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• Stealing Story Ideas

  May 11th, 2006 | Tags: Writing

  First, NY Times writer Jayson Blair plagiarized. Then A Million Pieces writer James Frey who said the work was nonfiction when it was fiction. Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code is under suspicion. Now How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life by Kaavya Viswanathan has passages from two books by Megan McCafferty. The [...]

• Reporting Accurate Facts

  May 10th, 2006 | Tags: Writing

  This was a fascinating story to write — Judge Rules Internet Surfing at Work Is OK — as I had an opportunity to interview New York City’s Law Department chief of labor and employment law. She made it clear this was not a court case. Rather it was a case that went to the City’s Office [...]

• Brainstorming Names

  May 9th, 2006 |

  I love brainstorming ideas for a new company name. I guess you could call me a name freak. Every case is different, but here are the basic tips I tend to follow when hunting for inspiration: Randomly flip through the dictionary. Take words and mixing or subbing letters. Say names out loud. Pick a handful of words and [...]

• Customer Service and Loyalty

  May 9th, 2006 |

  Guy Kawasaki discusses The Art of Customer Service. He offers ten tips for successful customer service. Unfortunately, all culture changes must have buy-in from the C-level executives and direct reports. And this doesn’t mean getting buy-in for earning a piece of paper that says you’re Six Sigma or CMM certified. It means living and breathing [...]

• Full-time Freelancing Advice

  May 4th, 2006 | Tags: freelance

  Full-time freelancing: 10 more things provides a useful list of things he learned in his first year of freelancing full-time as a Web designer. Though it focuses on Web design, much of the advice if useful for other business. Here’s my commentary from a freelance writer’s perspective. Speed: I try to work fast when doing freelance [...]

• Fish Teeth Reveal When Atlantic and Pacific Oceans United

  May 3rd, 2006 |

  Scientists studying ancient fish teeth have now proposed that the passageway where the Pacific and Atlantic oceans join began opening around 41 million years ago, much earlier than originally estimated. In spite of being the size of a grain of sand, Fossil fish teeth have a wealth of a rare Earth element known as neodymium (Nd). [...]

• Google Lights a Fire for Firefox

  May 1st, 2006 |

  The campaigns to promote Firefox and demote Internet Explorer keep coming and Google tops them all by promoting Firefox on its home page–prime ad estate–along with the its Toolbar. For a limited time on Wednesday, April 26, users in the U.S. surfing with Internet Explorer saw a one-liner that read, “Firefox with Google Toolbar: tabbed [...]

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