January 2009
13 posts
EdBarr on Communication →
My writing & strategy professor from Carnegie Mellon has decided to start a blog. This is a must read.
“[Rolls-Royce] has deliberately blurred the lines between making things and...”
– Britain’s lonely high-flier
Going forward more companies are going to have to realize they need to do the same thing, retool their business plan and their workforce.
“[A] wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one...”
– Thomas Jefferson
Google Reader Wish List
At first I shunned RSS readers preferring to see the site and content “as it was intended.” That quickly changed when I realized I was missing tons of content and never ventured to blogs just sticking to the “top” websites which meant news sites such as The Wall Street Journal and CNet. After almost two years of using Google Reader I have noticed a tons of improvements such as trends, the...
“[W]e gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over...”
– President Barack Obama
Though I don’t agree with everything he stands for or advocates, I hope that he will lead the country and his party with honor and dignity.
“Mayor Luke Ravenstahl, 28, the Burg’s wunderkind without the wunder”
– Jerry Bowyer, Sports Mania Is a Poor Substitute for Economic Success
“Thinking about information overload isn’t accurately describing the...”
– Clay Shirky, It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.
Asking the Right Question
More so than before I’ve gotten sucked into my Google Reader feed and following Hacker News adding more blogs, newspapers and commentary sites into the mix. This influx has caused a noticeable change in the way I view things, be it technology, technology reporting or reporting in general. After a conversation with my father in regard to how much I have read or want to read (in terms of...
“I would not want you to get swelled up like one of those frogs that sucks in air...”
– Joseph Reynolds
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of...”
– Dr. Adrian Rogers , 1931 to 2005
Politics
The other night I watched The Candidate, a 1972 film where a candidate for the US Senate with absolutely no chance of winning, wins (sound familiar?).
I’m not the first to suggest similarities of Obama and Bill McKay, the candidate played by Robert Redford, but the similarities aren’t so much around the story, as they are around politics of the 1970’s and the politics of today. ...