Friday Music Video: Pilobus
….and now for something completely different. Val Ostrander sent this link in and I thought you folks would find it interesting.
Citizen Journalism
An interesting discussion yesterday on Citizen Journalism, most of which I can’t relay due to confidentiality. One of the more experienced editors in the group noted this salient point: We’ve got 5 layers of editing, designed specifically to keep errors from making it to print and to the site, but they still do. Bloggers don’t even have that… That’s been my fundamental problem with the entire citizen journalist movement. We’re giving up on the real value that news media…
Thoughts on our First Snow Storm of the Year
The first snow of the year in Massachusetts is an interesting time. Even if it’s a dusting, it will usually tie the area roads up in knots. It’s as though most of us forget how to drive in snow over the warmer months. Then there’s the inevitable rush to the stores to buy milk the night before the storm. You’d think we were looking at the beginning of the apocalypse…but that probably is a result of the famous 1978 blizzard,…
Friday Music Video: Buckshot LeFonque
Here’s something a little different: Buckshot LeFonque. I used one of the cuts on a MySpace page I did for Philip Ciampa Salons – and here’s a YouTube video for you to check out. Check out the Wikipeda entry below to get they full story. Dig Deeper: Wikipedia Entry
Ted Turner, Landowner Extraordinaire…
Mike Collins pointed this out to me yesterday: Ted Turner is the USA’s largest landowner, with more than 2,000,000 acres. To put that into context, the total acreage of Rhode Island (our barometer of measuring bigness by contrast to smallness) is just 776,960 (that figure includes the waters of Narragansett Bay. Why’s this matter? States like Nebraska are concerned that Turner will one day create a vast wilderness area and turn it over to the Federal Government. While that sounds…
YouTube – The Onslaught of the MLMs
I was hoping this morning I could throw up a quick YouTube video, since I’m still onsite and have almost no time. So I fired up YouTube and did a quick search by date on Marketing. Then a search on “Small Business,” and then followed with “Web 2.0” and “Social Networking.” The results surprised even old jaded me… I guess I should have expected it. The multilevel marketers are using YouTube at staggering volumes. Try anyone of those searches and…
Limited Time This Week
I’m working on an Ektron Content Management install in Washington DC this week and have limited time or access to blog. I’ll be back and blogging next week.
Friday Music Video: Bruce Springsteen
Here’s “Kitty’s Back” from October 30, 2007 at the Sports Arena, Los Angeles. An incredibly intense jam…clean crisp sound. Dig Deeper: Wikipedia Page BruceSpringsteen.net (check out the live page for set lists, with high quality video clips from most nights).
Maureen Rogers: Springsteen as a Manager
Maureen Roger’s got a great piece up on here Pink Slip Blog in which she cites an article from US News and World Report that notes that there is a lot Bruce Springsteen can teach us about managing aging brands. Its a must read (both articles) and I won’t go crazy getting into the discussion. Here’s a taste: Okay, this was advice for what the CEO of the corporation with the aging brand can do. But most of it holds…
Social Media – What it really means to marketing
Maki over at DoshDosh.com had an interesting post on Social Media Marketing the other day. The money quote: Remember this well: social media marketing is not merely about hitting the frontpage of Digg or any other social news website. It is a strategic and methodical process to establish your influence, reputation and brand within communities of potential customers, readers or supporters. And this is what social media marketing is in a nutshell. In short, social media is relevance to marketers. …