Archive for December, 2007

CNET has published the best and worst technology of 2007
Hopefully BEFORE you’ve gone out and bought too many of these losers for the holidays. (And before someone bought one for YOU!)
Boy, some of these dogs really bark!
I especially liked reading the Web 2.0 hits and misses.

By Melissa Brewer
How many times have you wished that there was a work at home opportunity for an entry-level office job applicant? Do you daydream about the time you would save each day if you didn’t have to make that commute to work? Do you wish you didn’t have to dress up to attend [...]

I must have had my head buried in the sand. I just ran across the article announcing the Congress has banned the incandescent light bulb… by 2014 of course when the people in Congress then can shrug their shoulders and say “We didn’t do this! Don’t blame us!”
The argument is that the small fluorescent bulbs [...]

Here’s an interesting book I was browsing at Lulu.com, it’s the Tell A Friend Book
Big corporations pay consultants to keep positive word of mouth spreading.  We tend to assume that word of mouth happens by “Accident”. It does to some extent, but there are things we do that can help or hurt us in the [...]

A new trend in the formation of corporate entities is the “B Corporation”. You’ve heard of  “C” corporation because that’s a long standing corporate entity type according to the tax laws.
B Corporations do have a unique corporate structure that lets them divert profits to community “stakeholder” non-profit organizations as opposed to “stockholders”.
The question remains… are [...]

Short answer: Evidently!
The NY Times made this clear here.   147,000 copies worth!
HT: Steve Weber
Image courtesy NYTimes 

This is really more of a question than anything else.
First of all, the Senate voting to require autos to get 35 mpg in the name of setting the United States free from the power of the OPEC Cartel is like trying to put out a raging fire with a thimble of water. But really, what [...]

My Angel Food Ministries lens was a project I started a few months ago. I wanted to get my lens in the Top 100 in 7 days and succeeded.
It gets traffic all the time. It makes a few bucks for me monthly. And I get comments on a steady basis.
I was checking it’s rank today [...]

From KansasCity.com
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One of the hot topics from time to time in this election relates to the “Fair Tax” - a plan to eliminate the IRS and replace it with a flat national sales tax.
To take the issue from the level of abstract babble to “money in your pocket” FairTax.org has created an online fair tax calculator [...]