Genesys XVII
The 17th Annual Genesys Partners Venture Dinner — Gen XVII– Monday night at the Union League Club in New York attracted more than 100 venture capitalists, investors, journalists, entrepreneurs, and industry executives. As always, Jim Kollegger — CEO of Genesys Partners and one of the pioneers of the information industry — was an elegant master […]
Email Basics
The posting last week called “Unsubscribe” seemed to resonate with a lot of readers. Dave Hart from Johannesburg in South Africa agreed 100%, but pointed out that there is another equally frustrating problem with many web sites. He said that many sites use a “contact us” web page rather than providing an e-mail address. He […]
Music Album Sales in Nose-Down Dive
The Wall Street Journal reported that for the ninth time in 10 years, U.S. music album sales continued to decline. The total of CDs and digital albums purchased was 326 million while the number of individual songs purchased was 1.2 billion. The album purchases were up 13% while the individual songs were up just 1%. […]
Strawberries
There are a lot of subjects I do not know much about. One of them is genomics. I moderated a panel at a technology conference a few years ago that included three PhDs in bioinformatics and I learned enough to confirm how little I knew. I asked the three experts what book would enlighten me. […]
Unsubscribe
When writing Net Attitude back in the summer of 2001, one of the topics I included was netiquette, a set of social conventions I learned from David Singer and a few other IBMers who were steeped in Internet history. They taught me to not use ALL CAPS because in the culture of the Internet that […]