Our technological advancements are evidence of a vibrant culture of science and research. Yet science is largely left out of public policy making ...
What can a fool tell us when smart people have failed? I need to be clear by what I mean by "smart people" (there are all kinds of ...
THREE ways to get over our fear of blogging. It's easier than we think: getting over fear. Good thing, too. Fear is the very thing that stops us ...
The bigger question for free will is, what's its purpose? Of course, we have free will - it's the source of humanity's greatness and its worst ...
Feed your SEO strategy with a "Silo" of targeted SERP-focused content Grain silos are pretty fascinating inventions. Farmers harvest grain then ...
8 warning signs that your "SEO Expert" is about get your website banned. First, full disclosure - I am a recovered spamdexer - one of Google’s ...
The Google Endgame: why there's no more room for SEO cheats. If you were online in 1996 - 1999, you remember Alta Vista and the utter chaos of pure ...
Do we fight or join the media madness? I'll admit it... I am TOTALLY a social media voyeur. I enjoy watching how people react to the latest news ...
People complain that our leaders aren't what they used to be. The real question is - what can we do about it? These days, the cycle of blame for ...
Finally, I can say that my youth has gone. The ultimate YOUNG DUDE has passed away today. RIP David Bowie. Oh, am I being too dramatic about the ...
Three things that everyone can do to shed opinion bias. Adrian Vore of the San Diego Union-Tribune echos a long-held opinion among some that ...
An old friend posted a photo on his Facebook page. The image was of me, Peter Burke, and Steve Werblun caught in mid-stride into a ...
Caught a glimpse of the Space Shuttle Endeavour as it flew very close to my house today. The clip is quite short - but I was able to catch a few nice ...
Part II: Satiety - Negotiation through Moderation Continues from Part I Ideally, negotiations should result in some form of agreement that ...
Part I: The Measure of Success - with or without coals An old guy once told me that negotiation was like two men getting into a wagon. "Someone's ...
Get rid of your cultural stereotypes. International Business - words that provoke simultaneous mental eruptions of mystery, myth, and fear. And for ...
Control your costs. Trim your budgets. However, before you cut your marketing program, consider Cost-of-Acquisition. It's not an overthink. Global ...
Some smart guy once said that “familiarity is the breeding ground of all contempt for the law.” Maybe it was Machiavelli. I believe that it also ...
3 Reasons You Should Stop Relying on Ad Hoc Marketing Services There's a Latin phrase for just about every occasion and situation. As we all ...
The stories from Japan couldn't have been much grimmer. The earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, was devastating - on a magnitude that was very ...
PART II: The Kinetics Following Part I, my review of Jose Ortega's seminal book La rebelión de las masas, translated The Revolt of the Masses. ...
Monkeys, not withstanding... I just watched the 1960 film Inherit the Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer based on a play by Jerome Lawrence and ...
Part I: The scary stuff I have an unquenchable thirst for philosophical discussions that offer insight into communications: how we communicate, ...
I don't know how many journalists I have met who have said, "I'm working on a novel." Maybe it's like being a waiter who naturally aspires to be ...
I have grown weary of whiny journalists and pundits who have such a limited understanding of history and narrow appreciation for what it takes to ...
Why your content development strategy MUST still include print. What was it that they said when the "information super-highway" was first launched? ...
I'm a habitual coffee drinker, and I have people around me (doctors, mostly) poking at me to curtail the java for fear that I'll develop some ...
Can Poetry Save the Earth? I was rummaging through some notes and rediscovered this wonderfully written poem – probably one of my favorites. It is ...
This is a headline that stopped me completely: The U.S. Army's New Solar Power Plant Reflecting on the US Army's constant need for energy, I ...
OC METRO> UCI's Policano: Make Detroit our new China. Difficult times breed novel ideas. I like Policano's idea of sourcing work back to the ...
In our cost-driven, sped up world we've crashed into the culture of good enough. But is it good enough? What do we lose when we don't reward ...
The optimism I learned from Buddha, grows in my heart with Jesus. First, a little background. My father was a professed atheist. A smart man, but ...
"I saw a UFO once..." I was thinking about the extent of the Lord's grace and His peace when I thought of Snyder. I met the man while on my way ...
No matter where you are in this discussion philosophically or politically, the economy is coming back. Already, the American consumer is getting more ...
I've been bragging about my solar panels. I suppose it's time that I show folks what they look like. By the way, those panels are from First Solar - ...
CNN MONEY: How the profits stacked up - Nov. 2, 2009 Good solid news for the economy. On other online venues, I'm known for my high optimism ...
Looking forward to the end of a senseless prohibition. Back in 2009, Times Online writer Andrew Sullivan speculated the end of "senseless ...
I received an email today announcing that a defunct magazine that I once edited has won the "2009 Best of Laguna Beach Award" in the graphic arts ...
The chief cause for the American health care crisis isn't the cost – it's the debate. I like to start a shocking pseudo political dissertation ...
A million kids groaned when researchers from the University of Nebraska announced their finding earlier this month: homework is good for you, the ...
Move your niche with three basic content development rules. I was asked by a colleague to name the most efficient rules I use for content creation ...
How to cut a new angle from an old story to create a new one. Cynics say that the best ideas have been plucked to death. To me, an incurable ...
Guerrilla Marketing is not about working cheap. It's about working smarter - with a little help from geometry. Long before there were ...
I am a freelance public relations professional, writer, marcom specialist, social networker and expert communicator. But alas, I'm also a frustrated ...
Cue: Perry Como, "The Christmas Song," otherwise known as the "chestnut song." Do you hear the smooth tones dribbling over easy ...
About this time of year, it's Perry Como who takes me back to the happier days of my childhood. Specifically, Como crooning about the long tradition ...
My Hard-Won 6-Step Security Checklist Tell me if you've experienced any of these security events: You've noticed a spike in email from various ...
Paul Simon says there are at least 50 ways to leave your lover. I'll have to take his word for it. I've been on the receiving end of three - and ...
The Site is Alive. Now, I'm Going Sailing. Heavypen.com was my first website. I launched it in 1997. The pic on the right is as the site ...
