I’m pleased to see the ever continuing evolution of PodCamp as a community gathering. It’s amazing to see how people adapt PodCamp to fit what’s appropriate in their communities and local cultures, and I hope we continue to see new innovations. I wanted to clarify something that occurred to me on the drive into the [...]

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Here is a dead simple solution for foreclosed houses: offer these at cut rate auctions to affordable housing developers like CASCAP in Cambridge, MA. These agencies can use the properties, otherwise fated to decay, for affordable housing for the poor and homeless.
Why we won’t embrace this solution:
Few businesses understand the sunk cost fallacy. Banks and [...]

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Jeff Pulver’s hosting Spring VON.x in San Jose the week of March 17. While I can’t make it, if you have any interest in voice or video online, you should.
Top 5 Reasons to go to VON.x

See great speakers give you an idea where things are going for them
Watch a professional conference team put on an [...]

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Joseph Jaffe was kind enough to send me a review copy of his latest book, Join the Conversation. It’s a really, really LONG book, weighing in at 300 pages. I managed to get through it in about two weeks of sporadic reading.
The Good

The book has plenty of case studies and examples of conversational marketing. Everything [...]

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Give people about a month after their subprime mortgage payment balloons to obscene proportions and it’s not hard to guess that in some cases, that will lead to divorce and broken homes. The next big wave of resets begins in March 2008, based on the CSFB data in the chart above.
Buckle your seatbelts and unplug [...]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETQj3a221EQ

The market crashes, turns to ashes that you’re dancing on
while some fat lady cues up for a song.
You just don’t panic, so they said
in all the good books that I have read.
You just lay back and feed your head,
but that ain’t clever, that never got nothing to
sell, hell, oh well, maybe we were
better off dead.
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Valentine’s Day doesn’t rank highly on my list of important days. As CC Chapman said, if you need a holiday to show someone you love that you care, you have serious issues you need to address in your relationship.
Combine that with crass commercialism and an attempt to raid your wallet through your heart by major [...]

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Worth watching, on the housing crisis.

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I’ve got a post on the work blog about beer money, and would LOVE your thoughts and comments on it:
Financial Aid Podcast Community Question: Where do you get your beer money?
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Metcalfe’s Blog
We’ve talked in the past about Metcalfe’s Law, the idea that in a network, every new member of the network not only derives value from the network, but makes the network as a whole more valuable; the classic example cited is the fax machine. Every fax machine sold increases the value of existing fax [...]

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