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• Boston Globe Endorses John Barros and So Do I

  

  In a rare full-page editorial, the Boston Globe today endorses two of the 12 candidates for Boston's preliminary mayoral election next Tues: John Barros and Joh... Read more

  Posted on 17 September 2013 BUSINESS

• Lifetime Learning in Newton -- Beginning Sept 16

  I got one of those delicious little gigs this summer, the kind that's satisfying to do, short in duration, and which puts you in touch with great people. Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 BUSINESS

• "Collective Sensemaking:" Author Nancy Dixon Looking for Participants

  My colleague, Nancy Dixon, author, knowledge expert, and insightful thinker, is writing a new book about "Collective Sensemaking," which happens, she posits,... Read more

  Posted on 21 August 2013 BUSINESS

• Here's a Way to Start the Peace Talks: See MetroPAL.IS.

  On a recent road trip, we broke up hundreds of miles of driving by stopping at a few museums (including the admission-free/don't-miss-it-next-time-you're-there... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2013 BUSINESS

• Office 365: "This Will Take 45 Minutes"

  Although I won't post any more about my hard drive crash, I do have other sequella to report. For example, if you are like me, i.e. Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 BUSINESS

• Back Up, Backed Up, And, Whew, My Mail...

  

  Four weeks (it all began on July 3), a new hard drive (OWC solid state replacement of solid state that failed in 8 months), a new logic board, and $420 later, m... Read more

  Posted on 01 August 2013 BUSINESS

• Roland's July Newsletter (with a "Note from a Reader," I.e. Me)

  A few months ago, Peter Sarno, Roland Merullo's publisher for Lunch with Buddha, among other titles at PFP Publishing (here's the story of how Roland came to... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 BUSINESS

• 200 Calories in Pictures Via wiseGEEK Via artFido Via Jim Clark

  

  Via Jim Clark on Facebook, this photo series from artFido ("fetching art"), which it got from wiseGeek ("clear answers for simple questions") with different... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2013 FOOD & DRINK, HEALTH

• Lindy Hess Changed Our Lives and So Many Others

  

  It was 3 AM and I woke, cold, which, given the heat of the past weeks, seemed impossible. None of my tricks for getting back to sleep was working so I engaged i... Read more

  Posted on 21 July 2013 BUSINESS

• And While We're on the Subject of Customer service...Sanita

  

  You know those wonderful clogs, the ones you think come only from Dansko? Turns out the originator is the Danish company, Sanita ("we’ve been making cozy,... Read more

  Posted on 20 July 2013 BUSINESS

• Hard-drive Crash #2

  

  Call me unlucky (but it is a story ultimately about virtual teams, so thanks, sort of, computer). For the second time in just about four years, I've had a... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2013 BUSINESS

• Boston: "The Engaged City"

  

  Catherine Shinners at work (Cisco office, Madison, WI, Sept 19, 2012) My friend and colleague, Catherine Shinners, blogged from the E2 Conference here in... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2013 BUSINESS

• Bear Killed in My Neighborhood!

  

  I live the village of West Newton, in a city of 85,000, eight miles from Boston. The Massachusetts Turnpike runs through it. As do trains, cars, bikes, and a... Read more

  Posted on 04 June 2013 BUSINESS

• Decide to Network by Robert Muller

  

  Every now and then, we get a request for copies of the "Decide to Network" postcard, backstory here. One such came yesterday, prompting me, post-Boston Marathon... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 BUSINESS

• The Virtual Winner: The First Pulitzer to a Distributed News Organization

  In a way, all news organizations are distributed, i.e. you can't really get most breaking news stories without showing up. But newsrooms have been the energy... Read more

  Posted on 18 April 2013 BUSINESS

• Roland Merullo: Importing Common Sense from Cuba

  Roland, author of so many books including his recent Lunch with Buddha (as well as a novel about Cuba completely unrelated to this story, Fidel's Last Days),... Read more

  Posted on 13 April 2013 BUSINESS

• Sylvia Nasar's Statement About Her Suit Against Columbia

  

  Photo by Dario Cantatore/Getty Images from NY Times, March 19, 2013 Earlier this week, Sylvia Nasar, author of A Beautiful Mind and a tenured professor at the... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2013 BUSINESS

• Bebé Boomers: Mas Media's Raul Medina on America 2050

  Fascinating thinking on what the 2012 election tells us about our changing culture in the US on boston.com, "We've come (and are going) a long way, bebé. Read more

  Posted on 20 March 2013 BUSINESS

• Jim Ware to Yahoo: "You've Got a Management System Problem"

  Take a listen to my colleague, Jim Ware's interview last night, on Turi Ryder's WGN radio show on "The perks and catches of working remotely. Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 BUSINESS

• Marissa, We Need to Talk: This Genie is Way out of the Bottle

  

  Dear Marissa, Apparently, I'm not the only one who has a word or two to say to you. Tom Ashbrook (On Point, "Yahoos Ban on Working From Home") is holding forth... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2013 BUSINESS