Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo
My response to Steve Ivy’s post Open Source, Product Design, and DiSo.
You touch on the branding concepts being a part of the DiSo-verse, and at that same time, I’d argue that if you create (or worse) require any element of the process to have a certain design (the profile pages) then you are going to create resistance.
On my blog, http://boldlygoing.com, I’ve painstakingly over written the default style capabilities of the MyBlogLog, BlogCatalog and BumpZEE! widgets. Why? Because it was more important to me that their functionality fit into the overall site design.
Profile pages may be somewhat different, however I’d [...] Continue Reading…
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Message to Tony Mase of Constructive Science
Following is a copy of the comment I left today on Tony Mase’s marketing blog promoting the writings of a turn of the (19th) century self help guru, Wallace D. Wattles. You can find Tony’s site at ConstructiveScience.com. I fully recommend him as a purveyor of Wattles publications as they can be hard to find.
Tony, being a blogger, reading, posting and commenting every day, I have to say how ashamed I am for you and your usage of blogging as a promotional tool for your Wattles’ products. Yes, I am absolutely a supporter of using the technology in marketing [...] Continue Reading…
Customer service should transform to self service
What the hell was I thinking? I live in Cottonwood. The only two places to get office chairs?
Wal-mart: 2 chairs way over priced no adjustable features
OfficeMax: a bunch of chairs, only one that I would have wanted. Was willing to pay the $179 to get something of relative quality and feature set. I take the ticket to the register. Dude goes to get chair. Stops to talk to chick walking in the store. Stops to help another customer. Finally, 6 minutes later brings up chair in box on dolly. Box literally looks like it had been dropped off the [...] Continue Reading…
Howard and Lindsay are a riot!
My apologies for being a supporting cast member in the echo chamber, but viral dissemination is a part of the coming age of all things Open Social, Web 2.0, yadda yadda yadda.
Good thing I have a wireless keyboard, cause I am typing this post while finding myself on the floor after having LMAO (not literally, however. I still have plenty of “A”, so don’t cry for me, okay!?!)
[via Howard Lindzon]
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[via Lindsay Campbell]
Twittering the Dog!
Now, I’m not saying definitively that the question asked during the press conference was definitely mine, however, when Robert Scoble sent out a request for questions on Twitter I responded to him pretty quickly. As did a number of others.
I guess my question actually did get asked! Technology is sooo cooool!
(follow up)Looks like Znet is getting in on the conversation. Coolness.(/follow up)
Mashable.com ponders on leaking of American Gangster
Kristin over at Mashable.com writes on Denzel Washington Film Leaked: Whose Fault is it This Time?
My question would be just how many people will actually end up viewing this “leaked” film prior to (or after) the release of the film in the theatres? My guess is not nearly enough to make a single dent in the box office gross.
Another relatively “educated” guess is that the people that do end up seeing the leaked film are NOT people that would spend a dime to see the theatre version. And if that (risky) assumption is true (lets just agree for now [...] Continue Reading…
Wendy’s growing her blog network
You should definitely read eMoms at home founder, Wendy Piersall’s “What have I learned in 6 weeks of running a mini blog network” if you have ANY desires whatsoever of growing your blog into something larger than a singularly focused collection of posts.
Why do I recommend this to you? My friend and former business partner, Joseph Cizek and I had hoped when we launched this site at the beginning of 2007 to immediately be able to have our own mini blog network focusing on 8 areas we had decided were core, necessary “attributes” that would allow for one to [...] Continue Reading…
View from Verde Santa Fe Driving Range
Still learning how to use the new Samsung NV7. It does SOOOO much! But like my golf game, I just have to continue to work on one small thing at a time. Master each element and then move on.
And I definitely hit the ball very nicely today (well, about 85% of them, anyways!)
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