Stuart Elliott of The New York Times and I met at the ANA CASIE Award event in Jacksonville in 1996 for my team’s work on IBM’s Kasparov vs. Deep Blue and we reconvened for a short chat in this podcast call. Stuart talks about the lines blurring between marketers becoming media companies and ad agencies [...]

I see this as another step in a Microsoft play in stepping into a place where there this more web traffic.  Where they and Google excel is in segmenting this traffic and then monetizing the traffic. This just in, Microsoft has beat out Google and Yahoo, securing a deal with Facebook wherein Microsoft will take [...]

In this article posted on AOL October 13th 2007 it appears to me that something is a bit unusual.   There is a $10,000,000 offer to create and build a car that generates 100 MPH.  According to the article there are up to 36 interested parties who want to compete, however none of them are the [...]

With Al Gore’s army of green people spreading the word over the planet there is a movement going on about climate change.  In the October 2007 National Geographic they point out that the Chinese are following in our footsteps and are building 1 coal fired power plant PER WEEK in China.  Eric Woodroof’s courses and training [...]