Scot Petersen

I didnt plan to write this week about my recent 10-day vacation to the hinterlands of Wisconsin, mainly because nothing much happened to write about, which is a good thing. But upon returning, a Wall Street Journal column caught my eye. Jared Sandbergs weekly Cubicle Culture column is always interesting, and the Aug. 25 edition […]

By the time this column is published, Google may or may not have launched its initial public offering, which may or may not have gone out at more than $100 per share and which may or may not have either fallen drastically or spiked upward during its first days of trading. Stock market investing is […]

Cisco Systems posted record earnings last week, but the revenue wasnt enough to keep Ciscos shares from falling to an 11-month low. Net sales for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2004 were $5.9 billion, compared with $4.7 billion for the same quarter last year, an increase of 26 percent. Net income in the most recent […]

For all its rah-rah speeches and in-your-face partisanship, subtle ironies stuck out for me last month at the Democratic National Convention in Boston. Heres one: There were about three media members for every one delegate present—15,000 versus 5,600 were the numbers DNC officials were throwing around—yet few of those so-called newspeople found much to say […]

BOSTON—Much ink, both real and electronic, has been spilled over the presence of credentialed media bloggers at this weeks Democratic National Convention. They have received almost as much attention as Michael Moore and other celebrities in attendance at the Fleet Center. Perhaps the most useful part of the bloggers presence at the DNC is the […]

A lot of things have changed in the past four years. In 2000, the new millennium was dawning, and the economy was at the apex of the dot-com boom. The country was in the middle of what would become a tumultuous election season. The future seemed bright, and at the Democratic National Convention in Los […]

At ages 5 and a half and almost 8, my children are already computer geeks in training. The younger one is a whiz at online games. He can download and install them and change desktop settings, while the older one types in URLs he finds on TV and on cereal boxes. Am I worried about […]

As the sports adage goes, sometimes the best trade is the one you dont make. Baseball history, for instance, is full of deals that were so lopsided that some teams wish they could have taken them back, such as the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees or the Cubs trading Lou Brock to […]

Rats. I finally get around to buying a handheld computer, and I start seeing headlines like “Is the PDA dead?” I should have seen this coming. We covered the news this month that Sony is halting production of its Clié line of handhelds for the rest of the year—and maybe for good. The announcement came […]

Blogging is the hottest thing on the Internet since, well, the Web browser. This is not news, as just about everybody who spends time online is maintaining a blog, regularly reading and contributing to a blog, or knows someone who is maintaining or regularly reading and contributing to a blog. And blogs are everywhere. The […]