Author: Scott Westerman
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15 Feet of Fame
Andy Warhol says that we all get our 15 minutes of fame. You never know when or where it will come. Being a good doggie mom, Colleen and Tanna exercise regularly with a couple of circles around our neighborhood. That’s what was happening when the Google Street Level camera car came by. If you search…
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Five years later..
I’ve had the good fortune to give a number of talks about social media lately. Being a beta geek since the days when I got my Internet through a dial-up SLIP connection at Pipeline (coupled with my current gig at Comcast) seems to attract attention. A common question is “When did you start blogging?” For…
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Jerry Hartweg
From the time I first saw Buddy Rich behind a trap set, I wanted to be a drummer. I paid my dues with the required piano lessons, God’s way of weeding out the un-worthy, and even did a year on the trumpet when my Eberwhite band director told me there could only be two drummers…
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Remembering Paul Harvey
In the days before automation, a rite of passage for many a young disk jockey was running the local control board for Paul Harvey News and Comment. My own experience came in 1971 at Ann Arbor’s WPAG. As the agricultural station for southeastern Michigan and northern Ohio, our noon-time Farm and Home Hour was punctuated…
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Are you “Between Opportunities”? Make the most of it!
The big, scary question that confronts anybody who’s lost a job is: What do I do now?If you’ve been paying any attention to the economic news, you’ve probably already developed a Plan-B. How do I live more frugally? How big is my rainy day fund? What’s my back-up plan for revenue generation while I figure…
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If you will it, it is no dream
One of my favorite exchanges in The Big Lebowski is where Walter comments on Donnie’s strike with the statement “If you will it, it is no dream.” The interaction spirals out of control from there but Theodor Herzl’s quotation is never far from my mind whenever I’m talking with friends about what could be.And so…
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It’s an On-Demand World
We’re in Jacksonville, Florida with the kids for the holidays. I was joking with a fellow Comcaster that all I really need for happiness is my laptop, Comcast High Speed Internet and Comcast Video On Demand. That’s sure the case this week.Work intrudes, even on vacation for those of us who love both technology and…
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Moonrise over the Sandias
5PM, December 11, 2008 – Eastbound on 550, 39 miles West of Albuquerque. The thin ribbon winds its way Southeast from Farmington. Its a day when I’ve spent more time on the road than in the meetings that took me to that far corner of New Mexico.We avoid driving at night here. The skies are…
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Remembering Cyrlena Aldrich
As some of you know, we recently learned that my sweet mom had liver cancer, a metastasis of the breast cancer she beat several years ago. Her time to battle was a short one, only about 2 months. She passed away around 1am on November 22 in Houghton Lake, MI in the same nursing home…