Magazines fail all the time, but it’s hard not to look at them as signs of something larger. MacWEEK’s fizzle was claimed to represent the demise of the Mac, Computer Shopper has lost more weight than a Slim Fast spokesmodel (800 pages to 80 in ten years!). And now Business 2.0 Magazine is shutting down [...]

Posted October 2, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: business 2.0, failure, magazine, magazines. 2 Comments.

A: Because we compare them to the wrong things.
I’m in training today for a piece of software used in libraries. It’s the second of three days of training and things aren’t going well. Some stuff doesn’t work, some things don’t work the first (second, third…ninth) time, and other things just don’t make sense. At [...]

Posted May 4, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: bad answers, compare, comparison, competition, crap, developers, development, failure, future libraries, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, software, startups, suck, sucks, sucky, training, vendors. 14 Comments.

Frank Rich’s New York Times op-ed column today was full of the kind of easy one-liners that repressives conservatives usually like to use against honest people progressives. I got it from my friend Joe, but because The New York Times thinks their content is golden, they won’t let me link you to the full-text. Eh, [...]

Posted April 30, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: 1000 days, bush, dubya, failure, falsehoods, frank rich, george bush, george w, george w bush, iraq, iraq war, lies, op-ed, political expediencies, w, war, war crimes. 3 Comments.