Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
I wasn't going to join the year-end list-making parade of reflections and predictions. We should be reflecting and predicting everyday, right? Why do it now? Then I realized "everyday" includes today, and, yes, I do a list every day - ok, every week - so, it would by hypocritical for ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
I saw so many frozen peas today, I couldn't resist! Thinking of Susan Reynolds, www.twitter.com/susanreynolds, and the Frozen Pea Fund for cancer research. www.frozenpeafund.com.
More in the audio.
Mobile post sent by DougH using Utterz. Replies. mp3
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Here is the pre-Christmas (I'd say pre-holiday but Hanukkah has come and gone) edition of the Social Media Top 5. For the most part, I'm just having fun. Only way to tell if I'm not kidding is by following the links. Sometimes it's a judgment call
First off, this is ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
This what enforce shopping - e.g., Christmas - does to the human condition. A few tricks to having lunch at the mall during December, if you must:
1. Be willing to walk. Park far away, it's much faster than circling for a primo spot. If you don't think you can walk ...
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Saturday, December 15th, 2007
There's nothing wrong with national chains- if the product and service is good, and the company isn't totally evil. However, there is nothing like a local business. Pronizing local establishments really makes you feel a part of the community.
This is Antoine's bakery in Newton, Maschusetts, which opened in 1954.
Mobile post ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
A new round of the Social Media items of interest, fun-poking (not the Facebook kind), and totally made-up stories:
Snow catches Northeast US by surprise, once again for reasons beyond comprehension. New horrors: blogging Social Media nerds (ok, guilty!), including Toe-Twittering in Traffic (say that three times fast).
Who needs a blow-up ...
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Friday, December 14th, 2007
(UPDATE: Comments welcome below of course, but also share your story on the "Awful commute Wiki" established by Bryan Person.)
Yesterday's (12/13/07) snowsotrm in the Boston area was no record breaker, but its timing meant one of the worst homeward commutes in recent memory. Stories about abandoning cars by the ...
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Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
I mean that in the best possible way. Yesterday, Jeremiah Owyang of Forrester Research, in a post about the microblogging service Twitter, invited people to leave their Twitter ID in comments in an attempt to connect as many people as possible.
Boy howdy, did he succeed! More than 300 comments ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
This edition of the Social Media Top 5, a weekly collection of innuendo, falsehoods, fantasy and occasionally interestingly links (no! not links! I mean, original content with supporting notations.. um, yah!), is dedicated to the Society of New Communications Research symposium in Boston this week, and the surrounding social media ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Today's SNCR symposium provided a lot of insights, but this is the place for a personal observation: my table, the 'kiddie table,' served as social media central- Pistachio, David Parmet, Chip Griffin, Sarah Wurrey & I were constantly sending dispatches all day via Twitter, Seesmic, etc. That's how events are ...
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