Tuesday, August 17, 2004 at 12:12PM To date, Ernie Miller has identified and analyzed at least 28 technologies potentially limited or restricted by the Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act, including credit card companies and TiVo To Go. Spend some time with Hatch's Hit List. Then check out Congressman Boucher's thoughtful post (at Larry Lessig's) and responses to commenters: Induce No More.
Monday, August 16, 2004 at 1:13PM Grant Henninger thinks Wells Fargo holds the title for "Best line in any ad. Ever." He may be right. I just heard the ad that prompted Grant's excitement, and it does rock out loud that Wells has its lemonade-and-free-checking hawking youngster explain, when asked if she can print out statements, "I'm not allowed to use the computer since I got sued for downloading music."
Wells has strong competition though from the Co-Op Network for credit unions, which promises (on its billboard at the 405/110 interchange, and elsewhere) ATMs "Out the Wazoo!"
Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 9:04PM New York Lawyer: "In a few years' time, Reed Smith hopes to be the first major law firm staffed entirely by alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of business." [Link added. Disclaimer: I work, er, study there.]
Sunday, August 15, 2004 at 7:03AM She pulled up next to me in her diesel Mercedes with the bad brakes and confirmed it: I've become someone who looks like she knows where Build-A-Bear is. "Where's Build-A-Bear?" she pressed, without even so much as a good morning. And mind you this was while the stroller and baby were still well concealed in my car.
Thing is: I knew. Made having the kid at the Genius Bar dispatch my phone-syncing glitch in about two seconds somehow even more humiliating.
Friday, August 13, 2004 at 8:56PM This seemed like an appropriate thing to point to today, from Fast Company's piece on Jeff Bezos:
"With respect to investors, there's a great Warren Buffettism," [Bezos] says. "You can hold a rock concert and that can be successful, and you can hold a ballet and that can be successful, but don't hold a rock concert and advertise it as a ballet. If you're very clear to the outside world that you're taking a long-term approach, then people can self-select in . . . As Buffett says, you get the shareholders you deserve."
