Archives for October, 2006
Take Me To The River
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006
Scoble now “[doesn't] read separate feeds anymore. I just read everything in one long continuous scrolling Window.” Yep. Makes life easier when you consume the aggregate product rather than the individual feeds, doesn’t it? In Scoble’s case it seems that Google’s feed reader kicked him off the bank and into the river of news; I’m [...]
Can you help Snapfish?
Monday, October 30th, 2006
Please, please help Snapfish. They’re looking for a Director of Customer Relationship Marketing who will, among other things, “be responsible for optimizing the relationship between Snapfish and its customers.” If you do get any candidates in the door, could you make sure that they ask why — in 2006, for gods’ sake — the only [...]
So that’s why the dotcom crash happened…
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
Head over and read (ocregister.com) Colin Stewart’s post Whither Web 2.0? The last paragraph: When the final chapter of the Web 2.0 story is written, the survivors will be the businesses that manage to build that sort of innovative relationship with consumers – and make a profit at the same time. Not to nitpick, but [...]
Blog Money Influence
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
Stories of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Ugly: PayPerPost If you’ve been living under a rock for the last few weeks you may have missed the discussion of PayPerPost‘s business model that’s been spreading like kudzu: just to pick some names you might recognize, Doc Searls, Dan Gillmor, Jason Calcanis, Jeremy Wagstaff, [...]
A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates
Friday, October 13th, 2006
Bruce Schnier today pointed out that A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates, published by the Rand Corporation back when generating random numbers was really hard, has been reprinted and is available on Amazon. [Just as a side note, did anybody read the title and get a vague but disturbing mental image of some [...]
Broken Angel Burns
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
This is really too bad: Broken Angel a…building transformed into uninhibited personal expression?…burned on Tuesday. It’s two blocks away from my home in Brooklyn, visible as I walk home every evening. Artist Arthur Wood has owned, lived in, and been adding to the building — the former Brooklyn Trolley headquarters — since 1979. Searching the [...]
Lunchtime Musings: what Doc Searls (still) wants…
Monday, October 9th, 2006
Doc Searls’ latest post on what he’s calling “Vendor Relationship Management” (VRM) is getting a fair bit of attention. [Yes, pun intended, attention geeks.] This is something that he and others, including me, have been thinking about for a while. Back in 2004, when Doc was looking for a minidisc transcribing machine, I made a [...]
The Large Print Giveth and the Small Print Taketh Away
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Annys Shin has an interesting piece in the Washington Post blogs today, on Verizon Wireless’ definition of unlimited high-speed wireless Internet access. A computer consultant who was foolish enough to use this resource to the tune of 166MB/day had his contract permanently terminated and was told that he had “abused and damaged” Verizon’s network. Now, [...]
