Here is my first pre­dic­tion for 2010: Mobil­ity is the new buzz­word. Apple may have just ensured this, based on cred­i­ble reports of a mobility-themed prod­uct event on Jan­u­ary 26th, when Apple is expected to announce a new tablet device which may be a game-changer for print-media con­sump­tion, espe­cially news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. [1] Like­wise, Smartphone […]

Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Sky
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A friend sent me this chain email today: Pro­posed Amend­ment #28 to the US Con­sti­tu­tion Con­gress shall make no law that applies to the cit­i­zens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Sen­a­tors and/or Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, and Con­gress shall make no law that applies to the Sen­a­tors and/or Rep­re­sen­ta­tives that does not apply […]

Posted on December 31st, 2009 by Sky
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I read this enlight­en­ing quote in a blog com­ment today: [1] It’s supremely stu­pid to dis­crim­i­nate, even unwit­tingly, against a group to which you will inevitably belong. It was just a ran­dom side-note to a larger dis­cus­sion about retail cus­tomer ser­vice. The con­text was about how younger com­puter sales­peo­ple some­times ignore older shop­pers, based on […]

Posted on October 23rd, 2009 by Sky
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This viral email arrived in my inbox today: Sub­ject: Fw: Shock­ing Fred Thomp­son Inter­view on Senior Health Care You will NOT believe your ears!!!! Send this to all of your friends and rel­a­tives!!!! If you are over 65 and sick with a seri­ous life threat­en­ing ill­ness, your life is worth very lit­tle under this new health […]

Posted on July 30th, 2009 by Sky
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Last week, long­time Doones­bury reporter Roland Hed­ley made the stun­ning announce­ment that he is now twit­ter­ing, er tweet­ing. In the process, Hed­ley may have just revealed him­self as cre­ator Garry Trudeau’s alter ego. While I’m always amazed by the poignant cur­rency of Doones­bury, Twit­ter strikes me as the per­fect medium for Trudeau’s fast-paced mus­ings, and […]

Posted on July 24th, 2009 by Sky
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A good friend who lives in Cleve­land sent me this link [1] to a recent New York Times photo essay on the eco­nomic real­i­ties in Michi­gan. I’ve received his per­mis­sion to print his thought­ful email to me in its entirety: Almost any photo frame from Michi­gan can be found here in Ohio. For many today there […]

Posted on February 19th, 2009 by Sky
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“We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scrip­ture, the time has come to set aside child­ish things… And to those nations like ours that enjoy rel­a­tive plenty, we say we can no longer afford indif­fer­ence to suf­fer­ing out­side our bor­ders; nor can we con­sume the world’s resources with­out regard to effect. For […]

Posted on January 20th, 2009 by Sky
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The lead story in this morning’s Seat­tle Post-Intellignecer opens with this obser­va­tion: Barack Obama’s pres­i­den­tial win held a poignant sig­nif­i­cance for lib­eral Seat­tleites: This is their Amer­ica, too. The feel­ing was evi­dent in jubi­lant par­ty­ing in the streets, in quiet moments of reflec­tion and in blos­soms of red, white and blue. With new­found patri­o­tism, Seattleites […]

Posted on November 7th, 2008 by Sky
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