Over the past couple weeks we’re seeing a lot of folks coming around to the view I express last year: The thing that calls it all into question for me is the number of people who are generally ex-online marketing folks now using strange titles like “Social Media User Guru” or something equally ludicrous. It reminds me of a networking group I once attended that turned out to be a room full of sales people, each hoping to sell something,…
Following Ari Herzog’s example, here are my top 10 posts of 2008. It’s a hard choice to make, but the votes are all in and I’ve got the envelope from our friends at Price Waterhouse containing the winners: Why Most Online Communities Fail… A peice that really sums up the problems we face building online communities, and the common problems that cause them to fail. The Newspaper Decline – The Side We Don’t See – A great analysis of the problems facing…
Great stuff – give it a listen. Sorry, lost track and meant to post this yesterday…
I got a few photos as I was headed out to my friends house in Hubbarston I thought I’d share… It is strange to me that a thing that could cause such devastation could at the same time be so beautiful. (These photos came from my Iphone, so quality isn’t what it could be with a real camera…and a real photographer)
It’s Christmas, that magical time of year when we settle old scores, and lay the seeds of discontent for the forthcoming year’s grudges. No, wait, that’s not the way it’s supposed to be. We’re supposed to be thankful for the love we share, for all the good things that happened in the previous year, and look forward to prosperity in the New Year. In case anyone else forgot… In that spirit, I’d like to thank all of you for your…
Okay, the next one that wishes me a “White Christmas” gets a candy cane where the Star of Bethlehem don’t shine… We’ve gotten to the point that we’re pushing the panic button for everything these days. So it snowed for a couple days. Still it’s only a little over a half a cubit of snow, and it’s the fluffy stuff at that. Not nearly the “Snowmageddon” that was predicted. A few random thoughts from the snow storm: Another plow truck…
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performing “Merry Christmas Baby” – what Christmas is all about!
You’d think it wouldn’t be hard this year to come up with a list of the ten worst autos, but indeed, with so many trying so hard, the folks at TheTruthAboutCars.com have had a real struggle. Yet they once again came through with a list that’s becoming a Christmas tradition for me… TTAC’s Ten Worst Autos 2008: The votes are cast. The polls are closed. And there’s no question which vehicles our Best and Brightest consider the TTAC’s Ten…
Here, finally, are the photos from The Chain of Lights in Sutton, Ma last weekend. They were taken with my Canon A530 5 megapixels, point and shoot. Some of the photos I took, others were taken my my 9 year old Mackenzie who you can see in many of the shots. I will be going back in tonight to add captions and descriptions to the photos. These are scaled down, if you want a hi res version, post a comment…
Barry Diller had some rather sharp words for CEOs this week in regards to the recent spate of layoffs: “The idea of a company that’s earning money, not losing money, that’s not, let’s say ‘industrially endangered,’ to have just cutbacks so they can earn another $12 million or $20 million or $40 million in a year where no one’s counting is really a horrible act when you think about it on every level. First of all, it’s certainly not necessary….