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Hysteria: Great, Now Whole Foods Is Making You Broke And Fat
Let’s have a means test based on the consumer’s weight and body fat index to determine not only how much salad they can buy but also what kind of dressing they get, if any. Uh yeah, personally I think we should simply stop trying to tell people how to live their lives. The New York [...]
Widgets at the DNC
Even though I am officially on vacation this week, I did want to blog about some cool stuff we are doing at the DNC in NewsGator’s hometown this week. The Big Tent stuff is getting some great coverage, and our widget is aggregating feeds from a whole bunch of blogs that are covering the event. [...]
Lowering the Drinking Age
UPDATE: I forgot to post this link to a post on PETA that I really liked, sent by a frequent commenter who shares my head shaking disbelief at PETA’s tactics. At first my reflexive response was against the idea of lowering the drinking age to 18 but after some thought I think I can support [...]
$1k a Square Foot for Affordable Housing
Can you imagine dropping $300,000 plus another $3k a year in HOA fees for 250 square feet of living space? A San Francisco design and development firm has begun marketing 98 tiny condominiums – ranging from 250 to 350 square feet – at the Cubix Yerba Buena building in SoMa. [From Home, small home: 250 [...]
Driving Hazards
He apparently was using his cell phone in hands free mode… no word from Californian State Senator Joe Simitian on when he will be introducing new legislation aimed at this dangerous new trend. On the evening of July 30th, Boppre fell off the wagon in a serious way. It started out with booze and ended [...]
Embargo Breakers: Old Topic, Move On
I wrote about PR embargoes over a year ago and my opinion has not changed, this is a stupid PR industry practice that outside of a very small niche serves very little utility. The small niche you ask? Take the New England Journal of Medicine as an example, they rely on embargoes to enable mainstream [...]
Intel Debuts Wireless Power
This could be huge but before we get too frothy about it we should take a breath and realize that not only will device makers have to build this into their hardware designs, and pay Intel for the privilege of doing so, but with a range of a couple of feet us consumers won’t be [...]
CRM Takes A Beating
Ouch. It is interesting that analysts are now criticizing the company for focusing too much on enterprise deployments when just a year ago that is exactly what the company said they were going to do. Meanwhile, sales and marketing expenses continue to take a huge bite out of the company’s income statement. The San Francisco-based [...]
Fair Use: 1, RIAA: 0
While I am pleased with this decision to allow a lawsuit against Universal to continue, we’re really not that much closer to achieving clarity about Fair Use in the 21st century. The saga of the copyright-infringing toddler continues as a California court refused to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that Universal Music had filed an improper [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. I am the VP of Product Marketing for Get Satisfaction and I write about a range of topics that interest me, including public policy, technology, entrepreneurship, finance, and global issues.
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