Banana Republic

I recently had an issue with an experience with Banana Republic (a division of the Gap). While they were nice enough to send me a gift card for my inconvenience, I was surprised that the letter sent with it wasn’t personalized describing the measures they would be taking to prevent it from occurring with another [...]

Education is Becoming Prepared - Is Your Hiring Process?

From Page 52 of Time, in an article about education, December 18th, 2006: “Jobs in the new economy-the ones that won’t get outsourced or automated-”put an enormous premium on creative and innovative skills, seeing patterns where other people see only chaos,” says Marc Tucker , an author of the skills-commission report and president of the [...]

Technology Evangelist Launches Mobile Complaint Site

Ed Kohler wants you to know that they now have a mobile complaint site.

CES update

Robert Scoble held a blogger lunch with Bill Gates at the Consumer Electronics Show, the video can be viewed below and takes 42 minutes to view - I tried to embed it but that link text from Podtech doesn’t seem to be working.

Ed Kohler from Technology Evangelist wants to hear your questions about CES.

Helpful Wordpress Tip + 7 Wishlist Items + 2.0.6 Released + Feedburner Related Bug

Wordpress 2.0.6 released! As many of you are aware, I recently struggled with a Wordpress problem that prevented me from sending outbound trackbacks. Due to my good friend Stephan Spencer’s help, I was able to finally locate a problem which dozens of other people had tried to locate but could not.
What was this problem? [...]

Podtech A Few Things That Need Adjustment

I listened to some great Podtech shows this morning by Jennifer Jones and Kamla Bhatt. There is no email contact information for either person on the site at this time. Especially considering Jennifer Jones runs one of the verticals on the top of the site this is surprising as I’d like to reach out to [...]

TiE Global Chairman Apurv Bagri Interviewed on Podtech

The Indus Entrepreneurs, better known by its acronym TiE, hold great events here in Chicago on a regular basis.
I’ve not yet integrated with it’s global community however as (to the best of my knowledge) the organization does not have a global message board. I would love to interact with the people of TiE internationally [...]

How to Forge a New American Mandate Via Social Media Political Revolution

Robert Scoble’s political journey with John Edwards recently bought back memories of when I once worked on a Presidential primary campaign in 1992. It’s hard and one of the most tiring things you could ever volunteer to be a part of! Regardless of your political beliefs (I’m generally a politically interested independent issues driven voter), [...]

Mobile Site Indexing Possibilities

William Slawski recently analyzed a Google patent application and discusses the implications for mobile site indexing.
Definitely worth checking out.

Askimet Comment Issues

On Monday, January 1, 2007, there was some kind of problem that classified any comment I made on a Wordpress blog (Techcrunch, Scoble, my own blog - David Dalka - Chicago GSB, etc) as spam. Yikes!
The problem seems to be fixed as of this morning but it’s disturbing to me as it’s obviously happened to [...]

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