Here’s an eye-opening post from Jason Calacanis on a former hacker employee of his. It’s Jason telling what must be a gut-wrenching story of a fellow who’s heading for a 48-month jail sentence for crimes related to computer security when he was an angry teenager. In the piece, Jaso...

As the toxic cloud of the Bush-Cheney era in America begins to lift, we are beginning to see the scope of the mess they’ve left us in.  The boys from Delta House have been partying hard for eight years, and now we’re supposed to move in and live here like nothing has happened?   The tr...

I’ve noticed it, and if you’ve driven past a Home Depot lately, you’ve probably noticed it, too:  A surge in the number of day laborers looking for a gig.  On the occasional morning I drive past the Home Depot at Sunset and St. Andrew Street.,  I see 40 or 50 men waiting outside...

Our November GameChanger of the Month selection was a slam dunk. Barack Obama is going to be America’s first baller president, and he’s going to be its first Improviser-in-Chief. His and his team’s ability to improvise their way to an election victory against rivals who were, initi...

Heather Champ, the Director of Community for Flickr, was the subject of Chris Colin’s Sept 29 On the Job blog on SFGate. Ethan Bauley, social networking entrepreneur for the online marketing company, M80, sent me the link, as he often does when business improvisation makes news. Heather Champ and ...

Hat tip to Rothman for this. I don't know if Stiennon is off his meds or simply needed to re-post something from 2001 to meet an editorial quota, but his Network World article titled "The Most Important Networking Trend of 2008" ties thus far with the "Evolution of Dance" as my v...

Yours truly was fortunate to exchange email messages between Aruba and Cisco regarding the announcement of the new Cisco Mobile Vision . In the email correspondence published below, Aruba scoffs at the Cisco announcement calling it markitecture . Cisco lunges back with how the Aruba argument complet...

“TRON came true,” says one of my geek friends, referencing the early 1980s film about a gamer played by Jeff Bridges who gets zapped into a digital universe inside the memory of a computer network. What my friend means is that today, entire populations are getting zapped into that digita...

A business scene staged by an Industrial Age organization likely as not involved a dispassionate analysis of the data, a detailed identification of the opportunity, and the thoughtful mobilization of resources necessary to capitalize on that opportunity. The absence of emotion was a characteristic o...

In March of this year, I wrote a post extolling the virtues of the sustainable clothing company, Nau. Last week, unable to secure another round of financing, Nau filed for bankruptcy and on Saturday, May 3, 2008, closed its doors. It was a sad day, the death of a beautiful brand.I have no idea what ...