Archive for June, 2007
links for 2007-06-19
OffTheBus: HuffPost’s Citizen Journalism Project Gets A Name, and Gets Rolling
Arianna Huffington announces a new feature of the Huffington Post called “Off the Bus”, a new citizen journalism project. Andrew Keen must been having a meltdown….
(tags: citizenjournalism politics news)
AviationReviews.com Blog Beech 1900D No Gear
What you call a “bad flight”…
(tags: airport airtravel travel)
Thomas Hawk Replies
After my post about Thomas Hawk, CEO behavior, and Zooomr vs. Flickr last night, Thomas jumped into the comments and kicked off the discussion. Kudos to him.
Due to some comment limitations his in-depth reply wasn’t accepted and he asked me to repost it:
Jake, a little background on my involvement in Flickr over the past few [...]
links for 2007-06-18
Bush administration attacks ’shield’ for bloggers
Why does this not surprise me?
(tags: politics privacy blogging)
Failure succeeds for London 2012 logo - International Herald Tribune
Interesting recap of the London 2012 Olympics logo launch.
(tags: olympics marketing2.0)
Batman: The Dark Knight’s viral promo kicks your viral promo’s ass (and takes names)
Bad ass viral campaign for what is looking to be [...]
Drunken, expletive-laced rants are bad forum fodder.
It’s sad I have to say this, but…
When you’re the CEO and/or Lead Developer & co-owner of Company A, it’s usually counterproductive to your business efforts to hang out on Company B’s user forums bashing them and belting out drunken, late-night, expletive -laced rants about Company B.
Unfortunately, this is exactly what happened recently on the [...]
links for 2007-06-17
The Escapist - Blowing Up Galaxies
Great article about the debacle that was and has been the “Star Wars Galaxies” MMOG.
(tags: mmog gaming starwars)
Post-Webinar Podcast
As mentioned previously, I was invited to an interview/webinar with Stuart Crawford from the Calgary Small Business Show last week. It was a great time talking about my favorite topic: Creating communities and how to ensure "Everybody goes home happy".
If you weren’t able to attend, check out the recorded version.
Thanks again to Stuart for [...]
links for 2007-06-16
Designer//Slash//Model
A bit of weekend fun for you!
(tags: humor video)
Women to watch in 2007
Advertising Age publishes their 2007 list of "women to watch". Some sharp cookies on the list!
(tags: marketingnews)
Event Recap: Online Community Unconference
Last week I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Online Community Unconference put on by ForumOne (huge kudos to Bill Johnston and Kaliya Hamlin).
If you’re not familiar with the unconference concept, I strongly suggest taking part in one. Here’s how the event broke down:
1. After a brief introduction, attendees were invited to come up [...]
Fantastic Business Card
There’s nothing better than discovering a creative backside to a business card when you get back to the office. This one is for a new contact I met at the Online Community Unconference last week. He works for Wetpaint, the wiki company. Fantastic connection.
links for 2007-06-14
London 2012 - Create your own design
“Download the design templates, do something creative with them and upload the results to our online gallery.”
(tags: london2012 usergeneratedcontent)
The Star Wars Holiday Special - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How have I never heard of this?? As bad as Phantom Menance?
(tags: starwars movies)
Torontoist: Tall Poppy Interview: Scott McCloud
An interview with a [...]
