The best compliment I get is when I meet someone who tells me they have heard about me from someone else.
As the terrible news began to spread, my Facebook feed was filled with messages from people I know telling me they were all right, or asking if someone else had been heard from.
Raise your hand if you have heard one of the statements above from someone in leadership in response to a call for better customer understanding.
And I heard an interesting comment the other week from someone connected with grid issues - that the engineers like to have a bit of wind power in the mix because wind turbines are the easiest thing by far to switch on and off.
The reports of whether Apple had integrated a Trusted Computing countermeasures into their Intel dev kit boxes (and OS X for x86, as well) have been firing back and forth we heard last week from Open for Business that someone on the developer end firmly denied Apple's DRM implementation, while another Apple Developer Connection member confirmed its existence to Cnet.
Have you ever gone out on a limb to email someone, and then never heard back from them?
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They had quite clearly never heard of the Streisand Effect, the idea that attempting to prevent someone from disseminating information on the internet just makes everyone decide to look out for that very information.
How many of us have been told how "scary" certain places are because someone knew someone who'd once heard of someone who'd been robbed on a train or gotten sick from the water?
But markets largely recovered after the agency said the comments didn't come from Ms. Merkel herself but rather were relayed by someone who had heard them.
As someone who has written about immigration for more than 15 years, and heard from hundreds of thousands of readers along the way, I can tell you that most of the anxiety over illegal immigration is cultural.
Three years later, I heard that the same guy was running for president and someone says he's a former community organizer from Chicago.
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