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Archive for May, 2007

29 May

Wish Verizon IOBI would get a clue

Use your product before selling it. Please!
Verizon’s IOBI service sounds nice: manage your phones from your web browser. It’s kind of cool. But they screwed up royally. The product likely cost tens if not hundreds of millions to roll out, and it’s clear no one bothered to try using it.
IOBI lets you change your call [...]

20 May

Productivity has limits!

Last night at my birthday party, a friend told me how his company insists he show up at work before 9 to make sure everyone’s productive. It seems we’re always trying to increase productivity. But this isn’t sustainable.
You see, productivity has its limits. Period. A woman can’t have a baby in six months by trying [...]

02 May

Propoganda, by any other name, is still as manipulative

As I write this, CNN is announcing that the U.S. Military is now posting “unfiltered” videos on YouTube, to show what it’s really like on the ground in Iraq.
In the five minutes I watched the segment, every one of the videos showed uniformed servicemen playing with kids, shooting hoops, and giving presents to grateful families. [...]

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