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Think You Have a Book in You? Think Again

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/28/opinion/28EPST.html Think You Have a Book in You? Think Again By JOSEPH EPSTEIN EVANSTON, Ill. According to a recent survey, 81 percent of Americans feel they have a book in them — and that they should write it. As the author of 14...

Bull Market / Bear Market

Introducing ORIGINS… a new feature on FOIB that is even more trivial than the rest of FOIB. Ever wondered where expressions come from? Ever wonder why people use such funny slang? Ask now, and FOIB (okay, Google) answers:

Steal This Column..

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020926.html Steal This Column Criticism Won’t Change the DMCA, but Breaking the Law Will By Robert X. Cringely After last week’s column about BayTSP and its CEO, Mark Ishikawa, I received hundreds of critical...

The Baby Bells Suck, Too!

http://www.forbes.com/2002/09/27/0927sbc_print.html Telecom The Bells Sing The Blues, On Cue Mark Lewis, 09.27.02, 12:16 PM ET When a firm announces bad news, generally it crafts a news release brimming with positive spin to put the best possible light on the...

Re: FW: Apple Cell Phone

I’m going to take some risk here and go on record stating that although I am 100% conviced that there is an “iPhone”, this ain’t it. I’ll even go further to say that the logical partner to build the iPhone is SONY/Ericsson, and not...

Mobitex vs. GPRS

A direct quote from Yours Truly in 1994, when I was building the web presence for a company that later became InfoWave Wireless Networks: “This is stupid. Nobody’s going to want to just access their email on mobile devices — people want to surf the...