Day March 5, 2005

The power of blogging

My friend John at Crooks and Liars demonstrates the power bloggers can have, forcing an on-air apology from Robert Novak. Good stuff, indeed. Crooks and Liars gets Robert Novak to issue an “on-the-air” apology. I helped him start the blog, and still…

Do they ever accept responsibility?

In the United States, President Bush called Berlusconi from Air Force One “to express his regret about the incident,” White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan said Friday. The State Department released a statement saying, “We express our deep condolences for…

How to get ahead in business?

From an online class for a CPA Ethics test, forwarded by Miss Monica. A January 1995 article in the California Management Review, “A View from the Trenches”, interviewed 30 recent Harvard MBA graduates. Among their comments: Organizational pressures, not character flaws, lead…

Who knew?

Among other sites, I’m webmaster for the ViridianRepository, a site of contest entries for Viridian Design, a design movement about stopping global warming. Seems aboveground and straightforward enough, right? Not according to a member trying to access the site… Received the following…