Powell, Black Cat to Cross Paths on Friday 13th (Reuters)

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Bush, Kerry Trade Jabs, Nearly Cross
Paths (Reuters)

Bush, Kerry Trade Jabs, Nearly Cross
Paths (Reuters) 08/04/2004 03:31 PM
Reuters - President Bush and Democratic rival John Kerry hunted for votes within blocks of each other in the swing state of Iowa on Wednesday by touting their leadership and trading jabs on the economy and security.

Friday the 13th at SLS

Friday the 13th at SLS 02/13/2004 02:31 PM

It's Crazy Sock Day at SLS, and you can see the entries on our terribly unofficial moblog! All of the pictures were taken with my Treo 600 or Kate's Samsung VGA-1000.

We're having great fun playing with Kate's new phone. It's got a camera with a flash, fun ringtones, Java for games, and a 14-day free trial of iKTV television! I took some pictures of the screens and posted them on my moblog.

Powell and the black cat (Reuters)

Powell and the black cat (Reuters) 08/12/2004 05:00 PM
Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell will cross paths with a black cat on Friday the 13th, posing for a picture with a copper-eyed Bombay male that bears his name.

Friday the 13th: Bad Luck

Friday the 13th: Bad Luck 02/14/2004 02:26 AM

Today was definitely Friday the 13th.

I don't post about the office on this weblog very often, but today was just one of those days. I'm a sales manager at work, and today, my "star performer" told me she had been offered a job at another company.

That means she's leaving.

Ugh... can't tell you how hard that hit me.

You see, I've been trying to build a new business around online advertising sales for my company for the past year and a half, and I've spent a lot of time teaching, training, and learning. I've really put a lot into getting my "star performer" to the level that she's at right now. When I started at the office, this person was pretty green. I had to mold her into the sales person I needed her to be, and she took it well. Very well, and she's become successful.

This year, my company gave her an award for improving so much. That made me feel very good about what I was doing and where we were heading.

Then, today, she tells me she's leaving.

As her friend, I can't help but be happy for her, and excited about her opportunities... but as her boss, I can't help but feel overwhelmed and stressed about the pressure this will put on top of all of the rest of the pressure I've put myself under trying to build this new part of our business.

We'll get buy without this "star performer" but this sets up back a few steps.

I'll post a note on Monday about the opening I need to fill, but, if you know someone in Austin that wants to sell online advertising at a local media company, please send me their resume.

Misc/friday the 13th origins

Misc/friday the 13th origins 02/14/2004 09:14 AM
origins of the Friday the 13th superstition .. who on earth came with the notion .. origins .. page .. h

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Google Auction Begins Today, Friday the
13th. Yawn

Google Auction Begins Today, Friday the
13th. Yawn 08/13/2004 02:06 AM
FinancialWire Aug 13 2004 6:27AM GMT

mozdev Admin Meeting Minutes from Friday
13th August 2004

mozdev Admin Meeting Minutes from Friday
13th August 2004 08/18/2004 06:17 PM

Campaigns Cross Paths in Midwest
(washingtonpost.com)

Campaigns Cross Paths in Midwest
(washingtonpost.com) 08/04/2004 10:09 PM
washingtonpost.com - DAVENPORT, Iowa, Aug. 4 -- President Bush and Democratic challenger John F. Kerry brought their battle for the White House to this Mississippi River town Wednesday, staging dueling campaign events within blocks of each other where they painted sharply contrasting portraits of the economy and U.S. policy in Iraq.

Bush, Kerry cross paths in Iowa

Bush, Kerry cross paths in Iowa 08/04/2004 11:18 AM
President Bush and rival John Kerry head for the same city in the key state of Iowa, as they vie for undecided voters.

Coffee Houses Cross Paths with History,
Again

Coffee Houses Cross Paths with History,
Again 01/07/2004 02:37 PM
From the There's Nothing New Under the Sun Department, coffee houses in the 17th and 18th centuries were the Wi-Fi hotspots of their day: The Economist writes (without byline, as is its wont) about the parallels between the political and editorial foment that occurred in 17th and 18th century coffeehouses in England and, to a lesser extent, France, and how these centers of iquity (as opposed to iniquity, Wodehouse might write) led to the foundation of insurers and publications. In fact, coffee houses were often the mailing addresses for folks before street addresses were common. It all sounds awfully familiar, doesn't it? Wi-Fi hotspots in coffee houses thus have this excellent pedigree. The author of this piece is the same fellow who write the charming and excellent The Victorian Internet, which relayed the development of the telegraph and its effect on the planetary infosphere, and how it paralleled (and predicted) Internet trends, including the bubble. The author is working on a book now about the coffee house/Internet cafe overlap....

Who's ready for Black Friday?

Who's ready for Black Friday? 12/02/2003 01:04 AM

PARALLEL
PATHS CONVERGING

PARALLEL
PATHS CONVERGING 07/31/2004 08:55 AM

I'm going to do today what I almost never do, and that is talk about another blogger, one who I've never met and, until a few days ago, had never heard of. Mark Brady at Fourobouros (the name is a play on the alchemist's symbol of a dragon devouring its own tail, representing a state of constant flux and reinvention, and the search for value and values) came to my attention while researching my post on Corporate Anorexia. Recently he has been writing about this and also about -- surprise! -- George Lakoff (as have I), and the Wal-Mart Dilemma (as have I). His recent post on Lakoff included the phrase "Don't tell me, show me", while my recent post on teaching children about nature included the phrase "we learn what we're shown, not what we're told". What intrigues me is that I'd never heard of Mark or his blog, I suspect he's never heard of How to Save the World, and our blogrolls have only two common links. And when I looked at his bio, I found this remarkable passage: After 2 years of ulcerated struggle, I left the last [ad] agency and helped cofound a boutique business development consultancy called Alchemy LLC, consisting of an architect, an organizational specialist, and me--an ad guy, along with a few alliance relationships in finance, process management, head-shrinking and cultural anthropology. We're problem solvers, what the French call Bricoleurs, cerebral when we have to be, but ferocious simplifiers when at all possible. We help small to mid-cap companies get healthy, and push healthy ones to get outrageous. It's great fun and very rewarding. Our clients are usually up aganst the wall and looking for fresh thinking. We aim to please. People have come to us looking for a business plan or marketing and we designed them a better distribution system or sales approach, instead. We get angry neighbors to find common cause with commercial real-estate developers, we help get VC's to see beyond less than attractive balance sheets, and we teach kids in elementary schools how to think creatively and middle schoolers to become balanced leaders. We design work places, make TV commercials and help people make nice and make money. People say we do these things well. One long-time client introduced us to a CEO retreat by saying we're "at the top of an industry that doesn't exist--yet." We like that. We're immensely curious and, humble. We speak very candidly. We don't take our selves too seriously. If you'll notice, all these things have one element in common: moving people, figuratively and literally. That's the real stuff. The rest is just tactics. I love what I do. I like to share, hence this blog. Life is good. Great, eh? Wouldn't you just love to work with these guys? All of this, besides letting you know about a great blog and a fascinating company, is my round-about way of making a point that I'm going to blog about next week: The Next Economy, whether that be a World of Ends Economy or a Support Economy, in which entrepreneurs will find and associate with each other to provide innovative, deeply valuable services to customers in a way that multinational corporations can never hope to match, depends utterly on the Internet providing us with a powerful means to find like minds and experts on anything under the sun. The bit of serendipity that I described above that allowed me to find Mark is a perfect example of how impossibly difficult that is with the tools, and shortage of knowledge, we struggle with today. The issues are: How do we get people to post to the Internet (and keep up-to-date) sufficient information about themselves in an appropriate format to allow us to find them, easily, when we need them? What kind of tool is needed to filter, qualify and leverage that information and (ideally, proactively and organically) connect us with like minds and needed experts, kind of a context-rich audited Yellow Pages of millions of people's individual interests and expertise. We know that search engines and first-generation social networking tools aren't up to the job. We need something completely different. Time for some creative, very innovative thinking. Time to think how nature would solve (or does solve) this complex problem -- I'm thinking of the thousands of spring peeper frogs in my pond all calling out for the perfect mate. The solution probably lies in that place where parallel paths converge. (Off for the long weekend -- back Tuesday. Take care of yourself.)

Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday
Prices

Best Buy Uses DMCA To Quash Black Friday
Prices 11/16/2003 02:51 PM

Black Friday - After Thanksgiving Day
Sales List 2003

Black Friday - After Thanksgiving Day
Sales List 2003 11/19/2003 12:31 AM
Techfocus Nov 19 2003 0:05AM ET

OJR article: Reuters, AP Follow
Different Paths in Search of Revenues

OJR article: Reuters, AP Follow
Different Paths in Search of Revenues 05/06/2004 03:13 AM
Reuters, AP Follow Different Paths in Search of Revenues

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RESURRECT
FRIDAY FIVE?

RESURRECT
FRIDAY FIVE? 05/15/2004 12:50 PM

A long-standing and very popular tradition in the blogosphere -- The Friday Five -- in which you were invited to answer the week's five questions on your blog and then link back to the home site, so participants can browse everyone's answers -- is no more. Heather, the woman who established and ran Friday Five single-handedly, has stopped asking the weekly questions so she can concentrate on her Globe of Blogs directory. Every once in awhile when I needed something light for a Friday (or more often, a Saturday) post, I would turn to this site for inspiration. I participated about a dozen times. Once I had my five questions accepted as the questions of the week -- and with 600-700 people participating each week it was great exposure for my then-fledgling blog. Heather wisely decided not to turn the reins over to anyone else, since such sites always take on the unique flavour and style of their owner. Many people found a lot of the questions inane, but hundreds also protested when the questions were "too hard". So the questions stayed mostly lowbrow and the popularity (it's one of the 25 most blogrolled sites, with 2500 inbound blogs) stayed high. I, for one, liked the highbrow, "too hard" questions. Their answers provided an insight into the mind and heart of the blogger that often could not be gleaned from their daily, impersonal posts. So my proposal is to create a Friday Five type weekly question (or at most two -- five is too many to allow time and space to elaborate on your answer), which we'd solicit, post, and aggregate answers to, through a Google Group (to save having to set up a separate place and buy bandwidth and server space for it). I'd further propose we run it Saturday (quietest day of the week on the blogosphere), and that it be called That's Awfully Personal, to reflect the fact that the answers should be revealing, more than just an off-the-cuff opinion poll or survey. Here's some examples of questions that might qualify: Your home is aflame and burning out of control. All living creatures have been safely evacuated. You have time to go back in quickly and save one possession from the flames. What would it be, and why? Your spouse/loved one has come down with an inexplicable and terminal illness. Their last request of you is to (re-)marry someone as soon as possible, and not unduly mourn their passing. Do you honour this request, and if so, who is the first person who comes to mind as a possible spouse? You are one of five finalists in a winner-take-all $1 million lottery being decided by a reverse draw. A stranger offers you (and this is allowed) $160,000 now for your ticket, and says if you decline he will offer $200,000 if yours is one of the last 4 tickets, $267,000 if yours is one of the last 3 tickets, and $400,000 if yours is one of the last 2 tickets (each offer being 80% of the 'expected value' of the ticket at that point). One of the other finalists offers to split the million with you if yours and theirs are the last 2 tickets remaining, provided you agree to this irrevocably now with 5 tickets remaining. Which, if any, of the offers do you take, and why? And here's the simple instructions that we could use: This Google Group has four sections: One for the Question of the Week, as selected by our Awfully Personal Panel and posted each Friday evening, a second for your permalinks to where you've answered the Question of the Week, a third for your suggestions for future Questions of the Week, and a fourth for general discussion about That's Awfully Personal. To participate, just look for this week's Question of the Week, copy and paste it into your blog post, along with your answer (usually a paragraph or two), then return to this Google Group and post your permalink (the URL where you've posted your answers) in the second, My Answers Permalink section. And feel free to browse others' answers and learn more about them -- maybe even find like minds and hearts. If you have a suggestion for Question of the Week, post it in the third section and our Panel will review it and, if selected, they will acknowledge you as the author with a link to your blog. Questions should ideally be challenging, so that the answers will be revealing (when answered honestly). But this isn't Truth or Dare -- we want people to want to answer honestly and to have to think a bit before they do. If you have questions or comments, please post them in the fourth section -- our Panel will read them and reply promptly. Thanks for playing! What do you think of the idea?

Blackboard Inc. to Go Public Friday-Post
(Reuters)

Blackboard Inc. to Go Public Friday-Post
(Reuters) 06/18/2004 01:31 AM
Reuters - Educational-software company Blackboard Inc. plans to raise $51.1 million on Friday in an initial public offering at $14 per share, the Washington Post reported.

At Least 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
on Friday (Reuters)

At Least 2 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
on Friday (Reuters) 04/09/2004 04:00 PM
Reuters - At least two U.S. soldiers and a civilian truck driver were killed by guerrillas in Iraq on Friday and three more Marines were killed west of Baghdad the previous day, the U.S. military said in a statement.

Comedians Joke About the Campaign -
Friday Night (Reuters)

Comedians Joke About the Campaign -
Friday Night (Reuters) 05/24/2004 09:13 AM
Reuters - With the U.S. presidential election approaching, late night television comics are poking fun at the candidates.

Comedians Joke About the Campaign-Friday
Night (Reuters)

Comedians Joke About the Campaign-Friday
Night (Reuters) 06/01/2004 09:09 AM
Reuters - With the U.S. presidential election approaching, late-night television comics are poking fun at the candidates.

U.S. Presses Iraqi Cleric Before Friday
Prayers (Reuters)

U.S. Presses Iraqi Cleric Before Friday
Prayers (Reuters) 05/07/2004 02:07 AM
Reuters - U.S. troops tightened their grip on Iraq's holiest Shi'ite city of Najaf on Friday and on the troublesome cleric who has launched a militia army against them.

Martha Stewart, Broker Both to Be
Sentenced Friday (Reuters)

Martha Stewart, Broker Both to Be
Sentenced Friday (Reuters) 07/13/2004 12:31 PM
Reuters - Martha Stewart and her former Merrill Lynch broker, who was convicted with the trendsetter for lying about a suspicious trade, will both be sentenced on Friday, a secretary in the judge's chambers said Tuesday.

Bush to Release Budget Figures on Friday
(Reuters)

Bush to Release Budget Figures on Friday
(Reuters) 07/29/2004 11:54 AM
Reuters - The White House on Friday will project a record budget deficit of between $425 billion to $450 billion for fiscal year 2004, government sources said.

Powell Says Support for War Will Revive
(Reuters)

Powell Says Support for War Will Revive
(Reuters) 04/29/2004 08:59 AM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Thursday waning support among Americans for the occupation of Iraq would revive once U.S. forces there stamped out a surge of armed resistance.

Powell Says U.N Must Act Now on Iran
Weapons (Reuters)

Powell Says U.N Must Act Now on Iran
Weapons (Reuters) 09/01/2004 10:59 PM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Wednesday the time had come for the United Nations to take punitive action against Iran for its alleged nuclear weapons program.

Powell: Iraq Will Have No Veto on
U.S.-Led Force (Reuters)

Powell: Iraq Will Have No Veto on
U.S.-Led Force (Reuters) 06/03/2004 05:09 AM
Reuters - Iraq's new interim government will have no veto over future military operations by American-led forces after the U.S.-British occupation formally ends on June 30, Secretary of State Colin Powell said.

Powell Concerned by Putin Political
Changes (Reuters)

Powell Concerned by Putin Political
Changes (Reuters) 09/14/2004 11:20 AM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday he had concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin's sweeping political changes.

Powell: Unlikely WMD Stocks Will Be
Found in Iraq (Reuters)

Powell: Unlikely WMD Stocks Will Be
Found in Iraq (Reuters) 09/13/2004 04:53 PM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell, who made the case to the world that pre-war Iraq had stocks of chemical and biological weapons, said on Monday he now thought these will probably never be found.

Powell: It's 'Open Question' Whether
Iraq Had WMD (Reuters)

Powell: It's 'Open Question' Whether
Iraq Had WMD (Reuters) 01/24/2004 02:50 PM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Saturday it was an "open question" whether stocks of weapons of mass destruction would be found in Iraq and conceded it was possible Saddam Hussein had none.

Powell Threatens Sudan with U.N.
Resolution (Reuters)

Powell Threatens Sudan with U.N.
Resolution (Reuters) 06/29/2004 05:11 PM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell threatened the Sudanese government with unspecified U.N. Security Council action on Tuesday if it fails to crack down on Arab militias whose actions he said are approaching genocide against African villagers in the western Darfur region.

Powell Says Never Considered Resigning
Over Iraq (Reuters)

Powell Says Never Considered Resigning
Over Iraq (Reuters) 04/26/2004 11:17 PM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Monday he never considered resigning over the Iraq war.

Pope's Health Precarious, to Skip Good
Friday Services (Reuters)

Pope's Health Precarious, to Skip Good
Friday Services (Reuters) 03/22/2005 03:46 PM
Reuters - Pope John Paul's recovery from throat surgery is going slower than hoped for, raising even more doubts over if and when he can resume normal activities, Vatican sources said on Tuesday.

Powell Apologizes to Iraqis Abused at
Abu Ghraib (Reuters)

Powell Apologizes to Iraqis Abused at
Abu Ghraib (Reuters) 05/16/2004 06:27 AM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell apologized Sunday to Iraqi prisoners abused by U.S. soldiers, one day after he gave a speech in which he promised justice but left many Arabs angry and distrustful.

Powell Cancels Plans to Visit Athens
(Reuters)

Powell Cancels Plans to Visit Athens
(Reuters) 08/28/2004 02:24 AM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell canceled plans to attend the Olympics closing ceremonies in Greece because of the "press of business" including crises in Iraq and Sudan, U.S. officials said on Saturday.

Powell Sees No Rise in U.S. Tsunami
Funds for Now (Reuters)

Powell Sees No Rise in U.S. Tsunami
Funds for Now (Reuters) 01/03/2005 11:51 AM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell said Monday he did not expect U.S. financial aid for tsunami-hit Asian nations to increase for now as he visited the region after criticism that Washington's initial response was slow and stingy.

Clashes in Iraq; Powell Says U.S. Troops
to Stay (Reuters)

Clashes in Iraq; Powell Says U.S. Troops
to Stay (Reuters) 05/16/2004 08:57 PM
Reuters - U.S. and Italian troops fought Shi'ite militia in at least two towns in southern Iraq on Sunday and Italy urged Washington to show restraint and work out a plan for the occupation forces to leave the country.

Powell Sees Chances for Dialogue with
Iran (Reuters)

Powell Sees Chances for Dialogue with
Iran (Reuters) 01/09/2004 09:53 PM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Friday the Bam earthquake had opened up some opportunities for dialogue between the United States and Iran even though there was no reason to expect a quick political rapprochement

Powell Says U.S. Was 'Too Loud' Over
Iraq -Magazine (Reuters)

Powell Says U.S. Was 'Too Loud' Over
Iraq -Magazine (Reuters) 03/30/2005 07:36 AM
Reuters - The United States made errors in presenting its case for war against Iraq, but Saddam Hussein had to be removed, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told a German magazine.

Powell Says 'Dangerous Time' in Saudi
Arabia (Reuters)

Powell Says 'Dangerous Time' in Saudi
Arabia (Reuters) 06/13/2004 10:13 AM
Reuters - Secretary of State Colin Powell on Sunday cited a worsening security situation in Saudi Arabia and said the United States was determined to do all it could to defeat terrorism in the region.
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