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Technology

What? No cell phones? No laptops? No tablet computer to take notes? That’s crazy! Last week we had a two-day off-site strategy meeting. Ten people, two days, lots of SWOTs, bullet points, and discussions. It was a good meeting. I…

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God: I Tweet, Therefore I Am

by Tim Berry on January 2, 2009

in Blogs and blogging, Technology, Writing

God is no longer in Yahoo! Messenger, but she is in Twitter. Not on LinkedIn, but several incarnations in Facebook. True story: Several years ago I found God on Yahoo! Messenger. That was the year that Yahoo! Messenger first started….

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If only we could just target computers to buy our stuff, instead of people. Some days I want to sell to that guy Commander Data in the Star Trek TV series and movies. He was a computer. Disclosure: I’m not…

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So, given the last few weeks, how would you like to do a 25-year forecast of major trends? Me neither. But I would like to read one. I got an update last week from the World Future Society, which has…

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Macs on the Rise

by Tim Berry on September 15, 2008

in Technology

Who doesn’t want to be socioeconomically elite, particularly if it comes with youth and money? I posted here about my happy return to Macintosh as my home desktop, and now I’ve got a press release saying I’m actually one of…

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Spellchecker and politics

by Tim Berry on August 18, 2008

in Creativity, Technology, Writing

I found this interesting. It was in David Pogue’s column last week. He’s the New York Times Technology writer: Q: David: I’ve noticed this for a year, and have not been able to get Microsoft to change it: Type “Obama”…

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David Pogue’s Gadget List of 2008

by Tim Berry on August 11, 2008

in Technology

I look forward to David Pogue’s columns in the New York Times (he’s the technology writer), and particularly like his videos — the iPhone musical one is a classic — so I’m passing on this gadget list. He writes about…

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They talk about blogging, Twitter, social media; why it’s good for business, why not, how to do it, and why. Humbug. The topic is off base. It’s not whether its good or bad, but does it fit with everything else…

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The buzz is growing very fast on what might have been the keynote speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival last week. I picked it up at Huffington Post, in a post titled Thomas Friedman Calls for Green Revolution. Here’s the…

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In January I visited with Daniel Doll-Steinberg of Tribeka Ltd., an innovative UK software retailer with a new idea for the channel, and posted An Old New Channel for Software on this blog. I was impressed. I’ve been following software…

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