Just a few years ago I was mourning the loss of the printed word in our media-hungry and web-hungry society. Even people I really respect, although most of them much younger than I, were starting to show cavalier disregard for the English language. I’d grimace while reading something that mistook then for [...]
Back in my distant past I had to learn to live with editing. I was in my twenties. It made me mad. Why change my stuff? But it also made my stuff better.
“Berry, you write like a God-damned literature major.” (Norberto Schwarzman)
So said the overnight editor at UPI back in 1972. He did me a [...]
What makes a good manager? Is it something you’re born with, or something you learn? Is there management instinct? I don’t know for sure. I’ve been in business for more than 30 years now, and I still don’t know.
A few years ago I was trapped on a plane with nothing to read but The One-Minute [...]
by Tim Berry on August 12, 2009
in Weblogs
I’ve had a run-in on this before, including this one on the Huffington Post that got a lot of comments … but still, look at this delightful post from thenextweb.com:
Author Zee, editor in chief at thenextweb.com, titled it: “Note to self: Don’t ‘friend’ your boss and then bitch about the job.”
After all, what part [...]
That’s right: it’s a doggy washing machine, not a faked photo, at least according to the write-up at www.davison.com in a hilarious collection called dangerously dumb designs. (Editor’s note: That page has been removed from the Davision Creators’ site, subsequent to the publishing of this post.)
The description says:
Yeah, that’s right, a dog washing machine. Traumatic and automatic. Dumb, [...]
Labels, and labels. Two days ago I complained here about self-proclaimed “experts” and “gurus.” And today I realize that I do the same thing myself, calling myself an entrepreneur. I ran into this interesting thought:
I must admit that when I hear the word (which inundates conversation and — more interestingly– the personal summaries of seemingly [...]
About Dumb Obvious Blog Comments
by Tim Berry on July 30, 2009
in Marketing, Weblogs
Is this funny, or just annoying? It’s an alleged comment to one of my posts on this blog. And get this: the same comment also appeared, word for word, on another post on my Up and Running blog on entrepreneur.com. Two different posts, but the identical comment, as follows:
Great post, I agree. I think a [...]
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