Archive for December, 2004

A book we don’t need…

I suppose this was bound to happen, whether it should have or not:
Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies
 

Another Great Quote

Martin passed this great quote along:
Nobody believes the official spokesman… but everybody trusts an unidentified source.
-Ron Nesen
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Flame Wars - by design

Clay Shirky takes a look at flame wars as part of the process of any mailing list or forum.

A shining example

I love great customer service experiences.
For Christmas, my folks bought me an iTalk for my iPod. I had originally picked up a Belkin Universal Microphone Adapter in order to plug in an headset mic for the Community Guy podcasts I’m working on. The Belkin worked like a champ and I was very impressed. But since [...]

What is Flickr

An interesting look at the question “What is Flickr“:

I?ve been trying for a week or so to figure out what flickr is. I mean I know it?s a photo sharing site, but what makes it so damn interesting? Then, last night, I finally figured it out: flickr is a MMORPG.
Really, it should have been obvious, [...]

The Long Tail Blog

The author of the fantastic article in Wired recently, “The Long Tail“, now has a blog. Great reading.

Great Quote

“Saying Windows is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you’ve witnessed the second coming.”
- Guy Kawasaki

Blogging Admissions

The MBA program at Wharton is using “Student Diaries” (i.e. blogs) as a recruiting tool.
They have also created an “Admissions Blog“. Very slick. Nice way to show your incoming students that you’re teaching new principles, not the biz concepts from decades past.

Community Bubble

The FCC and FAA are discussing allowing cell phones on planes.

Just when air travel seems to have become our national gripe, along comes a possibility to make us appreciate flight as we now know it: A cabin full of people talking, loudly and simultaneously, on their cell phones.
Hear the prayer of frequent flier Bill [...]

Google Christmas Evangelism

In another stroke of Google genius (those two words more and more seem to be associated, don’t they?), they’ve released a pretty cool method of enabling Google evangelism.

 We’ve packaged all our software tools into a convenient holiday keepsake that fits nicely into a stocking or adds a festive touch to that new computer you’re giving [...]