Incredible audacity and success. Marketing guru Seth Godin says, You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. There are a lot of examples that come to mind, but Hugh McLeod is an outstanding example of someone who knows the marketing game so well that he can fearlessly break the rules when it suits his purpose. [...]

Taking responsibility. The problem with accepting responsibility, though, is that you can be too glib about it. A lot of responsibility taking in today's newspaper for example, “It was not Harry's fault,” Cheney said Wednesday on Fox News. “You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend.” “I [...]

The Reason. The reason they teach biology before they teach chemistry in high school is that biology was invented first. Even though you need chemistry to do biology, but not vice versa. The reason that you have a water bubbler in your office is that it used to be difficult to filter water effectively. The [...]

Senate Chairman Splits With Bush on Spy Program. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas wants the domestic spying program brought under the authority of a special intelligence court. By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG. [NYT > Home Page]

37signals launch: The Campfire is lit. We launched Campfire today: Group chat for businesses in the browser. It's by far the most advanced Ajax application we've done, but also the most resource intensive. We're currently polling every three seconds for every user active in a chat and while we'll soon be able to regulate that [...]

How to fix LUA bugs. Aaron has started a series on how to fix LUA bugs. If you read his article on “What is a “LUA Bug”? (And what isn't a LUA bug?)” and want to learn how to fix your code, this is a good place to start.  [Dana Epp's ramblings at the Sanctuary]

Selling yourself is a life-time job. You have a Computer Science degree. Now what? I was doing my weekly shopping in Home Depot and I was helped by Carl, who is a recent graduate of Radford University's College of Information Science and Technology. He had a degree in Computer Science, but had been unable to [...]

Where there's passion, there are stories. Anyone who is passionate about golf knows the backstory about Tiger Woods. Those passionate about film can tell a story or two about Fellini, Eisenstein, and Kubric. Those passionate about open source know the story of Linus, Stallman … [Creating Passionate Users]

Guy's 8 community-building rules.. As always, Guy Kawasaki is saying things that garage startups micro-ISVs should read, print, reread and divide into Next Actions. This time, it's how to build a community around your micro-ISV's product. This is the magic you need to be successful. [MyMicroISV]

Bush: The Biggest Spender. “Federal spending has grown twice as fast under President Bush as under President Clinton,” notes Brian Riedl, an economist at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative advocacy group in Washington, says The Christian Science Monitor. And the President's 2007 deficit appears on track to be a new record setter after all the [...]