“slow marketing is a focus on human, one-on-one connections” – Evelyn Rodriguez The great thing about technologies like RSS, is their low-committment persistence, their bias for – as Evelyn calls it – ‘slow marketing’. For example, take real estate. It’s a big purchase occurring infrequently. Most of the time, I’m not looking for or buying …
Monthly Archives: September 2006
Photo of Me at PodcastExpo
(Dave, Victor and myself) (Me, Kris Smith, Rick Klau, Eric Olson, and many others at Dinner) Big thanks go out to; Kris Smith – for letting me hang out with him all weekend and running the best session of the conference. Tim Coyne – for some amazing conversation. Dave Slusher – for dropping zen wisdom …
What’s the Future of Media Networks?
PodcastMN.com pulls 70+ podcasts in to a single page using a single script. Is it a network? I hope not. But it does many of the same functions as a media network (ABC, BBC, NBC, etc); aggregate and present a collection of voices with some common collection of attributes. While other functions – distribution, production, …
FCC’s Current Stance on Internet Censorship
This topic came up in a lunch conversation today, and I wanted to confirm I still accurately understood the FCC’s current position: “That being said, the F.C.C. has no jurisdiction over what content an individual broadcasts over the Internet, assuming it is legal.” Looks like the recently ratified Cybercrime Treaty is the closest to internet …
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The Buzzword Blacklist Part 2
Content – we can be more specific like; copy, pictures, conversations, talks, music, performances, etc). Doc Searls makes a good case to blacklist this word in this Giant Zero talk Monetize – under a hunch that this was a made-up word…it’s not. It means ‘to express in the form of currency’. So, it’s not a …
Don’t Visit the Truckstops
Just got off the phone with my dad who recommended not to visit the TA truckstops in Ontario, California. I’m going to heed his suggestion. Though, I’m not sure where that leaves for dinner.
Podcasting: Hot or Cool?
…in the McLuhan sense. “Hot media are high definition (“well filled with data”) and demand a relatively passive audience; cool media are low definition and require intensive audience participation to fill in the blanks. Hot media intensely engage a single sense; cool media loosely engage multiple senses. According to McLuhan, movies and radio are hot …
5 Things That Should Always Be on Mute
Telephones Car Alarms Home Alarms Email and Calendar Applications Websites
Security is Really Customer Service in Disguise
A confused, elderly woman with a full, knotted, plastic shopping bag was in front of the scanner. The security checkpoint line out of Minneapolis stalled as I put all my stuff in multiple bins. When a uniformed TSA person asked her if she had a boarding pass, she mumbled the need for help getting a …
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