Web Performance, Branding, and Social Media
In: advertising| branding| marketing
31 Oct 2008Personal Brand, Reputation, and The Mistake of Closed SourceA video description of why reputation outranks brand every time
In: Immigration
17 Dec 2007Landed in the US on a one-day business trip today. The family is enjoying Christmas with the grandparents in Victoria, BC, and I need to work remotely to cover the time.
I flew into Seattle for a one-day trip, with my brand-new Advanced Parole documents. Figured it would be speedy.
90 minutes later, they let someone who [...]
In: GSM
14 Oct 2007Got my T-Mobile Rizr Z3 unlocked yesterday and it is now running the stock Z3 Software…looks like for Malaysia!
I hated all the extras that came with the T-Mobile Software. Now, I am happy.
In: RANTING
25 Mar 2006Dell:
You just missed on a chance to over-deliver to me.
I got my brand-new Dimension E310 on Monday — ok, it’s Samantha’s computer and it has been sitting in a box all week because I have been in San Francisco.
I get home, fire it up, throw in the wireless card and works like a charm.
Except for [...]
In: Life
2 Mar 2006Today, I re-named this blog. The Newest Industry had reached the end of a very long and satisfying road. It was time to “re-brand”.
But the content will remain remarkable unchanged!
Sort of like the real world.
Technorati Tags: crazycanuck, crazy canuck, re-branding
In: GTD| Notebook Lust
16 Jun 2005At my last job, I moved desks a lot. Not because I was being shuffled from department to department, but because the company was in a constant state of flux, expanding with the Internet Bubble 1.0, and then collapsing on itself.
I often found interesting things when I took up residence at my new desk. Once, [...]
In: smp
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 [...]
A Brand is not a Conversation
In: Commentary| advertising| authority| branding| reputation
12 Jan 2009Brand and Branding are tossed about as sterile concepts that people want to dissect on a repeated basis, as if a deeper understanding of the words themselves will allow a view into the soul of a people.
When I step back and examine these concepts, free of involvement in the world of Brand creation and propagandization, [...]