Saturday April 27, 2024

Better Than Nothing?

Ten Democratic candidates for president “debate” tonight and 10 more tomorrow night.  There is no time for them to get into issues and there are too many of them.  They are in the stage because it is a first — and perhaps, last — chance to be in the national limelight.  For most, it won’t […]

Essential

It is essential for  online information purveyors to catch cheaters because crooks diminish the credibility of the companies’ services. Consider Google Maps.  Millions of businesses have posted false location and phone information in order to dupe potential customers.  Google is working hard to root them out, but it has a long way to go, and it […]

Off For A Week

I’m taking a week off while traveling.  I’ll be back Monday, June 24.   Tweet This Post

The Big Lie

Habitual prevaricators tend to believe lies they tell, even when presented with evidence to the contrary.  Here is a case.  Trump is claiming his internal polling shows him ahead in every state his campaign has surveyed.  Other polls not from his campaign show him well behind.  Trump is not the only one to believe himself […]

Losing The Workforce

A struggling company faces a challenge when it loses the confidence and dedication of its workforce.  In order to turn around it needs hard work from employees and not complaints and slow-downs.  This is the HR problem Tesla is facing.  Workers are losing faith in the company and its leadership.  Meanwhile, Tesla continues its struggle […]

Looking For A Market

Boston Dynamics, the research company that builds pedal robots, is releasing its first product, called Spot.  Spot is a yellow and black quadruped canine whose head is a television camera and teeth a robot arm.  The only challenge for Spot is whether the marketplace needs a robot that can walk like a dog and is […]

Unintended Consequences

Sephora, the beauty products retailer, is facing a social media storm that comes from an Instagram mistake.  An online query whether it shipped to Israel followed by another query whether it shipped to Palestine produced a botched answer through no fault of Sephora.“Sephora does not ship to Israel or the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories of Gaza […]

Smart Publicity

Young Russians have no memory or understanding of the notorious Gulags that incarcerated 20 million people under Stalin.  The Gulag History Museum set out to change that.  Rather than writing history targeted to youth, it chose the graphic novel to tell survivors’ stories.  This is smart publicity — reaching an audience through familiar and universal visual media.  […]

Too Soon To Declare Victory

This article posits that Joe Biden is only running against himself and not the other 22+ candidates for President in the Democratic party.  But, it is too soon to declare him the front-runner.  There are an innumerable series of PR and publicity gaffes that can occur before the first primaries in 2020.  Biden has been […]