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The secret of the Yankees future success.
Oct 13th
What is the secret of the Yankees future success?
Do the Yankees want to begin each season competing for a World Series championship and declaring the season a bust if they don’t reach it? Or do the Yankees want to field competitive teams that consistently make the playoffs and sell out the new stadium? via New York Times
Hmmm.
The bigger question is what do you do when fans, politicians, entertainers and Yankee players all want Joe Torre to stay and not get fired after Steinbrenner hinted that would likely happen. I mean Joe Torre’s name is mentioned in google news right now almost as much as the politicians who are running for president.
Dave Fox talks about his mortgage scandal
Oct 12th
If you haven’t heard already, KUTV sports anchor Dave Fox has been in trouble recently with the law for communications fraud. From what I understand, he bought an investment property, said he was going to live in it and didn’t. The problem is, some home loans have stipulations that require you to declare that residence as a primary residence, and that’s not what happened (from what I understand).
He plead in abeyance, paid a $500 fine and has to keep his nose clean for 3 years . . . oh, he gets to keep his job at KUTV as well. See what Dave had to say.
Blogging for business
Oct 9th
I thought I would take a minute to give a shout out to the guys putting on the Blogging 4 Business Conference, which is being held here in Salt Lake City October 22.
Speakers include:
- Lee Gibbons, CEO of Podango
- Gary Goldhammer, Interactive VP at Edelman (the largest privately held PR firm in the world). Edelman has more than 2200 employees and did more than $324 million in business last year. The next largest private firm has 593 employees and did under $100 million last year.
- Rand Bateman, Bateman IP Law Group
- David Politis, Politis Communications
- Wendy Piersall, emomsathome
The pallet may have been a factor
Sep 20th
A woman traveling on a motorcycle hit a pallet in the middle of the road at 7000 South and 700 West.
She flipped end-over-end before getting thrown from her bike.
Midvale police say she was not wearing a helmet and speed may have been a factor. She was taken to a hospital with serious injuries.
Police warn drivers carrying large loads to make sure they are secure so these types of accidents don’t happen.
- via KSL.com
I hope she’s okay.
The inspiration for Wikipedia
Sep 20th
The man credited with founding Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales — known to Wikipedians as “Jimbo” — was a finance major at Auburn University when the Mises Institute’s Mark Thornton suggested he read “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” a now-famous essay written by Austro-libertarian economist and Nobel laureate Friedrich von Hayek. The essay argues that prices in the market represent a spontaneous order that results from the interaction of individuals with diverse wants, allowing them to cooperate to achieve complex goals. According to a June 2007 Reason magazine interview, this insight of Hayek’s is what led Wales to found Wikipedia. The rather lofty vision that inspired Wales? “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.”
via Mises.org
Want to work for the Utah Jazz?
Sep 19th
