Recently readMy podcast interview with Perez Hilton, conducted on Sunday afternoon, is up now at the Engagement Alliance website.
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I don’t mention my work much here, but over at the Latitude search engine marketing website, Dylan (our CEO) and Richard (our COO) are liveblogging from SES in New York. It’s especially fun seeing that Dylan is such a natural blogger, such an easily amusing writer. Don’t worry, Chairman Dyl, we’ll all still fear you […]
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Just came from hastily arranged drinks with Jeff Jarvis. Not that I’m surprised, but he’s a class act and it was extremely energising for me just to talk to him face to face, after conversing via blogs and email for the last three years. The offline extension of what happens in the blogosphere matters a […]
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This blog is the most beautiful, sad thing I’ve read in a long time. When I told Antoine about it, he just said: “Whoa.”
Dan Steinberg’s six-year-old daughter died on Wednesday - four days ago. Her death was most unexpected, and Dan has been blogging about Elena and the rest of his family in the […]
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Okay, I’m getting the hang of this, I think. (Still can’t make Newsgator give my posts the cute, green podcast icon, but oh well.) And it’s great to focus on such a fantastic business, owned by such good people and friends.
From the Ristretto Roasters fan blog:
From my home in London, England, I called Ristretto […]
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Over at the Engagement Alliance, I’m semi-ranting and brainstorming about how bars and restaurants - specifically in Manchester’s gay village - can re-invigorate their clientele and bottom line in the age of online socialising. All of the moaning about how things have changed and it’s not fair is kind of getting to me; I thought […]
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If you buy Naked Conversations, the business blogging book by Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, and don’t think much of it, technology PR guy Alan Weinkrantz will personally reimburse you for the cost of the book (and you don’t have to send him your copy, either). How’s that for an endorsement? Order from Amazon here.
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I like this, via Hillary Johnson, on the work and leisure mash-up:
“People who have learned to answer email on Sunday evenings also need to learn how to go to the movies on Monday afternoons. By redesigning the architecture of time, we can make room for work, leisure, and idleness.”
–Ricardo Sempler, president, Semco
And in this post […]
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Most Friday nights, I’m having one too many drinks and feeling guilty about all that I know I will not get done over the weekend. Tonight, I’m in hyper-productivity mode. I just made what I think will be my first ever podcast, an excerpt of my call to Hillary in which I basically said, “Hey, […]
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I was just talking to Nancy Rommelmann (I call her Mommelmann for a very good reason) about how I’m trying to stop believing that it is my responsibility to protect everyone I care about from their shortcomings, how I’m trying to stop feeling guilty for not cleaning up their messes, or for not doing more […]
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I have to be in LA that weekend for Robert Avrech’s daughter’s wedding on the Sunday, so Hillary and I are going to drive or fly up to San Jose/Sunnyvale on the Saturday for Techdirt Greenhouse. Mike Techdirt writes:
A few people have asked “who will be presenting?” since we don’t list the presenters on the […]
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I’ve got a post on the ass-backwards attitude of state officials towards value sharing on Samizdata (cross-posted to the Engagement Alliance).
Speaking of the EA, Hillary Johnson has written a fantastic piece on the virtues of dumb design over there:
To trot out an analogy, look at the propagation of the automobile in our culture. Most of […]
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So obviously the other thing I’ve been doing while home sick is soaking in frivolity. If you can’t do that when you’re stuck under one roof for days on end, when can you do it? (When I was a kid, being home sick meant you weren’t allowed to do ANYTHING which might bring you a […]
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