Could Disappearing Ink Catch On?

It sounds like a bad gag straight out of a magician’s act, but disappearing ink suddenly has a future.  Xerox is experimenting with a type of paper on which ink disappears after a while, making the paper re-usable.  This of course would cut down on paper waste, ink, and the energy needed to print documents.  [...]

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Support Record Store Day!

Tomorrow, Saturday the 19th of April, is Record Store Day.  Get off your butt, log off of iTunes, get out of the house, and go buy a record!  (Album, CD, whatever floats your boat.)  I hope the link is working by the time you click on it.  At the time I posted it wasn’t working worth a darn.
Here [...]

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When Competition = Opportunity

I recently posted about Amazon’s 10-K listing publishers (and just about everyone else) as potential competitors.  A colleague whose opinion I admire greatly commented on that post elsewhere, and those comments gave me a second wind of thought.
See, Amazon is right on in looking at even their own vendors and partners as competitors.  (I just [...]

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Vote for the Worst Company in America

Or is it vote AGAINST the worst company in America?  Always second-guessing myself with the whole grammar thing.
Voting is live at the Consumerist.  Speak up!  Be heard! Make a difference!
Or just vent.
The bracketed field of 64 companies is here.
(What is it about brackets that makes my heart race?)
The first available matchup on which you can [...]

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Name That Leader

I just read one of the most fascinating, disturbing articles I’ve ever read about a particular person of business fame.  I’ll say little more.  Instead, I’ve clipped from the article a big batch of quotes, facts, and opinions about this person.  Now, I only pulled the controversial, negative parts.  I didn’t make these up, and [...]

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Wiley Indy (er, Fishers) & Crosspoint Corporate Center

Looks like Wiley Indy will soon have company.
There’s long been a stretch of relatively untouched land right across the street from Wiley’s Indianapolis office here on Crosspoint Boulevard.  We even have a spot of woods between us and Interstate 69.  It appears the Town of Fishers has found a new use for this land.
A little background.
First, [...]

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And Now, the WORST Company in America…

This link should lead you to The Consumerist’s annual poll to find the WORST COMPANY in AMERICA.  I like this for a few reasons:

Every company should be held accountable.

This stirs up lots of good debate.

It’s one small way to fight back against bad business.

It makes for great practice: Only a couple weeks until NCAA basketball brackets!

The [...]

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I Like Barnes & Nobles’ New Return Policy

Retailers seem to be cracking down on returns lately, and I don’t really blame them. I’m all for fairness if a product is defective, or the wrong size, but you have to draw the line somewhere.  The customer isn’t right if the customer is trying to rip you off.
Barnes & Noble made some waves this [...]

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Don’t be a Tool, Be a Multi-tool.

In your work life, how functional are you? How many things are you good at, and how quickly and easily can you switch from one of your functions to another?  What about your company or your business unit or your department?

Are you a hammer, capable only of beating on the problem at hand?
Or a screwdriver, [...]

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