A Blossom Doesn't Always Mean Fruit

Have you ever had a fruit tree? Or a garden? Nature can be humbling. As the first hint of spring hit weeks ago, fruit trees began to show their blossoms. If you do have a fruit tree, you are well aware of what comes next. You count the flowers, dreaming of all the perfect fruit you will harvest this year. However, once you have been through a few seasons, you realize many of those flowers won’t even germinate and turn into little buds. Even fewer will mature to be full size fruit. The same is true for every lead and prospect . . . Read the Article

 

Japan Assistance

If you are considering helping victims of the tragedy, please consider donating through an established, reputable organization such as the Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker

Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker:

Malcolm Gladwell has gotten his toes wet with twitter and is convinced it is more puddle than pond - let alone a revolutionary tidal wave for changing the world as we know it. The more things change....

NASA - NASA Funded Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow

NASA - NASA Funded Study Shows Desert Dust Cuts Colorado River Flow:

This is an interesting read regarding two things:
1. Water - we really do need to pay attention to how we get it now and in the future out here in the West.
2. The law of unintended consequences and the need to keep your ears peeled for them....

Sure There's Water, But Is It Safe To Drink?

Sure There's Water, But Is It Safe To Drink?:

There is a biological, self-preservative instinct in our need to go back to the same creek or well. Our reptilian brain makes the connection that we have drunk from this water source before; it’s safe to do so again . . .

We all experience this feeling, even in the business sense.

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Does It Work?

Many conversations I have with clients and friends will include a variation of the following question:

“Your ads, emails and marketing look nice enough, but do they work?”

If you trust these psychologists at Yale, it seems they do . . .

Is the web really dead? - Boing Boing

Once again Boing Boing offers some smart analysis of other people's analysis -- a-a-ah, critical thinking!

Everyone take note, you're allowed to question what you read!

I also love Wired. I respect their effort to encourage debate and discussion.

I greatly respect BoingBoing for checking the data and re-interpreting it.

In any case, give this / these a peek.

Is the web really dead? - Boing Boing

The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet - Wired Magazine