A story on OnPoint tonight, a story about William McDonough’s preaching environmentalism beyond recycling. In his new book Cradle to Cradle with co-author Michael Braungart, McDonough predicts another industrial revolution where materials move beyond the “cradle-to-grave” paradigm, where resources are created with their demise in mind. Recycling can perpetuate the life of a milk bottle, [...]
What is with people and “reply all?” I’ve been using email for quite some time, but I wouldn’t say I’m an email expert. In all of my years, I have never mistakenly “replied all”. Somehow many of my peers, sometimes even tech-savvy role models are able to send a private reply to a public mailing [...]
A few nice points about the ongoing (monotonically increasing?) epidemic of spam (thanks Tom). Two notable quotes: Seth Godin, marketing guru, at an event organized by DoubleClick: “spam is spam, and spam has no future.” But banner ads are the path to enlightenment? Wha? David Ritz, an antispam advocate: “If you say something once, it’s [...]
Despite the fact that I’m as happy as a seagull in a dumpster at McDonalds, here are some greek terms for people hatred. Might come in handy.
My prediction: every tech columnist will write a column about blogs killing old media by 2007. Some will include video interviews.