A couple clues on where not put your investment dollars – even if you get the chance.

I thought newsroom colleague Michael Silence had a good post Friday on how hard it is to kick the smoking habit even after a heart bypass operation. It seemed to strike chord with some. Several commenters had their own tales...

We’ve been doing some work with Olive Software so found this item on John Battelle’s Searchblog intriguing:

Caught up with David Carlson while he was in Knoxville. That was good. Dave is national president of the Society of Professional Journalists and was in town for the local chapter’s annual Golden Press Card Awards on Friday night. At...

There are some albums that just sound like summer. You can just feel the sunny hot summer afternoons or warm summer nights hanging outside with lightin’ bugs and crickets. The January 2006 release of the Subdudes’ “Behind the Leeve” is...

In “But the focus group loved it” marketing maven Seth Godin started a nice conversation on focus groups. He says the purpose of a focus group is to help you focus.

Reading about Louis Rekeyser’s death last week and listening to a special hosted by CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo reminded me of an interview I did years ago with Rukeyser’s remarkable father, Merryle S. Rukeyser (Jan. 3, 1897 – Dec. 21, 1988)....

Yeah, I’m an Alison Stewart fan. I’m glad to see she’s got her own afternoon show on MSNNBC, “The Most,” which debuted May. 1. I’m Tivoing it for awhile to see if it lives up to the hype. It sounds...

This is just wacky enough to be a hit, but it just sounds too nerdy and since somebody at HP thought it was really cutting edge neato, I’m thinking: Another good idea gone bad. It’s called “Meet and Delete” and...

Taylor Larimore, 81, a former official at the Small Business Administration, one of the co-founders of the Vanguard Diehardforum on Morningstar, and one of the three authors of “The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing” on the the Boglehead philosphy ….