How Information Travels

Last week Guy Kawasaki wrote the post, “How to Know What Text and Images People Copy from Your Site” on Tynt for the OPEN Forum blog.

He linked to it on from his Twitter account. May have seen it there or on Friendfeed. Not sure which one it was. Tynt is a tool that allows a website owner to know what text has been copied from their website [or blog].

While reading some RSS posts from the Carpe Diem blog one engaged my interest. It was “Ripped Off and Plagiarized in the Indian Press!!” which essentially covered how some people use others content as their own. Wrote an email to Mark Perry about the tool that Guy wrote about last week. Also included the link the Tynt post by Guy.

In short order Mark sent a reply thanking me for the info and that he would check it out. Not too long after that Mark wrote “Plagiarism Update.”

Takeaway: Information NOW travels much faster than before. Knowledge is becoming more perfect.

BUSINESS BLOGS: THINKING AND ANALYSIS

Management, Marketing and Leadership

Currently there are 188 feeds in Google Reader. The ones listed below are very good to excellent resources. 

Check them out for yourself. They may challenge your thinking. If they do, you will have to sharpen your analysis; in the process your position will either change or become better defended as you find better information.

Carpe Diem

The Big Picture

The Tom Peters Weblog

Blog Maverick

Seth Godin

Guy Kawasaki

...

What business blogs do you read, share and use as a resource?

Re: "The High Cost of Living vs. The Cost of Living High"

Below are a few of my thoughts regarding this post.

VIA Carpe Diem [full post is linked in Title above]

Based on a suggestion yesterday from a student in my MBA class (MGT 551 Business Economics), the graph above shows the declining share of disposable personal income (data) spent on food (data), clothing (data), and shelter (housing and household operation) since 1929. From a high of almost 59% in 1933, the percent of disposable income spent on food, clothing and shelter today has continually fallen, and today (2007) is only 33%.

The problem I have with these types of stats is...

• People have taken the savings and put them into other spending categories...
• Such as Cable TV... Internet... Mobile phones... 401k...
• People have less money left over at the end of the month...
• Funds are all allocated...
• There is not much fat to cut in personal budgets...

You may not agree, that is OK.

Takeaway:
When Food, Fuel and Shelter costs rise rapidly there is no way for the average family to easily adjust to the new realities.