The More Things Change… Airline Addition

The more things change, the more they stay the same. We recently stopped by a vintage bookstore in Cape Cod, which carried old magazines, including copies of Science Illustrated dated back to 1947.  There’s amazing stuff in here, but let me quote the first...

The Price of Healthcare

My mom called me up in tears this morning.  We’ll get to the reason in a few moments- let’s first talk about her medical conditions. My mom, Janet Schumacher, turned 65 this year. Following an episode of pancreatitis that damaged a good portion of her...

Businesses in Trouble

We are book people.  I love browsing through bookshops, and have ever since I was kid. My favorite book shop growing up started out as a used book store called “The Village Green” in Rochester, NY.  It was around the corner from our house, and I could go...

Using the Tools at Hand

Chris Penn had an interesting post on his blog today that boils down to this point:  It’s in the way that you use it.  Just like the Eric Clapton song says: It’s in the way that you use it, It comes and it goes. It’s in the way that you use it, Boy...

Extending the Conversation

The conversations and people I have met through podcasting, social media channels like Twitter and events like Podcamp in its various forms and incarnations have changed my life. It’s not just that I have made great friends who I never would have met otherwise,...

Reputation

Reputation is a tricky thing.  Ben Franklin said, ““It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it”.  It’s at once your most valuable possession, but one of the most fragile as well. Online, we all build a digital...