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7 months ago

in Broken windows and a call for help on Mathew's comments
Just noticed that Google has adopted a new system for sorting search results. If you're logged in with a Google account, new buttons show up next to search results that let you Promote, Remove or Comment on each item!

11 months ago

in Wrong — Steve’s health is my business on Mathew's comments
Healthy or not, Steve could be hit by a bus tomorrow. Shareholders knew "Apple = Steve" before his cancer scare. Isn't the real issue the One Man Band leadership team?
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Maggy Young Hey Sandy, I was just about to write the same point as you before I came to your post. Exactly. And how many senior middle aged executives aren't potentially at risk from some health problem, whether known or unknown. The recent sudden death of a prominent US broadcaster has just underlined that point. Steve or any other senior exec. could just drop dead tomorrow anyway.
So I think the 'health monitoring' is an unnecessary invasion of privacy, although it is fair reporting. Someone as significant as Steve Jobs should reluctantly accept this.
The whole point is that Steve will have to go sometime anyway & Apple should have groomed a successor & if not, why not ? That is what they should be accounting to stockholders & Wall St. for.

11 months ago

in Microsoft: Still unclear on the concept on Mathew's comments
Driving is also something you do to cattle.

1 year ago

in Wikinomics » Blog Archive » What movie speaks for your generation? on Wikinomics
I paid to see The Princess Bride 11 times while it was in theatres, and I watch Groundhog Day and It's a Wonderful Life at least once each year. My favourite movies include Citizen Kane, The Iron Giant, Stranger Than Fiction, The Muppet Movie, The Mighty, and everything Pixar has released. (Well, maybe not the short film Boundin' - what was THAT about?)

Born in 1966, I'm officially an early Xer, but never identified with the Generation X label. I remember being annoyed when Coupland's book came out. I wasn't cynical and didn't appreciate being known as a slacker. Still don't. (We weren't lazy, honest; most of the good jobs were taken.)

Before the boomers, there was no NEED to define generations. No group of people before or since the boomers had the same influence. By sheer weight of numbers, their needs and wants changed the world.

Hollywood has always catered to the boomers because that's where the money was/is (and fair enough - it's called show business for a reason). When I was a kid there were good movies for teens. When I was a teen there were good movies for young adults. The 30something TV series was a cautionary tale about my near future, not a slice of my life. I was behind the boomers. I hope they will revolutionize the retirement home industry, and I hope there will be room for me when I'm ready to go there.

I think it's a mistake to assume that other generations are like the baby boomers in any way. That includes the idea of generational influence or homogeneity. No political scandal was like Watergate, but every political scandal since has been tagged as a "gate." This is the kind of thinking that assumes there are generations of people who think and behave like each other.

I don't know if The Big Chill speaks for a generation, but no movie speaks for me.

2 years ago

in Okay, that was a little weird on Mathew's comments
FYI, Walter Cronkite is alive and well, and not spinning in any grave.
He recently offered his review of Katie Couric's performance at CBS; maybe he will weigh in on Amanda's debut as well.
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