Last week I received a telemarketers call who identified herself as a representative from a national market research firm located in new Jersey. She explained that she was working for a large...
Have you seen George Bush's new site. Eager to jump on the bandwagon and success of Vermont governor and doctor turned grass roots and very successful presidential candidate Howard Dean, George...
It's 11:30pm the night of August 12th. But it's nearly 3am in New York and the delivery trucks are already dropping the Wednesday August 13, 2003 issue of The New York Times on the dirty...
Philip Greenspun shares his insight on economic ratios today. I find the comparison fascinating. […]Forty years ago it cost $500 to buy a factory-made TV and $10,000 to have a nice house built...
Forget Tools. Think. Think. And Think Again. I started this post this morning as a comment on Dina's weblog regarding her Creativity Tools post. As I started to get a bit long-winded for a...
A little blog technology business for a quick post, if you don't mind. I see that Dave, Jake and the crew at UserLand Software have finally implemented trackback into Radio. Radio is the...
Who are you? What exactly do you do? Why is this important? And why should I care? No. I'm not necessarily talking about you as a person. Rather simply inquiring about your company. Many of us...
Jason Kottke didn't take too kindly to concepts outlined by Michael Sippy calling for new features for what could be in a future generation of Apple's iPod. Sippey: […] imagine...
Microsoft is considering selling music online through it's Windows Media Player application. Immitation & Flattery. Imitation is, after all, the best form of flattery. Or so the adage goes...
Just discovered this at Brent Simmon's This is exactly what I was talking about when I called for corporate marketing departments to embrace weblog technologies. Keywords here are “weblog...
Unless you've been sleeping, away from email or wandering the Nazca Plain aimlessly you've probably come across the classic Honda television commercial titled “Cog”. You can see...
You gotta love Howard Dean. At least his marketing (campaign) team. This guy has leveraged Blogs much like Clinton leveraged the internet during his campaigns. But Dean's different. And while...
I know you're wondering. What's Allan writing about now? Thinkers and marketers. You probably can get your head around that. But Red Wine? Sure, the cat's been out of the bag that...
Great follow up article in today's Washington Post about Howard Dean's Internet Candidacy and his role as guest blogger on Larry Lessig's blog […]”The Internet might soon...
Did you see this article in today's New York Times? The title alone will raise the hair on your back; that is if there's any left after the burning siege of anger singes those tiny...
Afternoon at SuperNova: Lots of activity and multi collaborative and community software experience. Notetaking was done through a collaborative tool called Hydra which operates over rendezvous and...
Catching up and increasing my news dosage after a well deserved time off with family, I just ran into Leander Kahney's article in today's Wired titled “Last.fm – Music To...
I sit on a Delta Airlines flight that I connected with from Orange County in Salt Lake City. Flying over the salt flats of Utah and the barren desert below, Delta is showing an extended version of a...
I catch an early flight on Thursday morning from John Wayne Airport to Ronald Reagan International in Washington DC. Gee. Flying from one macho Hollywood star namesake to another. What ever happened...
Have you been following the discussion? I mean if you think blogging is simply the outlet for the frustrated political journalist, unsung critics of art, sport, media, literature and life or sexually...
In a few days I'll be ready to head to Washington DC for the coming festive and quintessential patriotic holIday. I also look forward to attending SuperNova and meeting many of my fellow friends...