What I Learned This Week For May 1 2020

By Mike Maddaloni on Friday, May 01, 2020 at 08:44 PM with 0 comments

photo of sidewalk prose in Appleton Wisconsin

It’s May!

  • An anonymous person bought me a coffee last week using the button on my blog for Ko-fi. Whomever they are, thank you! Since I added the button to my blog a few years ago I have only received a few, so it was nice to see the button still works.
  • Google is shutting down the mobile app for its AdSense ad program, replacing it with a Web site. The app was a nice way to see what ad revenue you earned on a daily basis... until ad revenue bottomed out for most people who put ads on their sites. Like me.
  • This past week the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers Single-A baseball team offered a Ballpark Dinner To-Go program. The dinner for 4 included burgers, hot dogs, brats, baked beans, potato salad, cookies and cotton candy. It went well with watching A League of Their Own
  • Draft Kings, the Boston-based fantasy sports and sports betting company went public last week. It’s great to hear about the IPO of innovative companies, and even more so when a friend works there.
  • I never heard of oat whiskey until I bought a bottle of Central Standard Oat Whiskey at Tandem, a local wine and spirits store. The clear spirit over ice was very smooth, and the price was right at $8 for the bottle. As it was a closeout, and checking the distiller’s Web site, they no longer carry it, I have to go back and get what’s left.
  • My good friend Alex Ryan and her Evolve Solutions Group is hosting a free Webinar next week titled Changing the way we work: Selling Remotely. If anyone can give a presentation like this it’s her, and I will be on it.
  • When I registered for Alex’s Webinar through Eventbrite, I subscribed to the calendar rather than just adding it as an event, something I had never done before. It’s not obvious how to undo this on an iPhone, but I found this tutorial on how to unsubscribe to a calendar.
  • The other day I walked on the other side of the street from the main street near my home, as usually I walk on the same side. Low and behold, there’s prose in the sidewalk as shown above. Many sidewalk projects in Appleton have some poetry or verses incorporated in them. I enhanced the photo so you can read it better.

So glad you could join me today.

This is from The Hot Iron, a journal on business and technology by Mike Maddaloni.

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