Look­ing for some­thing to read? Seth Godin has an excel­lent e-book enti­tled Flip­ping the Fun­nel avail­able for free down­load on his site or from the link below. It is an excel­lent book. If you have never read his stuff before, it is a great way to check out his writ­ing. The book ref­er­ences Del.icio.us, Flickr, …read more

Peo­ple often ask me, “Where do you get the time to find all the things you talk about on your blog?” The real answer is I don’t find it, it finds me; via RSS. I love to pimp RSS (Really Sim­ple Syn­di­ca­tion). It is the way I typ­i­cally nav­i­gate the web, and has broad­end my …read more

This is an exam­ple of what I see as true syn­ergy for a father. Jack John­son doing the sound­track for the upcom­ing Curi­ous George movie. Let me explain. My daugh­ter just turned two. Last Hal­loween she dressed up as Curi­ous George and I was the Man with the Yel­low Hat. We had a great time …read more

You may be ask­ing your­self, “why the heck did he write the word deli­cious with all those peri­ods in the title?” If so than than this post is for you. Del.icio.us is a social book­mark­ing web site, or actu­ally a com­mu­nity of them. Del.icio.us allows users to “Tag” web pages that they enjoy or find …read more

This week’s thank you post was inspired by a meet­ing I was involved in this morn­ing. I was asked to intro­duce myself and tell the group some­thing about me that they prob­a­bly did not know. I vol­un­teered the fact that from 8^th grade through col­lege and for a cou­ple years beyond, I was the lead …read more

Seth Godin is releas­ing a new book at the end of the sum­mer enti­tled Small is the New Big — also the title of one of Seth’s best posts. The book will be a col­lec­tion of some of the best rants and obser­va­tions posted over the last few years on Seth’s blog, one of the …read more

5ives is an enter­tain­ing site updated some­what spo­rad­i­cally by Mer­lin Mann, also of 43 fold­ers.  It con­sists of lists of 5 things related to a topic.  He recently posted a list of 5 decid­edly un-super super­groups– a per­fect assess­ment in my book.  I fre­quently find myself laugh­ing at these lists, and thought you might enjoy …read more

Thanks to Adrants for point­ing me to this gem from White Cas­tle.  In their lat­est mar­ket­ing push, White Cas­tle is encour­ag­ing peo­ple to take the day after the Super­bowl off of work– cre­at­ing a new de facto hol­i­day.  You can even sign a peti­tion to legit­imize the day.  Take it from me, if you sit …read more