While I’m piles of work away from another podcast, I wanted to share a nice story about the power of podcasting. I received an email earlier this week from someone in the archives of the First Crack Podcast. They said they got a new job thanks in part to our conversation. As they tell it, …
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They Probably Paid Off Their Student Loans Faster, Too
“It turns out that most CEOs of major US companies did not attend Ivy League schools, but rather their local state university or a smaller, less-known college.” – Peter Klein
Amazing Race Season 10 – Episode 1
If having racers rappel up the Great Wall of China on the first leg is any indication, the Amazing Race is on an upswing. The lame events, purposeless pitstops, and music-video editing might be a thing of the past – much like the awful Family Edition. Despite my continual confusion between the cheerleaders and the …
Tags Less For Me and You, More For Us
In working with FeedSeeder, and interesting transformation has happened. I actually see value in tagging text. For video, audio, and pictues – text tagging is a no- brainer. There’s really no better way to get the media categorized than by asking the community to do it. Text for me was a much tougher sell. I …
Out of My Demographic
An open apology to our 13-year old babysitter this evening, We’re a Mac OS X household with Safari as our primary browser. As you noticed, AIMExpress is not supported within Safari. I’m sorry. Though it may not be obvious, Firefox is also available on all the computers in the house. We’ll have it loaded up …
Barrier to Entry
“Nobody’s going to “steal” your ideas, any more than they can steal your cerebrum. You’re the source. Authority over the idea begins with you.” – Doc Searls
The Real Benefit of Subscription-based Revenue Models
Segway on the Fairway, Bring Your Helmet
“Segway Inc. might have inadvertently made golf interesting by increasing the threat of head injury” – Consumerist
Pruning the Beanstalk – Feedreaders Need to Grow With Us
“Odeo will work fine for new subscribers, but as soon as you’ve been subscribed for a few months, it’s impossible to use.” – Michael Mahemoff Michael’s got an excellent point there. If you’ve following my writing, you know I have a similar problem with the 300+ subscriptions in my NetNewsWire (up from 250, up from …
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Success Equals Being Acquired and Losing Control?
Check out this one line in ZDNet’s coverage of TechCrunch’s Arrington web winners/losers list: Winners (got acquired) Now, I don’t know if that’s Arrington’s perspective (I suspect so) or ZDNet’s (also likely), either way the sentiment is disturbing. If this is the mentality of the Valley, then I celebrate every project on the “Very Good …
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