I get MarketingSherpa’s email newsletter (a standing subscription I’ve had for a long time), and in this brave new world of blogs and the participatory culture, it’s obvious that the obvious isn’t so obvious to those who are educated, degreed, and entrenched in marketing. Anne writes about a band that releases over the internet home…
Monthly Archives: October 2005
Eternal Life by Preventing Cell Death?
The Man Who Would Murder Death: A rogue researcher challenges scientists to reverse human aging A few of Dr. Atala’s PowerPoint slides show human organs that have never been inside a human. The images are at once disturbing and thrilling. Now, if that quote doesn’t draw you in, I don’t know what would. Link via…
The Next Version of Microsoft Office Gets it Right
Say goodbye to menubars and crazy misbehavin’ toolbars. Office 12 has The Ribbon. One of the things they got totally right with it is how it scales to different monitor sizes/resolutions and different window sizes. Microsoft Office 12 Blogs: Jensen Harris: An Office User Interface Blog InfoPath Team Blog Microsoft Excel and Daily Dose of…
Free WordPress Themes Are Back!
An announcement that the free WordPress themes page is back online and awaiting your download.
Beating the Big Box Stores Through Localization
I originally wrote this as a comment on the First Thing Monday blog. I kinda took off with it and wrote a fairly lengthy comment. When I was previewing it, I thought it would make a decent stand-alone post, so I copied what I wrote, posted the comment, and then pasted the comment text here….
Seth Godin Says My Name Sucks
Well, no, not really, he doesn’t. But he uses the name Michael as an example of a name so common that it makes for a poor unique branding/domain proposition. I know everybody on the internet links to Godin. Normally I wouldn’t, preferring to write original material. But he’s made such a good point here, one…
5 Rules of the New Paradigm
In the nineties, venture capitalists and Wall Street displayed what has come to be termed “irrational exuberance.” How naive, everyone said after the internet bubble burst, that we thought the internet was going to change everything. Well, guess what? It did change everything. It’s still changing everything. It’s doing it more slowly than we first…
What the Flock?
Flock looks super-interesting. A browser, based on Firefox, with blogging/flickr-ing/collab tools built-in, and it looks bee-yoooo-ti-ful. This is exciting.
GVOD: Google Video of the Day
GVOD is a side blog of mine. I’ve posted a couple links in this blog to random Google videos, but on the whole, they’re a little off the mark and don’t fit in well with the rest of this blog. Tell your friends and coworkers. Especially your coworkers. These videos are exactly the kind of…
Random Google Video
Scene Sucks Fucking hilarious. Listen for the band names. What’s with the girl’s shirts? This thing is twisted. Cracked me up. I think I might do this on its own blog. This is fun.
