In today’s increasingly communicative world, businesses face a dilemma. They have to find ways to be more engaging and communicate more directly to their customers and the public, while retaining close control of sensitive information.

The most convenient way for both business users and their customers to share information has been through blogs. Over the last three years blogs have sprung up everywhere. It’s hard to find a major corporation that doesn’t have a host of blogs on different subjects all aimed at getting more relevant content out to the marketplace faster and more effectively.

Um… Isn’t it common knowledge that blogs make communication for companies easier? What is this? 2002? The next thing you know they will tell me I am overweight and I need a diet pill to help me lose weight.

I was pretty busy around here the past few days with the whole Best Buy incident.

Feel free to read more at my personal blog,

It’s Time For An Apology

Holding Those Accountable

An Optimistic Outlook

I’ll return to regular tech news blogging, soon.

A few weeks ago we had some major power issues. It turned out to be a problem in the line more than 7 miles from our home, but each night the power would fluctuate, the lights would dim, and the battery backup units would bark real loud.

The end result? The problem has been fixed, but I still have to replace 2 battery backups that the power company has informed me they are not responsible for, since it was lightning that hit the regulator. Wonderful.

A blogger calling himself “Fake Steve Jobs,” whose parody of the Apple Inc. chief executive amused and enthralled Silicon Valley, revealed himself on Sunday as an editor of Forbes business magazine.

Dan Lyons, a senior editor at Forbes, admitted to writing as Fake Steve after a New York Times reporter found resemblances between the blog and Lyons’ published work and asked him whether he was behind the long-running satire.

Lyons told the Times he had started the fake blog last year to poke fun at the lack of candidness he saw in the growing number of CEO blogs that were attracting media attention.

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“I was hoping to stay anonymous for a while longer but on the other hand I knew I couldn’t stay anonymous forever. It had to happen at some point,” Lyons said.

“I hope that it doesn’t ruin the fun of the blog that people know who’s behind it.

Wow. Well it does kind of ruin it. Now when I read the site, I’m going to think of Dan Lyons, not Fake Steve Jobs. How sad. Oh wait, I know…

I’ll just visit as Fake Dan Lyons, and everything should be just fine.

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