Hammock Publishing needed a new logo.
Actually, we’ve never had a logo, merely a type treatment — and an unfortunate swirl phase we went through. I especially liked the one we chose as it includes some fun with type: The two trunks of the “H” are comprised of a forward slash “/” a backward slash “\” and the bar of the “H” is a closing parenthesis turned upwards: “)”. We’ll be rolling it out slowly — up soon: a new website that “makes use of Web 2.0” — but I thought I’d preview it here.
(And no. Despite it being the first magazine to which I had my very own subscription, the logo is not an homage to the logo on the right.)
From the New York Times comes a story that the 2,200 year-old “Antikythera Mechanism,” sometimes called the world’s first computer, “has now been examined with the latest in high-resolution imaging systems and three-dimensional X-ray tomography.”
What did the scientists discover that surprised them? That it ran on the Windows OS.
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist will not be running for President in 2008.
Frist has a blog. He announced it there.
No one is asking me, but as an observer, I see a great opportunity here. As a Nashvillian and somewhat close observer of Bill Frist’s entire career, not just his time in the Senate, I think he is perfectly suited to take a leadership role in solving some of the world’s great medical challenges — be they in the U.S. (access to affordable care and coverage) or globally (he regularly travels to Africa on medical mission trips). Frist is brilliant surgeon — graduate of Princeton, Harvard Medical School, residencies at Mass General and Stanford and founder of the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. Despite spending only 12 years in the Senate, he was Senate Majority Leader for four of those years.
From an extremely wealthy and philanthropic family, Frist needs no corporate-board gigs, speaking or consulting fees to fund his lifestyle. He needs no powerful ego title. Heck, he even has access to private jets.
In other words, Frist has the ability to play one of those roles ex-Presidents play — when they are no longer a political threat to anyone. It’s the greatest power of all: The power of being able to tackle global problems without having every decision and action judged in terms of their impact on your future political asperations.
From my vantage point as a by-standing observer, I think Bill Frist has a unique power and portfolio to solve some big problems. I hope that he can somehow use the timing of all of this to join up with another force that also has a unique power and portfolio and wants to solve the same big problems: Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett. Massive money, power, brains, unlimited access to the world’s leaders — all without the baggage of working inside the constraints of politics or governmental red-tape. All those folks should be working together somehow to fulfill their shared visions of curing diseases and healing the sick.
(first saw via: NashvillePost.com)
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Looking back, I’ve had the great opportunity to speak at several conferences, classes and meetings this year and am looking forward to my two last official “gigs” next week. (Although I have some business travel planned before year’s end.)
On Tuesday, December 5, I join Scott Karp and Jason Brightman (who designed, among other things, the XML Magazine website that is running on Wordpress) in Chicago for a day-long Folio: seminar called “E-Publishing Strategies.” This is the fifth-stop on a national “road show” of the seminar. I was in D.C. and Atlanta. Scott’s done all of them, however. Of course, he’s the lead singer.
On Wednesday, December 6, I’m speaking on the topic of “Social Media in the Marketing Mix” at the Nashville chapter of the American Marketing Association. As it’s an after-lunch presentation at a restaurant known for piling on the food, I’ll do all I can to keep folks awake.
According to the Official Google Blog, Google is pulling the plug on Google Answers. It will stop accepting questions later this week and stop accepting new answers by year’s end. The archive of questions and answers will remain.
Why did Google Answers fail too catch on? Why did only 800 people ever answer questions on the service? I could write a few thousand words here but one will suffice: Wikipedia.
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