Tis the season to let other people deal with peace on earth and goodwill towards man. I’ll stick to what interests me: conflicts & sarcasm. Counting down the top SEO smackdowns of 2009: #5. Barone v Godin: Brandjacking? The provocation: “Squidoo has built several hundred pages, each one about a major brand. More are on […]
I enjoy reading Seth Godin and Lisa Barone so I found their recent smackdown compelling. For anybody who missed it: Godin launched Brands in Public where he puts up a page for each brand highlighting what’s being said about them on the web. To gain control of your company’s page you can pay Godin $400 […]
This site’s loyal readers (both of you) probably noticed by now that I can be negative sometimes. Actually, you don’t know the half of it, this site is my positive side. Anyway, Seth Godin just tricked me (again) with a post titled The Problem with Positive Thinking. Spoiler alert: His “problem” with it was that […]
First let me admit that I didn’t consider myself a fan of Seth Godin. Maybe not his fault, but I was just annoyed by a bunch of Godin groupies that I felt over-simplified his ideas. Maybe it was all in my mind, but I felt I kept hearing Godin groupies telling me to think outside […]
I’ve really been enjoying Seth Godin’s blog. But boy did he cheat in his post Malcolm is Wrong. “I’ve never written those three words before, but he’s never disagreed with Chris Anderson before, so there you go.” Cute beginning for a post. “Free is the name of Chris’s new book, and it’s going to be […]