Jeff Rusinow

In a few short days, several friends (to include two former bosses that I worked with over 25 years ago!)  will be visiting us in Phoenix for Super Bowl weekend.   We have tickets and reservations to several events, but haven’t scored entry to the Big Game.  Yet.
Which brings me to a topic I’ve been meaning [...]

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There are some extraordinary forces at work impacting Internet-based companies that are wrecking havoc on ‘historical’ business models.  My two main points:
 

Better Mousetrapping At Accelerating Speeds – Everywhere one turns to on the Internet, there is a recently launched and often dramatically improved [...]

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In late November, 2007, The Medical College of Wisconsin(MCW)  Department of Physiology finally relented to public pressure and will no longer be killing dogs in their student labs.  MCW was joined  by the New York Medical College, which also announced on November 26, 2007 that it will be ending it’s live dog lab, the fourth [...]

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While it was nice to get some press taking note of the self-publishing of my book “The Rise & Stall of Kohl’s Department Stores”, there are couple points of clarification and corrections regarding this morning’s article:1. ETR Group did own Christmas.com, but I sold it in late 2006;2. The genesis of trying to [...]

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An offshoot of what we were trying to do with TopNetPix.com in aggregating great websites into meaningful categories was putting together a pretty cool portal for shopping. Gr8find.com is really a spin-off of 1-Stop Shopping on TNP. The intent was to make searching for stuff you might want to buy more interesting, efficient [...]

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As friends and family know, I’m really into birding. I’m hoping to aggregate interesting links and content going forward on this site. For starters, here is a cool link that’s managed by We Energies in Wisconsin, which has set up webcams aimed at large nestboxes at five of their power plants. The [...]

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Having had some experience these past few months learning about and launching Facebook applications, and discussing the issue with people who have worked with me on these projects, here is my take:1.  There are a lot of stupid but incredibly popular apps out there.  For the time being, FB profilers, as part of that whole [...]

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My Stepdad, Irv Rusinow, was a maker of educational films, mostly in the 1960’s and early 1970’s.  Chances are that if you went to elementary, junior high or high school during this time, you saw a film that my Dad produced and directed.  My Mom [...]

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On December 29 driving down by the Boulders resort in Carefree, AZ,  Jen spotted and I identified a soaring, immature Northern Goshawk, which was a new bird on my life list,  American Birding Association (ABA) Area species #568,  just as the year was coming to a close.  Goal for 2008: reaching 600, or put another [...]

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