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| Wednesday, August 17, 2005 |
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Doing the math 
| | Which leads me to the Big Topic not many seem to be following here: what's actually useful. Or truly interesting. |
| | What I like to do here is point to, and sometimes help with, interesting conversations around topics that are going somewhere. Or stand a chance of going somewhere. Not drive up my own blog rank, or follow the rankings of others. That stuff may be interesting, but it's also high school. |
| | As for the post count issue... caring about how many millions of posts happen in the world is like caring about how many conversations are happening in the world. The information may be relevant to programmers and sociologists and math majors and RSS search engines (and guys like Kevin, who are important to have around, caring about this stuff), but not to the conversations themselves, or to the people having them. |
| | The real engines of blogging are independent individuals with interesting stuff to say. Is there money in helping those people talk and listen to each other, and move topics along? To helping grow what the sum of us know? And can one make that money helping people without advertising at them? |
| | I think so. I'm also still waiting to see it. |
Revisiting progress
| | Talk about yer' flashbacks. Even though it was in beta for longer than a year, I used Windows 95 as my production system starting when it wasn't even called Windows 95 and the CDs just said "Chicago" on them. I can't count the number of beta related crashes and catastrophes I had. Am I prepared for that again? I guess so. |
Location, location, location
| | A9/Mapquest has/have block views. That last link goes to the corner of 56th and Broadway, where for years we had a nice little apartment. |
| | I'll be back in town, and over in Jersey, for the weekend. Flying all day tomorrow. It's kind of a whirlwind visit centered around this show here. (A9 pix here.) |
About the operating systems marketplace
If so, why?
| | There's much good reading there, about transforming the industry from which I escaped more than ten years ago. Back then PR's business, in spite of its insistences to the contrary, was spin. (Meaning, without the demand for spin, PR wouldn't have been much of a business. For more about that, read here. Scroll down to "Private Relations.") David makes the case for relationship management, which puts PR in a position of far more importance than the paint-job business it used to be (and, in countless cases, still is). |
| | Notably, PR's principles include: relationship, accountablility, disclosure and symmetrical commnication. |
| | Of course, PR has been selling that stuff for a long time. Are companies finally buying it? |
Not quite live bait
| | Just put up another podcast: the first Doc & Dean show, starring Dean Landsman (via Skype) and Yours Truly. It was a dry run for another 'cast, and technically about as flawed as a 'cast can be, at least technically. But my kid laughed at it, which is more than he usually does when I play podcasts in the car. So here's the file. If you want to subscribe, you do it over at the podblog. I think we have that working now. Not sure. |
We await
| | There are imo large seismic tremors ocurring in the publishing capabilities and business models regarding online contextual advertising and Mitch, having some awareness of what we are envisioning here at Qumana, said something like "watch that space". |
| | I'll reiterate that .. watch this space. The marketing and advertising industries are wondering how the ever-shifting online and personal-publishing environments (Web 2.0 ?) will address online advertising, and the debates rage. We are working on some of the core issues outlined in the post outlined by Doc in the links set out at the beginning of this post, and intend to have some (hopefully very) interesting capabilities to show the world in a month or so. |
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