Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
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26 Sep 2005For all you local vloggers, there is a vlogging mini-conference coming up in Worcester, MA.
When: Monday, October 3rd, 6 p.m.
Who: You and your interested friends
What: “Meet the Vloggers” Worcester
Why: To learn more about videoblogging and build community
Directions to WPI: http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/directions.html
Campus map to find the Campus Center:
http://www.wpi.edu/About/Visitors/Images/walkingmap.pdf
(The Campus Center is #6, behind Alumni Gym (#3) and [...]
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25 Jun 2005Look, it’s supposed to be 95F with a nearly matching humidity. In an old house with no air conditioning, you are unlikely to see me near the laptop between now and 9PM tonight.
For all of you folks at Gnomedex…PPPPPHHHHHHTTTTTT!
Back to your regularly scheduled disdain and employment dis-satisfaction.
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20 Jun 2005There will be light blogging for the next couple of days as I fly out to Seattle to meet with some folks at MSN and a training for a new customer.
I will check-in and make some comments when I can.
Talk amongst yourselves.
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1 Jun 2005I came up with the pithy, off-the-cuff remark about Scoble this morning, referring to him as the George Hamilton of Blogging.
Every week, he pops up at the latest hip conference, hanging with all the “right” people, saying all the cool things.
How’s your tan, Robert?
TECHNORATI: Scoble, Microsoft, George Hamilton, blogstar, blogs
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24 May 2005Had lunch with Rick Segal who was in Waltham on business today.
Lunch was good, and we talked for 90 minutes about all things blogging and technology. It was interesting to meet an Microsoft Technical Evangelist from the good old days.
It was a great chance to meet with someone else who has big ideas, and as [...]
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23 May 2005Dr. Blaise Cronin (the name sounds like the nom de plume of an agent provocateur), author of a justly ridiculed and narrow-minded critique of blogging, has re-appeared just in time for the Summer Solstice. [here and here]
This man is an island. And he has lost the perspective that come from spending too much time in [...]
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23 May 2005Lawrence Lessig and Joi Ito. Now Fred Wilson says that he is burning out, re-thinking his online musings. [here]
I guess that my personality won’t see me slow down for another few months. But I have also chosen a very different style of blogging. I am an aggregator and re-interpreter.
I don’t generate a lot of my [...]
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23 May 2005Adrian Trenholm:
Coincidentally, I took a client along to Johnnie Moore and James Cherkoff’s Open Sauce Marketing workshop and one of the things that sticks in my brain was the comment “blogging changes the blogger.”
Wow. Couldn’t have said it better.
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23 May 2005Dave Winer points out that Apple and Google have suddenly stumbled into potential PR/brand issues in the last 24 hours that could easily be resolved in a customer-focused blog. [here]
I have beaten Apple on more than a few occasions on their lack of blogging cred. [here and here and here]
Google’s blog strategy is…well, weak.
Meanwhile Sun [...]
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22 May 2005In 48 hours, we have seen posts from Lawrence Lessig and Joi Ito reminding us that life is about more than blogging, about more than presentations, about more than being on the road 250 days a year.
What have we gotten ourselves into? Two of the most invigorating minds of the digital generation have declared that [...]