Posts by Carol Ross
What Happened Before Blogs?
In the Boulder County Business Report, a local paper, the current issue lists bloggers in the area. (No, I wasn’t on the list, although I do have a higher number of average visitors per day than others on the list. Hey, you can’t be everywhere all the time.) One of the blogger names caught my…
Read MoreHiring Good People
Dan Pink’s blog pointed me to a well-written posting from Marc Andreessen, founder of Netscape and one of the guys who figured out how to make the Internet alot more usable with a web browser (Mosaic). For many of us, who spend alot of time using the Internet, this is like the Edison inventing the…
Read MoreUpdate on Wascally Wabbits
Last year about this time, I blogged about my problem with rabbits in my backyard. The rabbits seemed to have moved to the front yard and while they are a nuisance, I see them more in my neighbor’s yard than mine. I’m not the only one that thinks rabbits are a nuisance. People are Googling…
Read MoreGrand Gestures
I read in a travel magazine about Rory Stewart, author of the book, The Places in Between. The book describes his 600-mile walk across Afghanistan in 2002, right after the fall of the Taliban. He’s told by an Afghan when entering the country, "You are the first tourist in Afghanistan. It is mid-winter. There are…
Read MoreCircus vs. Art
A great quote from George Lucas, when asked at the D: All Things Digital conference what he thought about Internet video: "There are two forms of entertaining. Circus is random. And voyeuristic. It’s basically what you see on YouTube now. I call it feeding Christians to the lions. The movie term is throwing puppies on…
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