5 minutes after the scheduled start time I looked out into the crowd and saw about 20 people and thought “Oh great.” But when I looked up twenty minutes later it was Standing Room Only. I’m told 450 people attended. Nice. Lunch was great, wireless was up and down, crowd was good, speakers were very […]
“Prices will rise, politicians will philander, you too will get old, and when you do you’ll fantasize that when you were young prices were reasonable, politicians were noble and children respected their elders.” – Wear Sunscreen, Baz Luhrmann “Human beings seem to take a morose pleasure from believing that once there was a Golden Age, some lost Eden or […]
Give Business Insider credit on their coverage of Demand Media. They’ve published insightful analyses, ranging from highly critical to extremely bullish. The best by far was Suite101 CEO Peter Berger’s Hater’s Don’t Understand Demand Media which provided useful insights into the model Demand and Suite101 employ. [Disclosure: Like Berger, I work at a company (Answers.com) […]
Last week I read Malcolm Gladwell’s essay The Talent Myth, saw Joseph and His Technicolor Dreamcoat (again), and pondered the Biblical Joseph vs Judah story that climaxes in this week’s Torah reading. Start with Gladwell. He has fun with articles that celebrated Enron’s talent culture, for example lauding how managers were encouraged to poach each […]
It always feels strange to buy a hard copy of a book about something that’s changing rapidly, but Vanessa Fox‘s Marketing in the Age of Google was worth it. Vanessa’s book’s value lies in: Case studies of what works and what doesn’t Descriptions of tools and tactics Insight into how Googlers view various issues and challenges Presentation […]
The Pet Wiki has been doing very nicely over the last couple of months. It’s been really nice to see the growth. I like the way the site looks, but I think that it’s time that we go through a bit of a redesign. I think the site works well in general, but the homepage […]
Even though he generally vilifies conservatives and lionizes liberals, I like Aaron Sorkin’s movies and TV shows. Though he and Ayn Rand are ideologically polar-opposites, Sorkin comes closer than anyone else today at living up to her definition of romanticism: “Romanticism is the conceptual school of art. It deals, not with the random trivia of the day, but […]
My friend RivkA died on Friday. She was only 44 years old. She died of cancer. A lot of people die of cancer, but what was really special about RivkA is about how she lived with cancer. [youtube]tgHsZ_kEVuA[/youtube] RivkA had a very interesting way of dealing with her illness. She would set up chemotherapy dates […]
I am in the process of creating a website for the JSPCA. To do that, after researching a bunch of different options, I decided to go with Drupal. Drupal is a very powerful tool for creating CMSs (Content Management Systems) and there are a ton of existing modules you can add to it to get […]
Marissa Mayer led the user interface and web servers teams when she joined Google in 1999. Her titles have changed through the years, and have included Director of Consumer Products and finally Vice President of Search Products and User Experience; but essentially from 1999 through last week Marissa was responsible for product direction and decisions […]