Reporting the Facts
The New York Daily News screamed that the horrible attack at the Annapolis Star was caused by right-wing extremism against the media. Sean Hannity, responding to the event, who is a conservative commentator, said that he predicted liberal Congressional Representative Maxine Waters
Facing Facebook
Starting your day on Facebook can be even more depressing than the slanted, early morning news. Here are some of the tropes that are widely used and also useless: • Why can't we do that in the US? This usually cites
Discretion
On the shuttle to the airport this morning in San Francisco I sat among two pilots and a flight attendant from American Airlines. They were discussing the best places to drink, with the cheapest liquor, in Las Vegas. I was happy
Are You Enjoying My Prior Request About Your Enjoyment?
All of these new privacy announcements are invading my privacy. Hotel surveys spoil my happiness with the hotel. Servers asking me if I'm enjoying my meal are interrupting my meal. It's not sufficient to have good intentions. You need to evaluate
Kloutless
Klout.com has gone out of business. All those people measuring their social media standings as if they meant anything are now bereft. They'll have to go back to "click-throughs" or "likes" or "reacts" or other nonsense to bolster fragile egos. I
Free Griping
I've found that people receiving something for free are more demanding than people who are paying for a service or product! There seems to be a bizarre sense of entitlement that accompanies the "freebie." When I've spoken pro bono for many association
TED: Tedious, Excessive Delivery
I know this is politically incorrect, but it seems to me that there are only about ten topics on TED that keep repeating with a different person each time. How many 20-minute, carefully choreographed talks on saving the planet, recovering
Instant Fame, Just Add Money and Zero Self-Respect
I heard about a speaker in the sales business—a name you'd recognize if you're in that business—who was selling book testimonials. That's right, if you want his endorsement on a book it costs thousands of dollars. I've encountered speakers bureaus which
Don’t Worry ‘Bout Me
This is probably my character flaw, but one of the most irritating things I find on Facebook, that is also totally self-absorbed, is people "marking themselves safe" when some disaster or tragedy strikes their general geographic area. It's as if
Sweepers
I increasingly deal with people who just want to get the problem off their desk and onto someone else's. They don't want to be bothered with work, and customers just get in the way of trying to be totally unproductive.