email list management

My friend John was trying to think of a way to explain the problem with digital rights management to his dad and friend of ours who don't see what's wrong with it. He compiled a list of examples of DRM-related problems to help people understand what the big deal is with DRM.

Not every employee dust-up has to be refereed by you. In fact, often the best strategy is to stand back and watch, according to this Harvard Management Update article.

Lombardi®, the leader in business process management (BPM) software for Global 2000 companies, today announced the Public Beta availability of Lombardi Blueprint™, an entirely new 'on-demand' process improvement tool that is used to collaboratively map an organization's business processes, identify problems, and prioritize improvement opportunities

So an issue came up last week at work. Project management needed a certain radio button list to be “sticky” (that is how it was described in the bug).

Was the Novell/Microsoft deal a worthwhile well-meaning effort between renegade open-source geeks at Microsoft and geeks at Novell that got derailed by salespeople and management, after which it was turned into a nightmare deal with the devil?