Seth Godin uses his Sunday to demonstrate the difference (with photos):
This is marketing. Advertising, on the other hand, is fun and expensive but very far removed from the real thing.
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I never thought I’d enjoy waking up at 6.30 AM on a Sunday morning. I’m not sure whether the fact that I now do is grounds for celebration or therapy. (For me, I mean. No doubt it’s grounds for yawning for those reading this - apart from those who also suffer from accelerated aging…)
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We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
-Elie Wiesel
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Sick but true.
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Also, he is not terribly clever (via Damian Counsell). How embarrassing that this advocate of a man who supports the stoning of rape victims and gays is London’s mayor. Try to imagine how much it winds me up when someone tells me, “Ah, Ken’s all right, I quite like him.” Multiply that times a trillion, […]
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I wrote recently that Technorati’s CEO and his developers always seem to show up in the comments on negative blog posts about their company, all transparency and good manners. I would love to see their response to this post, which criticizes exclusive ping deals which they’ve brokered with some blog hosting companies. I think commenter […]
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Rogers Cadenhead:
As the situation grew steadily worse in New Orleans last week, you might have wondered why people didn’t just leave on foot. The Louisiana Superdome is less than two miles from a bridge that leads over the Mississippi River out of the city.
The answer: Any crowd that tried to do so was met by […]
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Dennis Howlett always has thought-provoking things to say on his blog, but two recent entries really caught my eye. One addresses the issue of job titles:
I came across this: Director of Lasting Impressions - (scroll down). Maybe we should all have one!
Or…for a chief marketing officer - how about: “Director of Conversations and Innovation?”
Customer […]
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Cathy Seipp’s latest piece for the Independent Women’s Forum is something that the parents of girls should read and remember - along with security expert Gavin de Becker’s book, The Gift of Fear. (I have been known to buy several copies of that book and give it away to female friends. I would suggest you […]
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From Newton Emerson in the Irish Times, reproduced with permission by my mate Mick Fealty at Slugger O’Toole.
Read it, learn it, remember it the next time some columnist or presenter says something daft.
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Venture capitalist Fred Wilson posted the photo at right, under the title Inspiration.
I look at this artwork every day and it reminds me that I gotta get stuff done.
It also sits right over the sitting area in my office and speaks to the central question I want to know from entrepreneurs when I meet with […]
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173 Drury Lane, a blog about the British supermarket chain with the shaky performance of late (Sainsbury’s), is wonderful. It satisfies the business geek in me, as well as my desire to know about the inner workings of the grocery store where I do most of my shopping.
When I was working with the Big Blog […]
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And if so, who cares? Not Alex Singleton:
The ten year old who two decades ago would dream of having his own TV station can now borrow his dad’s £200 camcorder and put a programme up on the web or on a peer-to-peer network for his friends to watch. The digital world that has pulled regional […]
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Women make less money than men for very good reasons, and systematic discrimination isn’t one of them.
A mostly unrelated aside: One thing I have never understood is how anyone can claim that men make more than women for doing “the exact same job”. On paper, the job may well be the same, but when it […]
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