Archives for November, 2005
MediaPost Makes Bold Suggestions for Email Marketing
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Pointer to a MediaPost column that discusses the “seductive attraction” of madness like the endless “best day to send email” discussions, and why one-size-fits-all approaches are generally weak. Nice to see this point aired again, and yes, yes, yes: there is no “one true day” for email marketing…and while we’re at it, one-size-fits-all sucks as [...]
Network Diagrams for Compulsive Freaks
Friday, November 11th, 2005
Been spending time at our colocation facility this week, moving stuff around, cleaning out old junk, and the like, and this leads naturally into checking and updating network diagrams. Somehow I’ve managed to use Visio for years without ever noticing that the “Basic Network Shapes” template includes “keyboard” and “mouse”…are there people out there who [...]
Ready for Winter
Friday, November 11th, 2005
And now a picture of Gwen, very pleased with her new coat:
Language Matters: RSS
Thursday, November 3rd, 2005
Back in July, when some folks were upset about various other folks’ intention to employ RSS without actually calling it RSS, I started a post and then gave up on it — while language seems like a big deal to me, I didn’t think that many other people would care. Apparently I was wrong. Nice [...]
Attention, Aggregation, Customization
Tuesday, November 1st, 2005
In his post The Looming Attention Crisis Fred Wilson notes that he’s already past his saturation point for RSS feeds, among other things. [And I haven't said this in a while, but you should really go read the original post now.] Quite a few other people have been talking about this as well, but since [...]
