by Bruce Turkel | Dec 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
The other day Patrick sent an email suggesting that I link my blog email titles to my actual blog at https://www.turkeltalks.com . That way, readers could add the posts they’re interested in to their InstaPaper accounts and read them at their leisure. Post my blog to...
by Bruce Turkel | Nov 7, 2011 | Uncategorized
We’ve all seen the famous scene in Casablanca where Captain Renault reacts to the graft taking place right under his watch. “I’m shocked, SHOCKED, to find that gambling is going on in here!” he says as the croupier hands him a pile of money. The movie was a prescient...
by Bruce Turkel | Sep 27, 2011 | Uncategorized
Phil Falcone, a twenty-first century hedge fund manager, is making a three billion dollar bet on LightSquared, his new wireless network. According to his website, LightSquared “will deploy an open wireless broadband network using a technology called Long Term...
by Bruce Turkel | Aug 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
How do you feel about typos? I hate ‘em. The few times I’ve discovered mistakes in my blog posts (or worse, when you’ve discovered a typo and called me on it) I die the death by a thousand cuts. Humiliating and eternally painful, typos are the shorthand indications of...
by Bruce Turkel | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Twitter has forever changed the way people communicate because being limited to 140 characters forces writers to be succinct. Even if you dislike Twitter, you can thank it for forcing people to shorten their prose. As editor Arthur Polotnik wrote, “You write to...
