Steven Toomey is a consultant for Accenture in New York City. Steve has an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, graduated from Bates College, and spent a year studying at the University of St. Andrews. Previously, Steve worked for Adaptive Path and Share Our Strength. He occasionally takes photos. To get in touch, send an e-mail.
Noteworthy
A collection of stuff that I find helpful, interesting, significant, or unusual. Get the RSS feed or check out the archives.
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Everything you ever wanted to know about the true price of text messages.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Introducing w00t, your 2007 Merriam-Webster Word of the Year.
Sunday, August 5, 2007
Forbes writer Daniel Lyons is the man behind Fake Steve Jobs, so says The New York Times.
Friday, July 6, 2007
Sunday, July 1, 2007
The New York Times has the scoop on the strange world of professional tennis racket restringing. And I thought golfers were picky about their equipment.
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Regarding the 2007 PGA TOUR schedule, Tiger Woods giveth — a new event in Washington, DC, on Fourth of July weekend — and Tiger Woods taketh away — The International, and its Modified Stableford System, is history.
Friday, February 23, 2007
Here’s Lane Becker on JetBlue’s disaster-recovery customer service and on the big screen in Darden’s Abbott Auditorium, as part of today’s Darden Technology Conference. Lane was unexpectedly snowed in at Lake Tahoe and missed his flight, but through the miracle of technology we successfully videoconferenced him into the panel. Hooray! Or, as they say in Charlottesville, wahoowah!
Friday, February 16, 2007
My Adaptive Path colleague Ryan Freitas sees dead people.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
I bet Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader would fail to see the humor in this.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Wharton is without question a great business school, and great business schools are generally full of great minds. So I was more than a little disappointed to read Wharton marketing professor Peter Fader’s comments about Apple’s iPhone in a recent Knowledge@Wharton interview.
My biggest problem with Fader’s critique is that it’s painfully obvious the guy did zero research before the interview. He definitely didn’t watch Steve Jobs’s Macworld keynote, or else he wouldn’t have claimed the lack of Mac-related announcements was “a signal that they’re not going to be developing or supporting [the Mac] as much as they used to.” Or that the corporate name change to Apple Inc. was an “admission of defeat.” Or that the iPhone’s lack of a keyboard is a “really, really important” missing feature. Um, not having a plastic keyboard is the whole point of the device! Fader could have saved himself and Wharton a lot of embarrassment if he’d done his homework rather than shooting from the hip. I doubt he’d expect anything less from his students in the classroom.
Still Noteworthy
Slightly older stuff for your enjoyment. Browse all 110 entries in the archives.
- The Monoliths / January 30, 2007
- Fireballed / January 15, 2007
- David Beckham Invades the US / January 12, 2007
- Old Daddy Steve / January 11, 2007
- Visualizing the iPhone / January 10, 2007