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Aurora, Illinois is going to get free, city-wide Wi-Fi. That’s 42 square miles and 170,000 residents who will benefit from a service paid for by advertising. Nice. Wonder when Adelaide will benefit from such a service?
In a bizarre twist to the ‘cartoons’ fiasco that has fanned the flames of extremism, South Park is going to ‘take on’ Scientology, not a religious group known for its tolerance of criticism. This should be TV worth watching!
Shel (the ‘other’ one) gives yet further evidence of why CEOs must learn to communicate with their troops. Compelling reading and forwarding material…
In what can only, prima facie, appear a bizarre decision, it would seem that the Australian Government is going to phone tap people brave enough to call in to the Terrorist Hotline. A decision that will really make people want to call in, hey? What genius thought of that?
Trevor Cook points to a report on Blog Business Summit about Business and its fear of joining the conversation (aka ‘blogging’). Trevor makes the insightful comment that there are no ‘rules’ when it comes to jumping into the sandpit (apart from ‘play nice’ and ‘do unto others as you would have them do unto you’, of course). Trevor points out that once in the sandpit, you will in time develop a blogging style of your own, just as over time you developed a management style and a public speaking style suitable for your own personality. Doing begats understanding and better doing. Mind you, I hope the manners of our community are a little better now than during the Kryptonite debacle — I am surprised Donna Tocci bothered to join in at all after her lambasting by some.
That magnificent blog Presentation Zen (mandatory reading for my clients) has been a wealth of ideas and inspiration to me since I was first pointed to it by Seth Godin months and months ago. A couple of recent posts has prompted to me to say “I do that, too!”. I save all my presentations as pdfs and keep them on my flash drive and my mp3 player (not an iPod but come next business trip that will be rectified 
). Garr also links to those who create non-boring powerpoints/keynotes and (one I’d missed) a superb 21-year-old paper from a scientist on why boring presenters should be stoned (as in the biblical, not the herbal).
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