Archive for May, 2007
Anderson Cooper interviews Walter Cronkite
Saturday, May 26th, 2007This post has been languishing in the drafts section for some time now, so I’m glad to get this out to you all! It’s a little off topic but still very interesting to me, so oh well.
On Febuary 26, 2007, I had the fortune to be at the Universal Ampitheatre for a special interview [...]
High Customer Satisfaction = High Stock Price?
Saturday, May 19th, 2007One of my favorite consumer blogs is Consumerist.com, which has tons of interesting stuff to read every day. Yesterday they strayed from the norm a little bit and posted a piece about the stock market, entitled “How To Beat The Stock Market: Buy Companies With High Customer Satisfaction Scores”. The post has received 16,000 page [...]
The Mystery of the Bees
Sunday, May 13th, 2007Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Small, buzzing bees. They bothered you at your picnics when you were a kid. You never really took much notice of them, until one day, they started to disappear. Sounds like science fiction, right? Well believe it or not, bees all over the country have been disappearing at an alarming rate over the past 6 [...]
Weekend Financial Stories of Interest
Sunday, May 6th, 2007Here are some interesting stories from the world of finance over the weekend, just in case you can’t find something to read this Sunday afternoon:
Businesses Try to Make Money and Save the World, in the NY Times, is an article by Stephanie Strom all about a new type of investment firm: one owned by a [...]
Cell Phones in Cars
Friday, May 4th, 2007So I was driving home from work in my car, and while paused at a very long light, started to look at the drivers whizzing by me. What did 7 of out every 10 drivers all have in common? (No, I didn’t perform a scientific study - it’s just an estimate!) They were all talking [...]