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From The Postal Service’s Web site:

It has recently come to our attention that Apple Computers’ new television commercial for the Intel chip features a shot-for-shot recreation of our video for ‘Such Great Heights’ made by the same filmmakers responsible for the original. We did not approve this commercialization and are extremely disappointed with both parties that this was executed without our consultation or consent. -Ben Gibbard, The Postal Service

The videos: Apple Intel Mac ad & “Such Great Heights.”

What the Justice Department’s search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL) subpoenas mean for you.

I don’t like this. It’s not government’s job to “protect” you from content.

Groupvine made the Old Gold & Black; here’s my latest column and here’s a response to one from last week (it’s got a hilarious opener).

“The Myth of the Great Idea” pretty much reinforces my point about the “Great Ideas Myth” I wrote about last month. 

You do not need a great idea to become a successful entrepreneur or small business owner.  Consider Amazon: chances are, it’s the first site you think of when wanting to purchase books or DVDs online.  But why?  There are hundreds of other options: Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Buy.com, Alibris, etc. 

While Amazon jumped on the scene pretty early in the game, Amazon also achieved its present day success by executing smartly, efficiently and effectively. 

It started with a basic idea: to sell books online.  Wow.  Shocking.  That’s so…simple.

Over a “I Will Teach You to Be Rich,” Ramit Sethi writes:

The myth of The Great Idea is a dangerous one. It makes you constantly search and search for something that you’ll probably never find.

OK, good point, you say — where’s the part about execution, Scott?

But wait, there’s more!

Ramit:

“It’s all in the execution”….”But you can do better than most people because you’ll stop searching and start doing.”