy from BusinessWeek . The first was from the start of December and titled ...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

"Superfreakonomics" by Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner - Book Review

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Recently finished "Superfreakonomics" by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner and found it to be a fast read... with some very inte...
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