Archive for the ‘rant’ Category
Friday, November 20th, 2009
BusinessWeek Editorial Layoffs; Just...Sad
Let's pretend that Bloomberg has a master plan for a leaner, stronger, BusinessWeek after buying the troubled magazine recently. They probably do, right? It still boggled the mind to see the parade of high-profile pink slips given out this week: Stephen Baker, Heather Green, Jon Fine, Robert Hof, etc. (the RaceTalk* ...
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Friday, August 28th, 2009
Well, It's official- Social Media is For Narcissists. That's according to a study called The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement produced by San Diego State University and Youth Pulse. As far as I can tell, the study is some sort of knock on Genreation Y being self-centered. ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
First, thanks to Shel Holtz for writing more extensively on this: http://bit.ly/shelsys.
The "PR Is Dead" meme ironically lives quite heartily, but this article by Fuat Kircaali, founder of Sys-Con Media and a new service called Ulitzer, goes straight to the self-parody pile.
While Shel's post fairly outlines the possible benefits ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
How far should a company go to keep its customers? It actually doesn't take very much.
Take Comcast for instance. all they have to do is listen and nip problems before they become big. Comcast's presence on Twitter is already well-known, but I became the latest to benefit from their ...
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Friday, January 2nd, 2009
I promised with heart crossed, swore up and down, and insisted to the edge of embarrassment that I would not do one of those "year end" posts, where I either list my "best blog posts of 2008" (you don't care), make "predictions for 2009" (as if I- or anyone else ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
For PodCamp Boston 3, I was fortunate to be invited to sit on a panel with crayon's Greg Verdino, Morpheus Media's Adam Broitman (pictured below, with me, as a make-good for leaving him out of my "Bald Marketing Bloggers" post), and ooVoo's Philip Robertson, titled "Smart Social Media Marketing. ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Pic is kinda random- from this morning. sorry if you get this twuce via Twitter, I messed up.
Mobile post sent by DougH using Utterz. Replies.
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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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Friday, November 30th, 2007
It's not fair to make fun of the winter Olympics mascots without re-posting my old Summer Olympics mascot post as well. Here is my t ake from February, 2006, when Beijing 2008 unveiled its little monsters. This time, in chronological order from 1968 - 2008:
1968, Mexico City, "The Dove of ...
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Thursday, November 29th, 2007
UPDATE: I'm an angry nerd! Awesome (I think)-- thanks Canoe Dossier! And please see my summary of the Summer Olympics mascots.
Here we go again-- another Olympics mascot is unveiled. This particular trilogy of terror are Miga, Quatchi and Sumi, a "sea bear," a "young sasquatch," and an, um, "animal ...
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