Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman is dead at 89. The Local calls his work immortal, as did many of his colleagues.
Until now I’ve been misremembering the title of one of his movies as Three Smiles of a Summer Night, a 1955 romantic comedy. I’d say that most of his works I’d seen were depressing and [...]

Posted July 30, 2007 by Casey Bisson
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Scott Berkun, the author of The Art of Project Management just blogged about the data death spiral:
Whenever data is misused as the only means for making decisions, a death spiral begins. The lust for data overwhelms all sensibilities. Cowardly decision makers howl in glee at reams of unnecessary data, while bright people sit handcuffed to [...]

Posted November 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: art of project management, bad decisions, bright people, creative, creative people, creative types, creatives, death, death spiral, group think, guess, handcuffed, howl, instincts, scott berkun, sensibilities, supporting material, unnecessary data. Be the first one.

Reuters: FEMA accused of censorship:
“It’s impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story,” said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors’ group that defends free expression.
Brian Williams’ MSNBC Nightly News Blog:
While we were attempting [...]

Posted September 9, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: brian williams, bush, bushh, catastrophe, censor, censor this, censorship, dead bodies, death, fema, george bush, george w bush, government, government censors, government censorship, hurricane, hurricane katrina, joshua micah marshall, katrina, louisiana, media, msnbc nightly news, national guard, new orleans, nola, pen american center, shame, talking points memo, w. 2 Comments.