On Apple, Wiley, and the Spurning of Books

In retaliation for John Wiley and Sons’ forthcoming publication of an unauthorized biography of Steve Jobs, Apple has instructed that all Wiley books be removed from the shelves of all Apple retail stores. The story first broke publicly Tuesday in Mercury News’ Silicon Valley Report. Later the story was picked up by Associated Press. Bloggers […]

There’s Enough Idiocy in the World . . .

Without adding to it with statements like this, from Dave Weiner:

I’m not pro-war, but all the estimates of what it would cost to win the war I’ve heard are missing one thing. We can pay for reconstructing Iraq by pumping oil. We can also pay ourselves back for the cost of the war.

This is astonishingly […]

Wanker Management: The IT Plague

In response to a comment by John Udell What if being non-communicative weren’t an option?, itself part of an extended conversation spurred by a Fortune article on Esther Dyson about institutional information sharing, or “knowledge management” if you want to be jargonish, Dorothy Salo, of Caveat Lector, blogs:

Wanker management believes that the company has One […]