I have a confession. I’m having a great time dipping into Tom Peters’ new book, The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence. Neat concept. A book built, more or less, out of Tom’s blog posts (edited and re-organized). But the EXCITABLE punctuation (which includes randomly bolded words, HEADLINES in the middle of paragraphs and EXCLAMATION POINTS galore!!) is DIS-CON-CERT-ING. It makes me feel, well, jumpy. Like I can’t settle down and

Arianna Huffington flogs her new book, The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, on The Daily Show. Best line: she tells Jon that "50,000 new blogs are started everyday." He interrupts, "that sounds like a sexually transmitted disease." No really… "Blogging is not about perfectionism. Blogging is about intimacy, immediacy, transparency and sharing your thoughts," she elaborates.

Update: there are now 477 773 comments from readers on Cuban's post, many saying "I support you" - others quite critical.

Kudos to Mark Cuban, CEO of the Dallas Mavericks, for posting the following on his blog today. Proves the point that you can almost always say something on a CEO or corporate blog -- even if it's to say that you can't say much. In this case, by posting his attorney's letter, Cuban is being open about the SEC's charges of

It will be interesting to see how many CEO bloggers (and corporate blogs) step up to the plate and talk about lay-offs and downsizing. Here's an Oct. 15, 2008 post by Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk which does just that, although in a bit of corporate-speak: "There will also be some headcount reduction due to consolidation of operations." 

The NYTimes makes the point yesterday that this is particularly effective when it is done on the offensive: In

Reading some of the better known Big Brand blogs you'd never know the nation's economic ship is listing sharply and BTW it's going to affect all of us, globally. Tom Friedman reminds us in the New York Times that this is an unprecedented scary moment (Sept. 30, 2008). He ranks it with the Cuban Missile Crisis, JFK's assassination and 9/11. OK, so things move slowly in corporate America. I guess we shouldn't be surprised that corporate blogs are

Just ran across this. Forrester CEO George Colony started a blog in late January 2008. In April he spoke at the Forrester Marketing Forum on his first two months of blogging. "It only takes an hour a week," he said but he finds himself thinking about writing the blog all week. "So it's taking some of my mindshare." So true. It's one of the upsides as well as the downsides of maintaining a blog. You have to think. That's hard. He also makes the