Before you get in the car, you need a driver and a map.. Matt Mower comments on my altruism as a cultivated resource comments: ... I listened to a Geoffrey Moore webcast recently... [brentashley]

» Brent makes a good point.  Much of the difficulty with business blogging is not technical in nature: 

It's a problem of an entrenched culture of insecurity that results in hoarding of knowledge and attempts to steer personal and corporate destinies by controlling knowledge flow.

And he goes on to say:

Our problem is that we're trying to sell sets of fancy wheels to people who don't know how or why to drive, let alone have a map of where they're going. They get in, crash into the first obstacle they find, get out and slam the door, muttering about how this damn car can't drive straight.

However I think this is a best case scenario right now.  It seems to me that only organisations with a Phil at the helm that even go for the test drive.

Bees vs Landmines. Researchers in Montana say they have been training honeybees to sniff out landmines. [ ... ] For two years the bees have been finding simulated landmines that smell like the real thing. So far the bees have a near-perfect track record, says researcher Colin Henderson. The United Nations estimates there are about 110 million unexploded landmines around the world, and each year some 26,000 people are killed or maimed by the hidden bombs. [Smart Mobs]

» Wow, clever bees.  I wonder what else they can sniff out...

When Jeb Bush speaks, people cringe. The governor's lesbian joke about the women arrested in the Rilya Wilson case is the latest example of his mean sense of humor -- when he thinks the media isn't listening. [Salon.com]

» Being an asshole runs strong in his family.