Beyond the Rhetoric

When I started the What’s Up Wednesdays series here on Beyond the Rhetoric, the concept of a “speedlink” on a blog was slowly increasing in popularity. That popularity has since waned, but I still feel there is value in linking out to other blogs around the web. It’s my small way of giving back to [...]

“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]

It can be pretty strange the way that some companies choose to make money. They start out with a core product or service and maybe they do very well with it, but then they look at how they can grow. They start to think about business expansion and they can end up in circles where [...]

There are many words in the English language and new words are being created all the time. That’s why I find it a little curious that it seems like, more and more, the marketing people are starting to run out of words to use for their products. Surely, you can find a number of examples [...]

As I gazed into the crystal ball nearly 12 full months ago, I made ten predictions for 2010. Now that we are in the final week of the calendar year, I thought it would be appropriate to take a look back and see how I did. 1. Swine Flu Squeals: I said that H1N1 got [...]