Who Needs a SmartPhone? RIM CEO Makes Blackberry a DumbPhone

You know how you can tell you’re in trouble? When business change is happening all around you, even TO you, and your response is to pretend it doesn’t matter.

Free Speech, Amazon, Child Pornography, and Business Change

This week, someone noticed a how-to-be-a-pedophile book for sale on Amazon.com. It had been there for a while, and not very many copies were selling. Then, the Internet happened.

Low-Hanging Fruit and Social Media

If you’ve ever been in an orchard, seen a yummy-looking apple just above your head, picked it, and taken a bite, you may have experienced the problem with doing things the easy way. Low-hanging fruit may be easy to lay your hands on, but that doesn’t make it the best…

Don’t Link Anything? Don’t Use The Internet. (Dvorak)

Here’s a link. Click it quick, because in about a month it might not be there any more.

And John Dvorak is cranky about it.

Due Process? Not How US Congress Sees the Internet

How’d you like to live in a country where you had no right to due process under the law? You know: a place where some government official decides you’re naughty and punishes you on the spot, with no chance to defend yourself.

Free Wi-Fi (Almost) Everywhere? FON is The Real Deal

I have Internet connectivity everywhere I go. I use my Smartphone as a modem to get my Netbook on-line. No comment as to whether this is allowed by my wireless phone provider; there are legitimate ways to do it, and others that are ……

Arrogance, Intelligence, and Jason Calacanis

The biggest business change of all is when you take on a partner. And hard as that is when the partner brings skills to the table, it can be even harder when they bring money.

The Beatles First-Ever US Concert

Seriously . . . The Whole Thing. Thank you Apple, (and Apple).

The sound is awful, the video grainy, and there are no production values at all, but . . . wow. Just Watch The Boys. THESE Beatles were having a whole lot of fun.

Should College Athletes Be Paid? Are They?

As a medium-height, average-sized, not-quite-athletic guy, nobody ever paid me to play sports. This, along with not being a rock star, are two of the great disappointments of my life.

Jews Are Funny. And THAT’S Business Change (AJWS)

Know who needs more attention? Jews.

American Jewish World Service has found a very funny way to get attention, and it includes big business change — or at least hopes that how things turn out. They’ve partnered with…