Tsundoku. | Ramana’s Musings. The following Japanese word is a very useful one-word starting point to discussing a predilection bordering on affliction – particularly in earthquake country where a full bookcase is a potential wall of projectiles. I have two methods for keeping my bookshelves in check: (1) for each book I buy I must…
Author: Penelope Gordon
The trouble with socialists
Is America becoming a ‘socialist state’? 40 percent say yes. – CSMonitor.com. – 2012 July 30 Setting aside whether or not health care reform should be equated with socialism, why do so many Americans have issues with the word socialism? Maybe it’s because those same people (mistakenly) believe that America is capitalist society (when the…
Cloud Plays Big Role in SMB
Cloud Computing Plays Big Role in Small, Mid-Sized Businesses – Messaging and Collaboration. – 2012 Aug 13 This survey would be a lot more interesting if it looked at SMEs’ adoption of SaaS products and SaaS-enabled BPO for a large portion of their non-differentiating business processes. (File sharing and email are tools rather than business…
Impediments to Infrastructure Improvements
FoodEngineering August 2012. Though this article is about impediments food manufacturers face in making improvements to their plant infrastructure, the same could be said for the obstacles that a whole range of SMEs face in improving their IT enablement with cloud computing.
Rain Barrel Bear – YouTube
Rain Barrel Bear – YouTube. At least this bear emptying the rain barrel isn’t as damaging as the flooding caused by the raccoon who shoved aside the sump pump outside the downstairs french doors. After having the basement flooded twice and replacing a burned out sump pump, we caught the culprit in the act. The…
CV Employees
CV Incentive Mechanism: Employees Definition of employee engagement DreamWorks Animation Cultivates a Culture of Creativity – Featured Article – Workforce. – 2012 August 13 DreamWorks Animation’s (DWA) products are labor-intensive, and a significant portion of that labor consists of knowledge workers. In common with many other knowledge workers, DWA employees must leverage their knowledge to…
Snap Judgment
Lemonade – Snap #318 | Snap Judgment. Snap Judgment: always engaging, memorable stories, pushes us outside our comfort zones – but not in the squirm-inducing fashion of TV sitcoms with their cheap tricks.
Moyers & Company on Voter Suppression
Episode Description for: MOYERS & COMPANY. – Suppressing the Vote Bill Moyers and his guests make a compelling case for fighting voter ID laws because the right to vote is a fundamental democratic principle and the number of otherwise eligible voters that these laws effectively prevent or discourage from exercising their right to vote is…
Moyers & Company on Voter Suppression
Episode Description for: MOYERS & COMPANY. – Suppressing the Vote Bill Moyers and his guests make a compelling case for fighting voter ID laws because the right to vote is a fundamental democratic principle and the number of otherwise eligible voters that these laws effectively prevent or discourage from exercising their right to vote is…
General Colin Powell on Purpose
General Colin Powell | City Arts & Lectures. On 2012 August 12 KQED broadcast a 2012 June 7 City Arts & Lectures conversation with General Colin Powell in part discussing his new book It Worked For Me: In Life and Leadership. It was an engrossing conversation which unfortunately is not available as a podcast or…