Stanford drops tuition for some students

I’ve recently been critical of large higher education institutions for how they haven’t been using their formidable endowments, to expand education opportunities for more students. Harvard and Stanford in particular deserve considerable attention for what they do and don’t do with their multi-billion dollar investment funds, but today I want to point out something that [...]

VC T-Shirts

Be forewarned, put down whatever you are drinking before you read these t-shirts. Hat tip to John Worrell

Candidate Tracker Widgets

Here are a couple of new widgets that Cox Newspapers has made available. Nothing fancy, just meat-and-potatoes text widgets that are all business and no pokes.

UPDATE: I didn’t like the way these widgets were formatting, so I pulled them.

How Not to Formulate a PR Response

Consumerist ran a post about how Monster Cables was ripping off customers with really high priced products that were technically indistinguishable from other offerings.

Monster Cables responded with a lengthy PR response that:

1) offered an extensive tutorial on how profit margins are calculated

2) blamed high prices on retailers

3) included a [...]

Gov. Schwarzenegger orders more cuts to reduce state’s big deficit

Those proposals will likely resurface in coming weeks and months as Schwarzenegger and the Legislature hammer out a more than $140 billion spending plan for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1.[From Gov. Schwarzenegger orders more cuts to reduce state's big deficit]

Build your own California budget, I did and in 2011/12 I [...]

Now It’s Just Blu-Ray

Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders.

[From Toshiba : Press Releases 19 February, 2008]

In December of last year I wrote that high def DVD [...]

Shared work spaces a wave of the future

“We’re seeing a clear trend to free agents and personal businesses, due to outsourcing, layoffs, and people looking for work-life balance or more work flexibility,” said King. “That’s going to result in more people working on their own either full or part time. Those folks need support. And what’s really cool about co-working [...]

Congratulations to Dan Farber

Dan is one of the people I have been fortunate to meet and get to know over the years. He is deserving of this promotion to CNET and I wish him good fortune going forward. I really can’t say enough good things about Dan so I’ll just leave it at that!

Big news at [...]

Dilbert on Experience

If you look at the great achievements in history, they are usually accomplished by younger people. Those people continue to acquire relevant experience throughout their careers but their successes do not continue at the same rate. For anything important, experience probably has a strong negative correlation with success. If that weren’t true, all [...]

LiveWriter Envy

I don’t have any experience with LiveWriter but I trust Dennis’ judgement on these matters and I have yet to hear someone speak ill of LiveWriter. It is somewhat surprising that there is a dearth of innovation in blogging tools, just a lot of incrementalism. If Microsoft included a version of LiveWriter in MacOffice, well [...]

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