May 31, 2004
George Soros Profile in NY Times
The NY Times redeems itself (after the lousy blogging article) with And for His Next Feat, a Billionaire Sets Sights on Bush – a good profile on George Soros.
I have ...
May 30, 2004
Blogging is not an addiction
The New York Times article on blogging (5/27) titled “For Some, the Blogging Never Stops” is predictably shallow. Remember 1994 – 1995 and the NYT publishes an article a ...
May 29, 2004
Gotham
Or New Jack City as my partner Rex calls it.
My wife Amy and I had a fabulous day. We spent the morning with Theresa Chong, an artist who Amy ...
May 27, 2004
Mental Floss – Stone Barrington
I read a lot. I try to make sure every third book is mental floss (or – as my mom says, “junk.”) Today’s mental floss was Reckless Abandon ...
Mark Cuban – Success and Motivation Part 4
Mark Cuban has a new post in his Success and Motivation series. Fun stuff, including good Michael Dell and Bill Gates history.
Beyond Clicks, Opens & Bounces
One of my companies – Return Path – recently released a white paper called Beyond Clicks, Opens & Bounces. This white paper talked about metrics that help marketers understand ...
We Suck Less
I was in an upbeat board meeting yesterday for one of my growing companies that is having a good year. While our business is in good shape, one of ...
May 25, 2004
What do my blog stats really mean?
One of the segments of the blogsphere that is starting to appear is analytics. I was the initial investor in NetGenesis (now owned by SPSS) and Mobius Venture Capital ...
Finali Names new VP of Professional Services
As I continue to play around with blogs, I’m trying to figure out what is useful stuff to post and what isn’t. My blog is obviously one way for ...
The River gets Blammed – for real
There have been a raft of Blam (blog spam) posts recently. To date, all the Blam I have seen has been in comment posts. There are lots of ...
Cyanea Systems Completes BEA Validation Program
Today, one of my companies – Cyanea – a leading developer of software that helps companies effectively monitor and manage distributed and mainframe-based applications, announced that Cyanea/One has completed the ...
May 23, 2004
An insult to anyone that has run a marathon
In The Slowing of The Marathon, Dan Ackman discusses how the median male runner in the 1983 NY Marathon clocked a time of 3:41:49 (8:27 / mile) while the median ...
Ugly Americans
Nope – this is not yet another post about Iraq.
I just finished reading Ugly Americans : The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for ...
May 21, 2004
On Being the CEO – Henry V and The Cover-up
Jerry Colonna has a great post on being a CEO.
Kurt Vonnegut still rocks at 81
I don’t care whether you agree or disagree with Kurt Vonnegut – he’s still an amazing and provocative writer at age 81. His essay Cold Turkey was sent to ...