I was riding in a taxi the other day. The driver had the radio on. I don't like to tell drivers who have their radios on to turn them off. First, if it's not too loud, I figure it's their home for 10-12 hours per day and they have the...

It is my understanding that by the time we get to Web 4.0 everything we do will be up in the cloud. All our writing, our spreadsheets, our photos, our videos, all up in the cloud, wherever that is. I guess it will be like heaven. Nobody knows where that...

China is growing triple digits as we politely chug along toward greater mediocrity. Sarah Palin is topping the charts. Winter is coming in. My 401K is still under water. War in the East is widening. Bonuses will hit record highs on Wall Street this year. Do all these things...

Today it is reported that Donald Trump, clearly not feeling the pinch of the times, is upgrading his mode of travel and putting his old 1968 private jet on the block. A nice tour of the facilities may be found here on this very site.

As jets go, it's pretty...

I've been in a good mood all week about the announcement that Warren Buffett was investing $32 billion in Burlington Northern Santa Fe, the nation's 2nd largest railroad. "From my standpoint, it's a lot easier to make a $32 billion investment than 10 $3 billion investments," Mr. Buffett said, and...

Reaction is mixed to the big new eBay advertising campaign, "Come to think of it -- eBay." Of course, reaction to anything is mixed these days. Anybody who does anything worth noting is stuck like a shish kebab by somebody who's got a bone to pick with something or another.

Those who were enjoying a weekend of high sports drama or familial bliss might have missed another media obituary this past Sunday -- David Carr's persuasive au revoir to business journalism in the New York Times.

Carr cites several "technical reasons underlying the collapse -- and that's what it is...

The Case of the Northwest Pilots keeps getting funnier and funnier. Of course, it wouldn't be one bit amusing if it had happened to me, but as Woody Allen once said, when I get a hangnail, it's tragedy; when you fall down the stairs, it's comedy. Or maybe it wasn't...

Today is This Is It Day in Los Angeles. All the theaters at the swank new multiplex downtown are devoted to the premiere of Michael Jackson's new posthumous movie, a lovely, gift-wrapped sausage made up of everything they could find on the floor after the Grade A beef left the...

I got a Universal Remote. Have any of you ever had one that worked? This one didn't. Doesn't. Won't.

I've had them in the past. But sometimes when you have an object that disappoints you, you try again a few years later. Like, a while back I tried to set...

So it's finally coming down. The pay czar has studied the situation. Thought about it. And declared his intention to send a message. Pay for the top 175 executives at the financial institutions that took a bailout are to have their base pay cut by as much as 90%, and...

All it would take would be a little legislation.

How about this: Let's have a federal bill that states that any bank that took a bailout loan and hasn't paid it back yet isn't permitted to foreclose on anybody's primary residence. In addition, bonuses for senior officers at lending institutions...

1. Say "Happy Boss's Day" to your boss. Without irony, if possible.
2. If you have a problem on the job, do not bring it to your boss on this day without also carrying with you an appropriate solution. This will be a nice change for some of you.
3. If there is...

A few months ago, I had dinner with a friend of mine who's in the magazine business. "Business Week is for sale," I said. "You guys want to buy it?"

"I don't think we need any more liabilities," he replied.

Of course, I knew where he was coming from, and...

Fall is just busting out all over. You can hardly stand up safely the good news is just flying around so fast.

The Dow, for instance, is about to go over 10,000 again. Won't that be nice? Sure....

News that Americans Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson have won the Nobel Prize for economics sent the already contentious community of social scientists into a predictable tizzy.

Several factors seem to have catapulted the two, who were separately lauded for their respective work, to the top rank of a...

You know, I think it's kind of nice how my bank is always thinking of new ways to help me. It's been like that my whole life. When I was a kid, for instance, my dad took me downtown to the First National Bank, which was right next door to...

You've got to hand it to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. No matter what happens, he brings a thoroughly business mindset to the job of governing Italy. Sex scandals? He eats them for breakfast. Allegations of impropriety? It's all...

Today I'm just going to direct you to two stories. The first is from paidcontent.org, dated July 20th, 2009. It says in part:

Working with McKinsey, Townsend and a Conde Nast team will "develop new perspectives on optimizing our approach to business, growing revenues, and enhancing our brand...

I'm having kind of a tough day today, so I particularly appreciated the following breaking story, provided by my local paper, The New York Daily News, to wit:

In "Frozen," Larry Johnson, a former executive at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz., writes that Williams' head, which had...