Happy Fourth of July! This was taken last year on the Fourth at Badin Lake, NC. More here.

They’re using our own satellites against us. And the clock is ticking. -- David Levinson

Consumer Products Safety Commission recalls fireworks product that “can produce a loud bang and unexpectedly scatter debris, posing an injury hazard to the user and bystanders.” I guess that’s a problem?

Rightsizing sounds better to corp execs than “panicking,” says Ken Doctor, writing about the announcement this week of deep cuts at the L.A. Times. He says a more descriptive term would be “frightsizing.” He didn’t coin the term, but he...

Charlene Li, who announced today she’s leaving Forrester Resarch, says: I was once asked what was the best career advice I ever received – and it was to plan for job obsolescence every 18 months, because research showed that people...

 This is pretty cute. (Stay with it until after the end.)

Should I make something of this fun with Google Analytics? In the latter half of June, long-time leader “oral sex” was displaced as the top search engine query that brought visitors to this blog in a rolling 30-day period. It...

Coming back from a short vacation and not checking company email for four days, brought with it an inbox with over 675 new messages. Now, many of them were “status” messages; new video available from AP, someone flagged a comment...

I’m a believer in sticking with fundamentals and keep an eye on your goals. Flavor of the day management just leads to zigzag results with up not an option. So I was particularly pleased to read what Scott Berkun, author...