Monday, March 29, 2010

Ford Motor Cool Tech Story from Fast Company

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I wouldn't have had this view a few years ago, but if I were buying a car right now, me thinks I'd buy a Ford . Coming together Toyo...
Saturday, March 27, 2010

Time Magazine Cover Story on Jobs... & Job Ruminations

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Solid Time Magazine cover story by Barbara Kiviat titled "The Workforce: Where Will the New Jobs Come From?" . All about the eco...
Monday, March 22, 2010

NCAA Basketball Tourney SI Article

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Excellent piece from this week's Sports Illustrated on the NCAA Basketball Tournament . From Tim Layden , "High Stakes" is a...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

BusinessWeek Magazine: Mar 22/29 Issue

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Three articles of note I found in the latest issue of BusinessWeek ... all with a common theme that I'll call hubris about money. The mo...

"White Fang" by Jack London

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Recently finished "White Fang" by Jack London and found it to be a good read. Having previously used the "Classics" ap...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Author Websites

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Following up on the heels of my blog post on tags or labels noted , I wanted to create a new label category for posts with an "author w...
Friday, March 12, 2010

"Tom Hanks: Historian" Cover Story from Time

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Excellent cover story from the Mar 15 issue of Time Magazine . Titled "How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief" th...
Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Spring Training Stories from Time & CNNSI

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Man, I do so love this time of year in sports... You've got hockey starting to get really interesting leading into the NHL playoffs and...
Monday, March 08, 2010

BusinessWeek Career/Business Pieces - Mar 15 issue

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Some pretty interesting stuff from the Mar 15 issue of BusinessWeek ... much of it around a common theme. The first story that struck me as ...
Sunday, March 07, 2010

Fast Company Magazine - Feb 2010 issue

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Couple of things of interest of the Feb 2010 issue of Fast Company Magazine... The first was from the cover story on Phoenix Suns point gua...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Customer Service Rankings from BusinessWeek

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In what has now being an annual event, BusinessWeek in the Mar 1 issued published their "Special Report on Customer Service " . W...
Sunday, February 28, 2010

BusinessWeek Story on AT&T Problems

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Pretty interesting cover story on AT&T in the in the Feb 15 issue of BusinessWeek . The story is titled "AT&T's iPhone Mes...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

Politics Frozen Cover Story from Time

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A few interesting pieces in the Mar 1 issue of Time Magazine ... highlighted by "Why Washington Is Tied Up in Knots" by Peter Bei...
Friday, February 26, 2010

Sports Illustrated Pieces - Brian Burke & Defense in Baseball

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Two different stories that I really liked from this week's Sports Illustrated . The more impactful was "Man Of His Word" abou...
Monday, February 22, 2010

" Planet Google" by Randall Stross

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I've had the book out from the library for a while and finally got around to reading "Planet Google" by San Jose State Profe...
Sunday, February 21, 2010

Sports Ilustrated Pieces: Olympic Spirit & Bob Costas/Al Michaels

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Two different stories that struck me from the Feb 22 issue of Sports Illustrated . Starting off in this first SI issue since the Vancouver O...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Roger Ebert Profile from Esquire

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Great piece on Roger Ebert in the March 2010 issue of Esquire . From the frequently linked to in this blog Esquire writer Chris Jones , ...
Monday, February 15, 2010

Kennedy Writing from Esquire

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Really enjoyed the cover story from the Feb 2010 issue of Esquire Magazine. This was Esquire's annual "Meaning of Life" issu...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Jobs in Writing Books

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It really wouldn't be accurate to say that I've read them all the way through, but I skimmed the interesting (to me) parts of two di...
Tuesday, February 09, 2010

"Avatar"

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I've only posted once previously about a movie I've seen (that being this post about "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"...