We went to the Adam Smith Institute’s Dead Trees & Pyjama Kids blogging event last night. To be totally blunt, most of the people I hear talk about blogging don’t know much about it, which doesn’t stop them from thinking that they do. So I was pretty certain that the speaker last night, Danny Finkelstein […]
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If you have anything at all to do with running IT functions and strategy for a company of any size, you need to read what JP Rangaswami has to say about TCOs for enterprise IT and…just, wow. Read him.
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BTW, I’m now helming the blog for the VNU Blogs & Social Media Forum on May 17th. (I didn’t design it or set up the structure or sidebar, though, and am trying to get several things fixed on that score.) If you’re attending or speaking at the event, please do drop by - and if […]
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I just realised I haven’t announced this anywhere, so here goes: While I was at Latitude, the social media intitiatives I introduced saw the company’s press coverage increase sixfold, website traffic increase 7000 per cent, and sales enquiries via the web increase tens of thousands of percentage points. (Latitude was also named the UK’s fastest […]
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Well, how can I argue with a review of our beauty blog that reads like this?
We must admit, they make some radically good points. In fact, these two witty writers named Hillary Johnson and Jackie Danicki are consistently well versed in beauty reasoning. Their tone is never gratuitously quirky; instead, it’s always unabashedly off-beat, matched […]
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Antoine was spellchecking this post and was delighted to see that the suggested alternative for Maoists was maggots. Those things just get better and better!
If previous revolutions are any guide, the King should either get the hell out now, or strike very hard against the Maoists. Louis XV or Napoleon would fire grape shot into […]
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I could only give you rough numbers of how much of this is worth heeding and how much should be ignored, but a clue lies in this remark:
Granted, I’ve only been at blogging for 120 days or so, but marketing is marketing, right?
Guy Kawaski knows how to market for the channel world, so assumes he […]
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How depressing.
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I just set up our home wifi. I was reluctant even to try, because I’d read and heard about how very difficult it was. And I don’t deal well with not being able to do something.
But here it is, all connected. I only had one moment of real frustration, during which I called Michael […]
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Luke Ford’s years-old profile of our friend, journalist Cathy Seipp, really is a great read. (I’ve read it before, but ended up re-reading it Saturday night for some reason I can’t remember.) Part one is here and part two is here. My favourite comment on Cathy comes from our friend Nancy Rommelmann:
Cathy has convictions about […]
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Not really, but check out the copy on this:
Advanced firewall, content filtering and security features protect your PCs, your data, and your family.
If having a Wireless-G ADSL Home Gateway in the house makes it easier for you to sleep at night, well, who am I to judge?
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Dave Winer points to this Business 2.0 piece on the evolution of the Netflix envelope. I’ve been using Amazon’s DVD rental service for a few weeks now - they had a free month on offer, and I signed up for the three DVDs for £5.99 per month plan. (By the way, that free month offer […]
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Cluetrain co-author David Weinberger says he thinks of ‘user-generated content’ as ‘us-generated content‘. I like.
David also links to this Economist article, Among the audience. Great quotation re Barry Diller:
“What an ignoramus!” says Jerry Michalski, with some exasperation. He advises companies on the uses of new media tools. “Look around and there’s tons of great stuff […]
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This could be my personal theme song: I Got a Name by the awesome Jim Croce (who always reminds me of JP Rangaswami, now). Antoine wasn’t too impressed when I insisted on listening to this song several times last night before going to sleep (at 1AM, after I’d forced him to look at “reject PowerPoint […]
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