Communication. Community. Commerce. These words share ancient Latin linguistic roots, and they all indicate some sort of coming together. War has been described variously as a breakdown of one or all of them.  The mainstream media typically portray the Middle East as a desert of war, but scattered ...

COBRA aid for layoffs is confusing Employers are confused about the COBRA revisions, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said: Confused over whether to calculate a person’s income before or after termination; whether people taking a buyout are eligible; on how to determine a spouse’s income. Many indiv...

Shepard Fairey is America's darling, ever since that Obama 'HOPE' poster. The AP looked like jerks when they complained about him stealing their photo. But! Fairey will sue your ass for stealing his brand, quick. See, if you try to sell anything featuring the word "Obey" you are totally stealing fro...

You can buy furniture, look for a job and seek an apartment on the popular online classified ad Web site Craigslist. But a quick check of the "erotic services" category for Seattle yields another possible transaction, one featuring a "tall, sexy, seductive blue eyed bombshell" calling herself "Emily...

President Obama has invited one of the more important lobbyists to Congress that the local health care industry has to discuss reforming America's health care system. He won't bring home any bacon for Middle Tennessee, but I bet he does so for Big Medicine. There are indications that he's going to p...

Many major retailers have been criticized for being slow to adapt to industry—especially Web-based—changes. But it’s not hard to see why when we see how the industry treats e-tail pioneers such as Amazon and Facebook.To be fair, both Amazon and Facebook got spanked for going too far in res...

urban planning, Kendall Square, Cambridge Wade Roush wrote: Companies, merchants, and residents in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge banded together last week to form the Kendall Square Association, a non-profit group whose mission, according to its new president Tim Rowe, is to “im...

Today I spoke at a combined meeting of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Visitors Bureau. My talk was on Building Brand Value and how to use branding to sell tourism in tough times. I brought along a few of my latest book, but certainly not enough for the group that came up after ...

We watched the penultimate teaching from The Truth Project this evening at church. It dealt with labor. I found it a good teaching, showing that work can be a joy because God Himself took joy in His work. Best of all, the teaching touched on the need for Christians to support the arts and those skil...

As a student of well-thought-out, creative E-Commerce initiatives, I was naturally excited to hear that as deep-pocketed and serious a chain as J.C. Penney was declaring an “innovative online experience” that was “one-of-a-kind” and demonstrated “leadership in the onlin...