Over at the American Express Open Forum I posted a video of a panel of teenage entrepreneurship panel. Delightful stuff that will inspire you—and scare you too. Click here to view it. Please mark it “found useful” if you do find it useful.

On Friday, May 29, 2009, fourteen bloggers and “distinguished visitors” served a twenty-four hour tour of duty on the USS Nimitz. The following 140 or so pictures and videos document this visit. This is a very long blog posts as blog posts go, and I know there are ways to create slideshows or other forms of clickable displays. I’ve done it this way for three reasons:

1. A carrier is a very complex beast, and we saw a lot of stuff.

Over at the American Express Open blog I review a website called Twitterhawk. This site enables you to do automated, directed marketing on Twitter. It’s a very useful tool for anyone who wants to tap Twitter’s awesome marketing potential. Click here to read it. Please mark it “found useful” if you did.

My buddies at Audi loaned me a Q7 TDI (turbo diesel injected) for a few months. This is the first diesel that Audi has brought to the United States since the 1980s. It’s a fifty-state car. One of it’s most compelling features is that it looks mean, not like the typical boxy SUVs.

I interviewed Matt May, author of In Pursuit of Elegance: Why the Best Ideas Have Something Missing

Dave Balter, the founder of BzzAgent, provided me with ten tips for building a brand community. Check out his tips here if you're trying to build an online community for your company. Please mark it “found useful” if you did.

On a recent trip to Kansas City, I took a tour of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Organized league structure occurred in 1920 with the formation of the Negro National League in Kansas City.