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I'm Jake McKee
People call me The Community Guy
People call me The Community Guy
Anyone who travels a lot can tell you how silly most airport security methods employed by the TSA are. Consider: You’re required to show an ID and your boarding pass in order to make sure the names match. What does this really do? And now that I can print out a boarding pass at home, [...]
Paraphrasing Bono: There’s been a lot of talk, maybe too much talk about this year’s SXSWi. This next song is Douchey South by Douchey. This year’s SXSW Interactive had 12,000 people attend. It was bigger than SXSW Music for the first time. It had 4,000 people more than the year before. Largely I heard two [...]
Have you ever offered cold drinks to people laying telecom lines outside your house? Have you ever pulled over to talk to telecom contractors to find out when their work in your neighborhood will be completed? Have you ever counted the days until you can have Verizon FiOS service activated? I have. I was literally [...]
Last week I wrote about the United Breaks Guitars story and the reaction that because it wasn’t directly responsible for a drop in United stock price, it was still significantly problematic. So you can imagine my reaction when I saw the photo below last week while standing inline at the American Airlines check-in desk. I [...]
Did you hear about (or more importantly see the YouTube video) of the United Breaks Guitar song and story? Here’s how the Vanno blog sums it up: Social media marketers (all 100 million of them, if my Twitter count is correct) are bending over backward to congratulate themselves on the effect the 4M YouTube views [...]