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October 2007 - Posts
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Is the party over? Steve Rubel reckons it is and we are all skunk drunk on our own Kool-Aid.
Has the magic gone? Sadly, it seems to be the case for possibly soon to be ex-blogger The Friendly Ghost (or Brendan as we can now call him). Read More
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I will be in fabulous Las Vegas on November 7-9 at the Blog World and New Media Expo. Honestly, I was going to give BWE a pass at first. When I looked at the conference schedule the panel offerings seemed pretty thin, and the schedule for Friday Read More
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According to Dave Hatch, a Research Director at Aberdeen Group, three of the top four marketers' priorities are to do with justifying their existence inside their own business, not whipping the competition outside in the marketplace. Even those Read More
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A couple of weeks ago, Scott Beale told CNET's Rafe Needleman that "The next disaster will be Twittered." Prescient!
We've already talked about how people are using social media to report on the fires; Rafe is particularly interested in how this event spurred Read More
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Wow, that sounds awfully dramatic; as if Steve should be smiling for the cameras and smashing a bottle of champagne across the blog's header.
But if you're like me and use Twitter A WHOLE LOT, you'll be glad to know that you can now follow TNM's Read More
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Three Rings Design is celebrating Halloween by pitting players of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates against hordes of zombies and skeletons!
Fig. 1 - Do not adjust your monitor: undead skeletons are shrouded in darkness
Only a game, of course. But if you're Read More
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Ike Pigott of the American Red Cross created a blog to provide media outlets with up-to-date information about the Red Cross response to the disaster.
Ike didn't use proprietary software, deployed on the Red Cross network and configured by a developer Read More
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Mashable's list of top US election resources, reminded me of some thoughts I had on the subject of politics and online when I was in the US last week.
First, I was amazed how much media bandwidth the whole topic was already consuming, despite Read More
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Pinsent Mason's legal newswire, OUT-LAW News has a story on upcoming Italian legislation covering "editorial products", that may require bloggers to register with the government simply to publish a private blog.
I suspect the keyword is *may*. One has Read More
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I don't why I find this snippet interesting.
The Raw Story runs a story on the cost a wiretap, or telephone tap to us Brits.
Comcast will fix a wiretap for you at $1,000 to install, then its $750 a month to keep on eavesdropping. Not a bad margin Read More
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The San Diego area in Southern California is on fire. The latest I've heard is that 300,000 people have been evacuated. I lived in San Diego during the last big wildfire in 2003--it was a terrifying, tragic event, and only(!) 50,000 people were evacuated Read More
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Back from Seattle.
I was going to post about the impact a windy day can have in the rufty tufty Pacific Northwest (too much of that nature nearby, I guess). But that seems churlish, when I now know that London's main airport needs two hours Read More
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Mike Monteiro, creative director for Mule Design, has had it with unnecessary meetings. As reported in 43 Folders, he's creating "meeting tokens" to reintroduce the idea that everyone's time is a scarce resource that must be paid for if you want to consume Read More
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Great story in the Seattle PI on getting from scratch to an internet startup in under seven hours.
And just $30 in direct costs. That covers a url and a couple of hours snack fuel for the development team.
The essence of the story is that lean, nimble development Read More
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If the concept of a floating bridge doesn't quite tally for you, then the idea of being on a floating bridge in 50 mph winds definitely doesn't appeal. Seattle's 520 floating bridge hasn't quite been closed yet but commuters have had to pick their way Read More
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Have arrived in Seattle. Bellevue in fact.
Our New York offsite was a game of two halves.
The first half - the chilled part pictured below - was in a Central Park bathed in sunshine and involved a hitech scavenger hunt. Some days at work are really arduous. Read More
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The Metia Influence team is shortlisted for PR Week's not-for-profit campaign of the year in its 2007 Awards. If you subscribe you can see more here.
This amuses me.
Not for profit PR campaign. I hope that word doesn't get out this is our Read More
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You see, all you scoffers and naysayers? Social media produces measurable results!
Before social media: no jacket.
After social media: jacket.
That is a 100 percent increase in jacket presence.
Now I wonder if social media can cause a sandwich to Read More
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En route to Heathrow this morning the sun was shining and all was well in middle England. The usual crew of Sunday afternoon business travellers to the US had a spring in their step. For another week their dream lives on. I even saw Read More
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A naive question I know, but interesting to read that Richard Holway - formerly of Ovum and the eponymously named Richard Holway Ltd - now regards himself as an influencer not an analyst. And that he aspires to be a trusted influencer.
I've paid Read More
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Something a bit strange about following the wise words of Forrester's marketing team blog over many months, and then finding someone from a PR agency - Chris Thilk of MWW - suddenly joining the conversation on the site.
All completely transparent Read More
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Every now and again stir up PR agencies (preferably on a Friday afternoon).
Then sit back and watch the response.
Tags: Tom Foremski, PR is dead (again) Read More
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From the Life of Leo (Laporte) blog, a link to Virgin America's new online ads featuring cartoon versions of well-known bloggers.
Pictured: Xeni Jardin, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, Mark Frauenfelder, Pete Rojas, Alex Albrecht, and Kevin Read More
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Kara Swisher has seen Facebook and she is not amused. See The Children’s Hour: Facebook Apps Are for Toddlers (There, We Said It) and The Children’s Hour, Part 2: Can Facebook Apps Grow Up? (She never quite gets around to answering her question, saying Read More
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Google just bought Jaiku. Scoble reckons its a giant leap for Google who are prepping the next wave in social media. The comments thread on Scoble's article provides a nice snapshot of sentiment around different social network sites and tools.
Next wave? Read More
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CIO has a story on the rebranding of a new MSDN blog from hackers @ Microsoft to the slightly less catchy %41%43%45%20%54%65%61%6d (if you do security, you'll get it, apparently).
Aside from raising some thoughts on the nature of branding Read More
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I was burning the midnight oil recently, starting to write an important piece that was due in a couple of days. It didn't take long for me to realize that the job ahead of me would be much harder than I'd thought. Frankly, at that moment Read More
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Nielsen completed a global survey - 26,000+ consumers in 47 markets - which has confirmed that consumers place the greatest trust in... recommendations from other consumers. Well, we all knew that, but its good to have some more confirmation.
More interesting Read More
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Is there something a little bit too direct about this Datamonitor email pitch to clients and prospects?
What would the company accountants say?
Then again the discounts are good, sign up for yours here. Read More
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Right now, visualization techniques and tools are areas where we are investing time. I was planning to post on this, and then everyone else beat me to it...
Charles Arthur has taken a look at this subject in his Guardian techblog
Charles also Read More
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