Gil Friend’s Blog

Some say that for a matter to rise to a CEO's attention, it has to have enough zeros at the back of it -- that is, enough money has to be at stake to command the attention of a very busy and very focused person (focused, one would hope, on the big picture and the long...

WorldChanging - A User's Guide for the 21st Century - releases tomorrow. If you like the site, you'll like the book, lauded as this century's Whole Earth Catalog. (If you don't like the site, you probably wouldn't be reading my blog either. If you don't _know_ the...

From ADPSR, we get this quote of the day from BBC's Culture Schock: 'No company, regardless of what they make, can now just make a product, bung it out there, and then forget about it,' she said. 'We all have a duty of care to ensure that from cradle to grave products...

[AppleInsider]: Greenpeace forced out of MacExpo Environmental advocacy group Greenpeace was forced to shut down it booth at the MacExpo in London on Thursday after show organizers claimed to have received complaints from "unnamed sources," according to a report at...

Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz, talking about Sun's Project Blackbox 'virtual' (as in portable) data centers: I was talking to the CIO of a large financial institution last week. He told me he was in the midst of building out two new datacenters, spending...

Congressman Sam Farr at the San Benito conference: The #1 request from visiting Japanese delegations to the City of Carmel wasn't 'where's Clint Eastwood?' It was 'could we get a copy of your zoning code?'

Blogging today from this day-long conference in Hollister CA (90 miles south of San Francisco, in San Benito County -- home to world garlic capital Gilroy) The conference is produced by BALLE, the Business Network for Living Local Economies. The goals: 1. balance the...

[di-ve.com]: Chamber participates in EUROCHAMBRES' Training on Corporate Social Responsibility European companies eager to incorporate Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in their business practices, will have a highly qualified partner to rely on: their local...

Matt Hohmann of the ever-stimulating non-billable hour passes on this tip from Kevin Kelley: Stroke, Stroke, Stroke! Kevin Kelly passes on this tip to identify when someone is having a stroke: Sometimes symptoms of a stroke are difficult to identify. But doctors say a...