Phontabulous

Phontabulous

The internet (including this blog) is awash in whiny complaints. Evidently it’s human nature to covet the grass on the other side of the fence… ah, so much greener! In our increasingly-competitive culture we’re all prone to gleeful schadenfreude at...
Garbage In, Garbage Out

Garbage In, Garbage Out

The Obama administration is bulldozing forward with a new package of cybersecurity laws, which (if passed) could make or break countless digital age corporations. The GOP is spinning in circles over it, their collective psyche split in half: the...
Fatuous Chance

Fatuous Chance

TThe corporate juggernaut rolls on. As I pen these words, the Supreme Court of the United States adjudicates the case of a 75-year-old Indiana farmer, Vernon Bowman, in a legal dispute against the world’s largest seed company, The Umbrella Corporation— whoops!...
The Sweet Spoils of Imaginary Advancement

The Sweet Spoils of Imaginary Advancement

Happy Valentine’s Day! Can you feel the love tonight? The sharks are really in the water when it comes to social networking sites these days. The rise and fall of the most popular ones is cyclic, though, and it follows a predictable model: Social media sites use...
Rise of the Scrummaster

Rise of the Scrummaster

It’s been a weird week in the news. The Pope just handed in his resignation, which means another seriously old guy must soon be appointed to the post of Holy Father, or (in non-Catholic language) “that super-rich foreign dude who gets to wear the most...
Know The Signs

Know The Signs

When Corporate Capitalism intrudes into areas that should logically be run according to a strictly non-profit model, things get out of whack and you have the School District Administrators of bankrupt school districts getting $100k raises while kids in their district...