One of the highlights of this week’s inauguration ceremony was the performance of a John Williams piece by a well known classical quartet made up of Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Itzhak Perlman (violin), Gabriela Montero (piano) and Anthony McGill (clarinet). It…
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Circuit City Closing Leads To Customer “Short Circuit”
It’s a long standing business business practice that the “seller sets the terms“. While its true that you can bargain with a vendor if you think they will sell at a lower price, in the end, if you are not…
Maybe They Should Rename it “You Learn”
An article in last Sunday’s New York Times made me aware of a new web surfing habit I have developed without even thinking about it. The basis for the Times article was how web users, particularly young peope, were using…
Wonder If They Gave Him A Gold Nose Ring?
I wrote a piece sometime back regarding where new concert sound techs were going to come from. The pro sound industry continues to “gray” and pursuing jobs in concert production attracts fewer and fewer young people interested in this career.…
What’s In A Name
My last several blog posts have centered on issues related to search engine optimization, and the more I read about this important area of web development, the more I come to realize that not nearly enough time is spent on…
Is The Customer Always Right?
I try to spend a few minutes each day reading up on ideas related to sound business practices. There is an unending source of good (and sometimes not so good) ideas for business management available. One of the ideas that…
Google Says “Find Your Niche”!
There are probably as many theories about how to optimize a web site for search engines as there are web developers who do search engine optimization. Some developers do a really good job of making a web site more “search…
A Little Code Won’t Kill You!
I’ve been actively involved in web development for more than ten years now, and that’s where I spend most of my day. Having had lots of success with getting our web sites found by Google and other search engines, I…
I Doubt If This Is Going To Solve The Energy Crisis
Duracell is getting lots of press for their promotional stunt of using a bunch of bicycle-powered generators to power the 2009 sign that will appear in Times Square on New Years Eve. While this may get Duracell lots of notice…
Why The Arts Won’t Be Exempt
If you think that those who work in the arts field or in businesses that provide support for the arts will be exempt from the economic downturn? Think again! I recently came across this article in the The Daily Tar…
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