Something Rick Schwier, my grad advisor and fellow posse member said years ago that stuck with me. Education doesn’t do a very good job of documenting or discussing failures. Howard Schultz, chairman of Starbucks recently sent out a memo admitting mistakes he has made in the directing his company. …I have provided you with a list of some of the underlying...

Fuzzy Zoeller is perhaps best known for his racist remarks made during the 1997 Masters golf tournament when he made some derogatory remarks about Tiger Woods. He claimed he was misunderstood. Tiger forgave him but the comments made haunt Fuzzy. Now Fuzzy is upset because of some comments made on wikipedia. He wants to sue. Fuzzy and his lawyers don’t seem to...

A Canadian music company, Puretracks, is making the move to eliminate DRM from some of their music. Full story. For most of us, this is a major step in allowing consumers to use our music however we wish. The BareNaked Ladies have been long advocating this move. After spending countless hours trying to figure out how to get itunes music/books in other formats, this...

I picked up a copy of the local paper to see my son on the cover…Full name, clearly identified. Did he give permission to have the photograph published? No. Newspapers have a policy that they must print full names of anyone photographed. They’ve been doing it for years. Our schools meanwhile try desperately to protect students from any chance of...

These are the future, my friends. They’re here and living among us. They’re not very interested in us, and I’m not sure I blame them. The best we can hope for is that one day they may keep us as pets. This article via David Warlick via Ewan is dealing more with the irrelevance of today’s newspapers but substitute the word newspaper for school...

Now we have a wiki. Google has acquired Jotspot. I’ve been enjoying Docs and Spreadsheets, not to mention my Calendar, now my wiki’s all in one place….whatever happend to small pieces loosely joined? They’re tightening up! Read the full...