"The key here really is rapid transparency. If Apple had good listening posts in place, they could have quickly slapped up a video on Apple.com from Steve saying, "Um, no, I'm fine, guys."" - Christopher Penn
"Well, it's just that most student loan press releases are full of fluff, random quotes supposedly from a CEO but are ghost written, useless jargon like industry-leading, etc.
This press release, honestly, could be one sentence long. Which begs the question - if I can convey all the facts and the story in one sentence, should it be any longer?" - Christopher Penn
"Contact your elected representatives with every tool you have at your disposal and urge them not to give the keys to America to Paulson and Bernanke." - Christopher Penn
"It's blank in the sense that it's not a fixed $700B. It's a debt ceiling, so he can buy as much as he wants as long as some of it gets sold off to stay under the $700B ceiling." - Christopher Penn
"@Susan: audio and video have that capacity to a degree, but enabled by other mechanisms, like comments. It gets grey and fuzzy to be sure!" - Christopher Penn
"It's not, no more so than the postal service is a form of media. Direct mail is a form of communication, but not media to me - after all, whether postal or digital, there's an awful lot of mail I get that I do *not* want others reading!" - Christopher Penn
"That's actually the way it used to be done in the earliest elections. The president was whoever won, and the vice president was the runner up.
Compromise and cooperation were far more valued back then." - Christopher Penn
I study martial arts myself and like how you're able to weave it into your posts. In the best situations, it becomes such an integral part of who you are and yet when trying to explain it to "outsiders". It's tough to get beyond - "so, can you break a board?" - Jennifer Breazeale
"I think that depends more on the quality of the conference. If there's one area where there's some crossover, it's that each class of conference, unconference and pro, is forcing the other to innovate, and that's good for both." - Christopher Penn
