Comments (0) In 2009, I wrote a blog post explaining “Why I Don’t Sign NDAs,” and reported that in 30 years of work as a reporter, attorney, and internet marketing consultant, I’ve signed exactly two Non-Disclosure Agreements, one of which was part of an employment contract.
Last week, I signed my third NDA.
Online product reviews are a critical part of my buying process. But how useful, and how legitimate, are the product reviews we see on merchants’ web sites?
I just had a fascinating conversation with Tara Flanagan, who is a candidate for Superior Court Judge in Alameda County. After I informed her that her campaign signs were posted illegally on public property, she demurred and dissembled.
Count me among the Democrats in U.S. Representative Pete Stark’s district who believe he should retire, and that if he doesn’t, we should vote him out of office to avoid further embarrassment. Unfortunately, his current challengers don’t appear very attractive.
The breadth and depth of the advice in Geno Prussakov’s book, Affiliate Program Management: An Hour a Day, is exceptional.
I just spent a half-hour hour tracking down an old friend whose 2005 email address (@aol.com) no longer works, and I realized that I should create a single “email forwarding” web page that people who are searching for me might find.
Check your credit card statements for any improper charges by Amazon!
I just found a series of unexpected small transactions from Amazon on my credit card.
Once again, my maze of cables has reached “critical mass,” increasing my daily stress. I recently bought several new devices, including an Android tablet, a Bluetooth headset, and a new cell phone. Each has its own charging cable, and all the new cables and most of the old ones are black. And three of the devices use the same tiny USB connector, but I’m not 100% certain that it’s OK to use them interchangably.
So I just spent 20 minutes printing out and affixing 16 tiny labels to 8 cables (one on each end of each cable) to identify which cables go with which devices. (The picture at right is not mine; it’s just an example.)
Please help me! I’ve been using several resources to identify free Kindle eBooks, but I’m not very satisfied with them. If you’ve searched for free eBooks, what resources have you used? What features or functions have your found most helpful, and what features are functions would make a resource more useful or helpful for you? Read more »
A quick observation about Amazon’s book pricing: While the Kindle price for a book is generally less than the “new book” price from Amazon itself when a book is first released, the price never seems to go down. Thus, for most books, the Kindle price never seems very attractive:
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