LEDs, the Green Option Even if They Are Blue

For all the talk about the lowly light bulb being a primary front in the ongoing journey to becoming green, the fact is that there are few good options to replace the incandescent when it comes to light quality, cost, and environmental impact.

I have a few CFLs in the Nolan household but I simply don’t [...]

$19 Billion Gets You All of It

Gets you what? $19 billion is the market capitalization of 10 of the major U.S. newspaper stocks. Put another way, about 1/8th the value of Google.

To be clear, this is not the valuation of the top 10 newspaper companies because Hearst, Tribune, Cox are private and Dow Jones is part of behemoth News Corp, but [...]

Life’s Lessons

Tomorrow I am speaking at a really neat Silicon Valley Executive Network event. When Brian Reynard approached me (btw, in the spirit of full disclosure, I participate on his advisory board) about headlining the day I took up the challenge with the knowledge that Mayacama, the golf course the event will be held at, is [...]

Media Victimization of the Poor

Reading this NPR left me shaking my head with the subjects of the article as much as the persistent efforts by the media to victimize poor people in America. Quite frankly the two women profiled in this article are not sympathetic at all and if this is the best that NPR could do then they [...]

Damn Dirty Ape!

You have to admire the Spanish. Not content to rest on that whole “we discovered the new world” thing, they have now achieved another first in the annals of apekind.

A Spanish parliamentary committee adopted resolutions last month that would give great apes, such as chimpanzees and gorillas, the right to life, freedom from [...]

California’s Math Education Problem Extends to Statisticians

According to these numbers from a “highly accurate” reporting system, 24% of California’s high school students are dropping out, 127,292 students. The problem with this statistic is that there are 2 million students enrolled in California’s high school system. So 24% of 2 million is 127,292 students?

California’s first true count of high school [...]

What’s Your Social Quotient?

My very good friend Steve Mann put together an interesting methodology for measuring a company’s social media strategy risk and success factor. Very straightforward and objective, but near the end comes something that is not part of the measure yet experience suggests is a major contributor to success in any organization:

I’ve also considered [...]

National Ride Your Bike to Work Day

It’s tomorrow, they can count on me!

Marx’s Revenge

Thomas Otter sent me two books this week that I am really looking forward to reading. Throughout my adventures in capitalism I have had one persistent question that intersects my interest in both history and world current events: would Marx view 401k investment plans and a generally high level of personal investment holdings of public [...]

Flash Widgets and SEO

I’m still not sold on the notion that Flash can be search optimized… it’s also one very big reason to not use Flash widget containers. NewsGator supports both but HTML/Javascript has many advantages beyond simply SEO, like the fact that it’s 1/40th the size of Flash containers, can be dynamically resized, and can be developed [...]

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