Karaoke Machine Inventor Dies At Age 100

by Kevin Burton    Shigeichi Negishi, the inventor of the world’s first commercially-available karaoke machine, has died in Japan at age 100, according to National Public Radio.    Never knew the man, but boy has he filled up my Saturday nights.    You take a character from Billy Joel’s Piano Man who is“sure that I …

Hey Marketers, Watch Your Language

by Kevin Burton    The good people at http://www.thoughtco.com have poked into some language-barrier marketing stories and discovered some of them are simply not true.    The first one burst my bubble.    I heard somewhere that Chevrolet had to stop selling Nova cars in Mexico because “no va” in Spanish means, “it doesn’t go.” …