|
|
January 2008 - Posts
-
|
|
|
Thursday, January 31, 2008 10:23 AM
|
In this paean to the good old days , Nick Carr illuminates a seldom seen drawback to transparency -- the fact that things are just too easy. To whit: Villages have been overrun by cars and lorries whose drivers robotically follow the instructions dispensed Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Monday, January 28, 2008 6:56 AM
|
I saw the Target story show up in my RSS feeds last week and didn't write about it. Target doesn't care about bloggers, blah blah blah. This New York Times story made me change my mind. Nut of the controversy: Early this month, the blog’s founder, Amy Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Sunday, January 27, 2008 8:01 PM
|
In the early days of the web and acceptance of this thing called the Internet, one of my favorite pastimes was to log on via a 28.8 bps modem and my local ISP and use gopher and early betas of Mosaic to poke around the web (or what would become the web). Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Wednesday, January 23, 2008 6:30 AM
|
I've been a skeptic of second life all along, not because I think the premise is wrong, but because the hype was out of control compared to the experience (Hello, media? World of Warcraft? More users? More community engagement?). One of the best lines Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Monday, January 21, 2008 8:13 AM
|
I'm not sure if the NYT Business Section editors intentionally set a theme for coverage this fine Monday morning, but planned or not, the business section is a great look at the challenges and opportunities facing journalism today. First up, David Carr Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Wednesday, January 16, 2008 3:29 PM
|
but a whimper. Thus endeth one of the saddest chapters I can remember in deceitful tactics by a PR firm. Via writing on the wal , this quote from the New Yorker article: What’s important is that any description of Working Families for Wal-Mart should Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 10:12 PM
|
Couple of disclosures, up front, since I'm going to be writing about Apple. I head the PR account at Waggener Edstrom for Microsoft. Microsoft competes with Apple. Keep this in mind. :) Over the years, I've spent a fair amount of time admiring the way Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Friday, January 11, 2008 1:55 PM
|
Okay, i'm late to the party, but this whole outrage over the CES TV outage is a bit out of control. Yes, turning off the TVs was juvenile. Yes, it was funny. But good lord, it was not the most important thing that happened at CES, and there will be no Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Thursday, January 10, 2008 9:26 PM
|
Sort of a long day at work today, so it was good that I'd decided to forget how grim my last run home experience was and try again. This time, I chose the run/bus/run route, from the office in downtown Bellevue to the last bus stop on the 520 bridge, Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 9:35 AM
|
Nice synopsis here of the president of facebook hoax that was bought hook/line/sinker by huge swaths of the French media. Let's not pick on the French press too much; the media in general can be pretty susceptible to hoaxes, especially ones fronted by Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Wednesday, January 09, 2008 7:07 AM
|
A pet peeve of mine is what appears to be the increasing inability of journalists and the population at large to make any distinction between opinion and fact, or to put as much news value behind opinion as fact. I wrote about this last summer , and today's Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Saturday, January 05, 2008 6:42 PM
|
There are two ways to read Caleb Crain's New Yorker essay about the death of reading. You can read it like I did the first time, filled with dread and apprehension about what it said (more on that in a bit), or like I did the second time, with a more Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Saturday, January 05, 2008 8:27 AM
|
Joe Nocera at the NYT had a similar Amazon customer experience to the one I had -- and it sparks a great column that touches on a few topics dear to my heard -- the true value of great focus on customer service, and the fact that often Wall Street devalues Read More...
|
| |
-
|
|
|
Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:04 PM
|
This is a blog about communications, and I'm always striving to remind people of the power of words, of language to shape/influence/inspire. At our best, as communicators, this is what we strive for. I think we all remember certain words or stories or Read More...
|
| |
|
|
|