by Jeff Yablon | Jun 17, 2010 | Business Process, Media
When I grow up, I want to be half as adept as President Barack Obama is at the art of business negotiation. In announcing his agreement with British Petroleum getting the oil conglomerate to put aside $20 billion to fund clean-up and damages from the oil spill from BP...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 16, 2010 | Business Process, Media
On the Internet, where pornography is the single largest business, questions like “what is porn?” take on a whole new meaning. Forget what we’ve learned watching the US Supreme Court try to answer the question, or from that famous lawsuit in...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 15, 2010 | Business Process
This weekend news broke that the existing security laws in Finland making it a crime to leave your Wi-Fi signal open and unencrypted might be on their way out. Not being from Finland or an expert in their legal goings-on, my reaction was predictable: That’s...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 14, 2010 | Business Process
Two of my favorite marketing guys are Chris Brogan and Seth Godin. Both occupy space in my personal Rolodex, and both are brilliant. I’ve picked on Chris a few times lately, while Seth’s been largely missing from these pages for a few months. Well,...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 11, 2010 | Business Process
What kind of computer do you use? Are your files all stored on a hard drive in that computer, on a network drive, or off in the cloud somewhere? What software do you like? Do any of these questions matter? More and more, the answer is no. There was a time when the...
by Jeff Yablon | Jun 10, 2010 | Business Process, Media
I’m a nice guy. I swear, it’s true. But I take the contrarian view on lots of issues, and that can make dealing with me quite a challenge. I know this about myself. And I lay it right out and accept that there are going to be people who like me and others...