Skype is lovely, but the administrative features of my account get on my last nerve-ending. With the launch of calling from Gmail today, maybe there’s a simpler alternative. For a simple explanation, check out Wiki-How. Call me!

Five months ago, Washington was hit by snowmaggedon, shutting down the city for a week. Now it’s a 3.6 earthquake at 5 a.m. What next? Locusts?

Today Seth Godin dings restaurant owners opposing the proposed NYC cleanliness scorecard, asserting that the window sign impinges on their right of free speech. Godin questions why these businesses would assert their rights rather than embrace their responsibilities. To illustrate…

A “minimalist manifesto,” Rework reveals the operating principles of 37Signals, the wildly successful perpetrators of Basecamp, Campfire, and other truly useful distributed work tools for the Fortune 5,000,000. You can download an excerpt at 37signals.com/rework/ that include some of my…

Twenty years ago, I was working for the American Institute of Architects and was about to be laid off, the first wave of lay offs that would ultimately cut staff numbers in half. That era’s creative destruction of capital markets,…

What does the Journal of Association Leadership need to be? That was the question of yesterday’s retreat for a dozen editorial advisory board members and knowledge staff. Heroically facilitated by Dan Martinage, we finally sorted out the issues that we…

When asked about her writing process for a video interview, a nine-year old girl carefully considers her answer and finally says: “I like to write with a red pen.” Ah, there’s nothing like a great pen to inspire a writer….