Valued or De-Valued

Lynne Johnson has a great post in the Fast Company Magazine FC Now Blog.

I agree with Lynne, I'm not so sure removing the fee to view Wall Street Journal Online content is a good thing. Rupert Murdoch thinks opening the site to everybody free of charge is a way to get more eyes onto his online ads.

I think no matter what he does with the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch is going to have to work very hard to mess it up.

It's Good to be the King?

Wow, can this get any creepier? (Not Mel, the link below...I wonder if it is still good to be the king?)

https://shop.bk.com/detail.aspx?ID=21

Packard Bell still exists? Really?

First I read this morning that computer maker Acer is buying Gateway . Yawn. Once upon a time I owned a Gateway computer. In 1998 Gateway didn't make a bad product. It took me six years to kill the computer, but that's beside the point.

Then I read that Acer or Lenovo may buy Packard Bell. Packard Bell? The most poorly made personal computers known to man? Packard Bell? Really? Wow, I thought the company had gone belly up long ago.

If you can believe Michael Scott's favorite online resource, Wikipedia: The Packard Bell name was withdrawn in the U.S. and has been used primarily in Europe.

So what's the moral of the story? I'm still trying to figure it out. I'm just shocked that someone would try to resurrect a brand name that to some folks, is synonomus for "bad product."