Month: January 2005

You ever see a phrase pop up overnight — suddenly it’s everywhere, you have no idea what it means? For me it was last week and it was “the long tail”. I saw it in blogs, I saw it in at least one news item, and someone even referenced it on a phone call. “The…

Father Tim Butler was the priest in my diocese (St. Elizabeth’s) growing up in Acton, Massachusetts. He was also in the Air Force Reserves, and sometime after I graduated from high school, he went active duty and started traveling the world as a chaplain in the Air Force. When my wife and I got married…

Went downtown last night to see Spamalot with a group of friends. For those that don’t know, Spamalot is the musical Eric Idle adapted (or, as he says, lovingly ripped off) from The Holy Grail. It stars David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry, and Hank Azaria in various lead roles, but for me the highlight of…

I’ve really been enjoying Engadget’s CES coverage this week, and this post made me laugh out loud: Of course that means that once you get an HD-DVD player and the accompanying receiver, you’ll need enough cable to wrap around the earth’s circumference just to wire a single room. Buy stock in Monster Cable. They’re referring…

If you haven’t stopped by The So-Called “Austin Mayor” Blog lately, you’re missing some great writing. Just today, there was the pointer to what may be the most remarkable “We regret the omission” in the history of journalism, a link to the Democratic Underground (further proof that we have just as many nuts on the…

Couple years back, I wrote about Marc Chandler’s presentation at the CIO Forum, where he talked about how firms had to adopt technology quickly if they expected to compete for Cisco’s business; more recently, Ernie and Dennis (among others) pointed out that Laura Owen, Cisco’s director of worldwide legal services, wrote at Law.com this week…

Jon Udell posted to his blog about trends in enterprise wiki use, and had this to say about 2005: As the Wiki phenomenon enters its second decade, it’s hard to predict just how the technology will evolve. Two things seem certain: Wiki culture will continue to thrive, and enterprise users will continue to seek lighter,…

Superstar Senator on the cover of Newsweek and an upcoming appearance on Oprah. Minority Whip who’s willing to knock heads. Incoming head of the DCCC. The fact that Illinois Democrats have cornered the market on some of the most visible (and substantial) roles in DC and yet this isn’t translating into a robust state organization…

From OneMan, caught a new local blog that will cover the Aurora mayoral race: Openline. Anyone who calls me famous is alright by me. Speaking of the Aurora mayoral race, I noted here a while back that I had drinks with Richard Irvin, one of the Republicans running in the race. That thread led to…

I’d like to think that the blogs (see here for more info) had more than a little bit to do with this development. As of next week, Staples will be pulling all advertising from Sinclair Broadcasting Group.