Digital rhetoric and Socrates – what in the world? It’s the Attention Age, gang, and the challenge to be heard is formidable at best. To be heard means you’ve got to persuade people to listen. And to persuade people to listen means you’ve got to do what Socrates did best: employ the skills of rhetoric. [...]
For those of us who have left English 101 behind a long time ago, it may come as a surprise to learn that poor writing is one of the biggest problems in business today. That’s right, poor writing. Studies and surveys have shown that poor writing contributes to low productivity, inferior product quality, and poor [...]
Can it be true? Technology is nothing new? I’m reading a fascinatng book, From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Utopianism by Fred Turner An excellent description from a group at Stanford University: “In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American imagination. Bleak tools of the cold war, [...]
I can’t seem to let go of the story about the plane that crashed into that house in Clarence, NY a week ago last night. I was just watching a video of an interview with the co-pilot, Rebecca Shaw’s, family. She was just 25, and a beautiful young woman. I’ve also listened to the cockpit [...]
This is HARD!! I’ve blogged for business for three years now, but this is scary! I typically whip off a business blog in a few minutes, while I’ve been at this for two days now! YIKES. I think I’ll stop now while I’m ahead(?) To be continued …
