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Dick Gordon. Stuart McLean. The Connection from WBUR: 11AM-12PM EDT
Two old friends hamming it up. Should be fun.

This is a great idea! Where do I sign up?
So far I have avoided the plague of CEC (read the article); I hope that I will continue this pattern for many more years. Or until we get a cool place for parents to hang out while the kids party.
WiFi, coffee, O’Douls, and comfy chairs…I can see it now! I think that Katherine has hit on Starbuck’s next expansion opportunity.

Jeffrey Phillips of Thinking Faster has a great post on why loyalty is still vital in the age where job security no longer exists.
If you have lost the loyalty of your employees or you pigeon-hole your excited and inventive digital generation employees into narrow and rigid job functions, how up-to-date is your resume?
Or maybe you enjoy working for the a government agency.

Johnnie Moore posts a great quote from Jeff Tweedy of Wilco, made in an interview with Wired.

A piece of art is not a loaf of bread. When someone steals a loaf of bread from the store, that’s it. The loaf of bread is gone. When someone downloads a piece of music, it’s just data until the listener puts that music back together with their own ears, their mind, their subjective experience. How they perceive your work changes your work.
Treating your audience like thieves is absurd. Anyone who chooses to listen to our music becomes a collaborator.
People who look at music as commerce don’t understand that. They are talking about pieces of plastic they want to sell, packages of intellectual property.
I’m not interested in selling pieces of plastic.

A really big message here. JM asks if you treat your customers like collaborators. I ask the opposite question: Are you selling pieces of plastic? If you are, how up-to-date is your resume?

Go Nick Bradbury! [here]

David Parmet has a wife who truly understand the geek nature of her husband.
David recommended the Waterfield Cargo bag (a la Joi Ito) to me, as a possible replacement for my tired (and now too small) Targus backpack.
Sue was rumbling through Technorati, and came across my post.
Sue gave David the Waterfield Cargo for his birthday. [here]

Happy Birthday, David.
PS: I prefer the orange one.

Predictive technologies are becoming recogmized as a very important comonent in any large information system. The data that these systems contain is useless, unless the patterns inside can be drawn out.
The Business Intelligence companies take these massive amount of existing data, crunch it, and find patterns within the data. Based on these patterns (or rules), BI systems can begin to extrapolate (LOVE that word!) future behaviour out of the patterns that appear in the new data. These are presented as scenarios to business users who can then take (what you hope is appropriate) action.
This will be very important in so many industries…including the one that I work in.
Via Silicon Valley Watcher

eBay Stores announces its new logo…SO WHAT?
eBay, this is not something that you should announce. Make it happen, have people talk about it…let it spread. This is not a talking point that Meg Whitman needs to have in her backpocket.
Focus on making your customers happy, one at a time, like you used to.
Via Seth Godin

I am trying to consciously implement a GTD process here at work. Today has been a bit rough, because I am stuck on a task I am not motivated for.
On the other hand, I have been extremely productive in getting the do tasks out of the way. Many small things that usually would have been stalling me are now gone. Now it is the truly large tasks that are getting in the way!
Onward we go…

I don’t know what’s cooler: that Dave Winer’s mom has a blog; or that she did a smackdown on the city of New York!
Go Eve!