Just a quick note to let you know that I’ve made a couple of modifications to the WesterBlog. The biggest is that I have enabled commenting (you have Larry Miller and his persistent lobbying to thank for that). Just remember …

Here is a great article on buzzwords from Yahoo! Finance. (Thanks to Mike for the referral.) It’s a great read if you can find time in your day between working on your deliverables and your decentralization and unsiloing efforts and …

Want a short cut to titling/writing a book? Come up with a color and a subject of interest and you’re halfway there (provided it’s a specialty you know something about). Let’s play … Color – Green; Subject – Landscaping = …

By even pointing this out, I realize that I’m being part of the problem but I like this story in a guilty pleasure kind of way. You see the bank is foreclosing on Screech from “Saved by the Bell”‘s house. …

Check out this great overview of the new web, or the live web as it’s being called, in the current edition of Newsweek. It covers the rise of sites like MySpace and Flickr and summarizes that these successes and many …

Anyone watching Saturday Night Live on March 4 caught Natalie Portman’s hilarious rap video (part of SNL’s new digital short series — lately one of the highlights of the show) in which she sends up her good girl image. 

First and foremost, let me take a moment to wish everyone a happy 2006. Secondly, I want to apologize for the absence of new content from the WesterBlog during the last month of 2005. Usual excuses … work, holidays, etc. …

If you haven’t checked out Firefox, the simple, quick-loading, secure browser that’s gaining traction among consumers eager for an alternative to Microsoft IE, you’re missing out. But technical wonderment aside, what should also be taken note of are the viral …

In honor of the holiday, I thought I’d share something scary — 5 marketing messages that my five-year old spontaneously regurgitated throughout the past week. McDonald’s Proudly Sponsors … The punch line is we try to get the kids to …

First and foremost, let me clarify that I am in no way affiliated with Apple Computer. Their marketing is just a constant marvel to me and worth sharing. The image above was the main graphic on the gateway to Apple’s …