I always wondered why Seth Godin did not accept comments on his blog. But, I finally turned off comments on my own blog (not because I'm popular like Seth). Sure, every once in a while there is a gem that makes you smile. But, really folks, those gems are just floating in a sea of garbage. That is today's Internet for you.
I've talked a lot about the growth of competition. What I left out, is that a lot of your competition is trash. Search engine algorithms can't decipher quality and so we're stuck with much worse than the common denominator for a while (forever?).
I want to get into video but I'm not ready to appear in person yet. Fortunately, my cats are. So move over James Cameron, here's my Avatar. I have to apologize in advance for the lack of violence and mating. Still, I expect millions of views.
'Next' is a fun science fiction movie about a guy who can see just two minutes into the future. But it reminded me of the importance of looking five years into the future. Because seeing the future, changes it. As Abraham Lincoln said "The best way to predict your future is to create it."
A big thanks to the Google team 
An HR blogger said something interesting in a 
If you could afford a domain name for your job board that contained a single dictionary word, your category keyword or some related keyword, would you do it? These folks did:
I want to be useful, truly useful -- but it took a crisis or two for me to figure that out. Two years ago I hit rock bottom. My health had been in decline for a number of years when I hit a crisis. I needed to be cared for and was virtually useless to my family and company. Often, it was all I could do to get from one hour to the next. 
