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• I missed another 1-on-1 Bike Swap The 1-on-1 Bike Swaps are a great way to celebrate spring and autumn, clean out your garage, and race un-ride-able bikes around a track bordered with empty PBR cans. The May 22 bash was the second one I missed. Gene, Hurl, if you’re listening - add an RSS feed to the 117 blog. Thanks.
• Three Thoughts on Demand Supplying Itself “So what do you do when the deer have guns, You get into the ammunition business.” - Gordon Borrell “Attention tuning will reduce RSS overload but not noise to signal.” - Steve Gillmor “[Real Estate] Sellers and buyers can figure out pricing via Zillow; they can bid via Redfin; they can list via PropertyShark or Craigslist.” -
• Anticipate Customer Needs That was the mantra uncovered with each of the hotel concierge interviews we conducted a couple years back. Anticipating need is an excellent model for the customer relationship. It inherently means that the service provider - account manager, waiter, concierge, project manager - has a deep understanding of their service. Deep enough to know what
• Postel’s Law Asks, What Are You Ignoring Today? There are quite a few memes circling this week I’m actively ignoring. Things where this sentence is exactly the amount of energy I’m giving them. If you also follow Doc Searls, these are snowballs I don’t think deserve pushing. This is where the attention metadata stuff gets mushy. I’m talking about the triangles in the corners
• Digging Out “No one knows you [at Digg.com] so you have to write in a way that is completely void of who you are and what you’re about. That sucks. I’d rather just opt out of the popularity contest…” - Ryan Tomayko There’s value in keeping comments within a small, private, group of people. If only so you