MEN GIVE UP FIRST

This post has been in draft mode for the past 24 hours while I published the latest issue of WordBiz Report. In other words, I started to post a note about a new survey by Perseus. I stopped because I wasn’t quite finished writing. And saved it as a draft. . The...

EMAIL IS SLIPPERY

I love this article by Dave Gelerntner in the 29 Sept 03 issue of The Weekly Standard, although I’m not sure I agree. “Is (email) good or bad for the art of writing? Both. It devalues the written word; email is so fast and easy to send, correspondents...

ZERO SUM EMAIL

A new email marketing study by Quris says that consumers can’t engage in more than 10 – 20 email relationships at a time. If your company is not in this “trusted inner circle” whose emails are being read, you’re outta luck. I suspect the...

MY SON IS A BLOGGER

Is it bragging when you mention your children’s blogs? I dunno. But it can’t be that common… yet. My son just moved to Japan for a year to teach English. He has a blog. I think it’s great. Read his 23-year-old musings on Japanese culture at...

MENTAL SPACE

When our power went out last Friday after Hurricane Isabel swept through Washington DC I was pleasantly surprised by the peace and quiet in my office… No electricity, no computer, no electronic files, no online access, no email, no spam. I could think and work...