4 posts and columns on haiku

QOTD: And Don’t Get Me Started on That Farewell Haiku …

“The underlying engineering teams are so good, but the direction they got was so astonishingly bad that even they couldn’t succeed. Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.”

– Oracle CEO Larry Ellison tars and feathers Sun’s blogging, Haiku-writing former CEO, Jonathan Schwartz.

AOL Poaches Another Google Exec

in News on February 4, 2010 at 11:00 am PT

Sun CEO: Parting Is Such Tweet Sorrow

in News on February 4, 2010 at 4:30 am PT

Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz was the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to put up his own blog. Late Wednesday night, he became the first CEO of a Fortune 500 company to step down from that position via Twitter.

MicroHoo: BoomTown's Favorite Email Haiku Analysis

in News on May 3, 2008 at 8:21 pm PT

BoomTown gets a lot of emails from Web players, big and small, commenting or, more typically, griping on whatever tech topic is hot that day. And yesterday, after Microsoft (MSFT) abandoned its takeover bid for Yahoo (YHOO), it was like Christmas in July–our mailbox was packed. But one stood out above all, from a person [...]