Archive for May, 2007

Power and morality, gas and steering

I was talking last night with a good friend about something that popped up in Google Earth. There’s a layer that automatically got added - the crisis in Darfur, all the flashpoints in the conflict, and the topic drifted to - how do you make a difference? Ultimately, how do you effect real, lasting change? [...]

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I Don’t Want to Know Clarence

Clarence Smith Jr. of 42minus71.org and Do You Know Clarence?, was asking recently about his show, Do You Know Clarence? Truth? No, I don’t - but it’s not what you think.
In ninjutsu, a technique you look at today will look different in a year’s time, in a decade’s time, and when you finally retire from [...]

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Jerry Falwell, I’m glad you’re dead

“If you’re not a born-again Christian, you’re a failure as a human being.”
“God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve.”
“I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, [but America's] secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our [...]

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Why MySpace marketing is still relevant

A lot of folks on the cutting edge have already written off MySpace and headed to different online communities. This is perfectly understandable - MySpace has been plagued with spyware, usability issues, and an image problem that Madison Avenue firms would cringe at. The cutting edge has left, and the hip crowd has left for [...]

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Fuel for the engine

In talking with a friend tonight, I posed the question:
“What do you feed your brain with?”
Power comes from within you. True, there’s a lot to be said for things like money and Rolodexes, power lunches, etc. but these are outward symbols of what’s going on inside your mind. The conversation got me to thinking about [...]

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It’s electric

Yesterday we traded in our 2001 Hyundai Elantra for a new blue Prius. Very nice car, lots of goodies. A few things I’ve learned so far:

Coasting generates the most power. Regenerative braking is a bit of a misnomer - as long as the car is moving and you’re not actively accelerating quickly, the car’s generating [...]

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Mental Caffeine

If you haven’t tuned in yet, be sure to check out Marketing Over Coffee, the marketing podcast I do with M Show producer John Wall. It’s a weekly podcast that is a giant audio Twitter - what are we doing in marketing?
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New Media Realty

Two sets of people are selling their houses right now - my parents, and C.C. Chapman’s family. Being the new media nerd I am, it got me thinking - how would we apply the tools of new media to real estate? I was going for a walk tonight with my wife, and we walked by [...]

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Scaling the Clear Walls

Getting out of the fishbowl that Chris Brogan mentions is essential if you want to reach new audiences, no matter what form of media you participate in. The fishbowl is a comfortable place to be, and may even be a refuge for you when you need to recharge, but spend too much time in the [...]

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Virtual Thirst Entry #2

Entered in world 4/30/07.
What is the promise of Second Life? What is its core appeal? A world that’s better than reality, a world that approaches the limits of human imagination, a world where we can create that which we might not necessarily have in first life. I spoke recently with a higher education official at [...]

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