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 Tuesday, March 11, 2003
started 3/13/2003; 6:04:12 AM - last post 3/14/2003; 11:08:37 AM
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Doc Searls - Tuesday, March 11, 2003 
3/13/2003; 10:04:12 AM (reads: 6642, responses: 11)
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The Road to Oz 
Blogflocking in Toronto tonight
| | I'll shoot to be there between 5:30 and 6. We (whoever we are) can take it from there. |
Fantosmic
Talk about persistence
Klings's Korollaries
| | Arnold lists Five Clues for Geeks: |
| | - Intermediaries add value
- Property is not evil
- Computer animation is not a killer application
- Bashing Microsoft does not make you smart
- Markets are not exploitative
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| | Lots to talk about there. |
A question
| | So I've been talking to some companies here in Toronto, and a question has comed up for which I don't have a ready answer: |
| | Specifically, what companies maintain corporate blogs, either as home pages or as main features of their Web sites? I'm not in the best position to check, but maybe ya'll can help a little. It would be a good list to come up with in any case (if there isn't one already). |
| | [Later...] Some answers have been coming in: |
| | Jupiter Research, which links every analyst's weblog (there are eleven) from the home page. (Or do they? Now I can't seem to find the page with all those links. I just had it... hmm.) Jupiter also hosts ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies, a conference held in Boston this June. Dave, David and other leading local bloggers will speak there. (How about more links in the brochure pages, hmm?) |
| | Immunexa, which hasn't had a post since last November. |
| | Still a pretty short list. Brings up Cluetrain thoughts about corporate voice and all that. |
| | Possibly related: A speech from a couple years back. |
Other good news
| | When I got back to my hotel room last night, the bellman had just deliverd my missing bag. It had been retained by Canadian Customs and delivered, oddly, by Fedex. |
| | And the laptop has only crashed once this morning. I still miss the days when I could open a shell, run an uptime command and see that it's been going for weeks without a reboot. But the way things have been going lately, ten minutes is a miracle I can put to good use. |
Happy Birthday, Mom!
| | Lots of people have issues with their mothers. I'm not one of them. When I woke up a few minutes ago, the first song in my mind was Paul Simon's Loves me Like a Rock. The second was Greg Brown's Cheapest Kind, which I heard once on A Prairie Home Companion. The chorus has stuck in my mind ever since: |
| | But the love, the love, the love
It was not the cheapest kind
It was rich as, rich as rich as, rich as
Any you could ever find |
| | Mom has always been, and contintues to be, the richest source of love I have ever known. She's a human pipeline, running straight from God. |
| | She's also smart as a whip, funny as a tickle and uncomplicated as a bowling ball. Her laugh can lift the darkest spirit. |
| | As a kid she was so smart they put her ahead one grade. Friends called her "The Walking Dictionary." A couple years ago she heard me mention Google, and said "A Googol is an infinitely large number." That wasn't exactly right (it's a one followed by a hundred zeroes), but close enough. When my sister and I were kids she taught school (mostly third grade) in Maywood, New Jersey, our home town. She started teaching when she was eighteen in a one-room schoolhouse in North Dakota. Between those years she lived an adventurous life. Met my father (another adventurer) in Alaska during World War II. |
| | We'll be throwing her a big party in North Carolina in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to be there. |
| | [Later...] Mom just told me on the phone that she wasn't put ahead a grade, but rather put in first grade at age five. "My mother couldn't stand having me at home any more. I was too smart. But so were a bunch of other kids." Her best friend, Agatha, was one of those kids. They're still in touch. Mom has always called Agatha by her nickname, which is (no kidding) "Boogie." |
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Art Metcalf - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
3/13/2003; 11:03:16 AM (reads: 555, responses: 0)
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I recently read a story in the Reader's Digest™ by Emeril Lagasse. His tale is about the love of his mother and the inspiration she provided for him. Here's to many more "Happy Birthdays" to your mother!
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lou josephs - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
3/13/2003; 1:58:43 PM (reads: 1053, responses: 6)
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Not all the many companies blog:
Groove is one that comes to mind.
Bricklin does but his view aren't really those of the company.
Macromedia does
SBS TV and BNN radio do in the Netherlands
Thats the short list.
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Frank Patrick - Re: Companies that blog
3/13/2003; 5:15:18 PM (reads: 576, responses: 0)
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I maintain two blogs. The primary one is a "company blog," for my Focused Performance consulltancy, and consists primarily of links and commentary on issues of strategic planning, project management, and operational problem solving. After focusing a lot of my writing efforts for a couple years on a series of professional society newsletter columns I rediscovered blogging in September, 2002 as a way of putting my rants and ramblings out in the public. I also maintain a smaller, more occasional personal blog, the name of which -- Unfocused -- probably says as much about the "focused" aspect of my work as it does about my other interests.
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Roland Tanglao - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
3/13/2003; 5:32:12 PM (reads: 666, responses: 2)
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Not exactly what you're looking for, but it might be worth mentioning Ted Shelton: http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/
I tried to answer the very same question for another journalist friend a couple of years ago. Best we could come up with back then was a link to Ed Vielmetti who was working to license the Blogger and/or Radio technology for use across the entire Cisco intranet.
Unfortunately, Ed got downsized just as he was getting into this thing, so I don't know if the project survived.
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gtb - Re: companies that blog
3/13/2003; 7:39:40 PM (reads: 736, responses: 1)
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Hi Doc,
We blog too -- http://www.intelliware.ca. And we're in Toronto :-}
If you have any time -- you are more than welcome to drop in for a visit!
Regards,
Greg
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gtb - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
3/13/2003; 7:41:15 PM (reads: 804, responses: 0)
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Hi Doc,
We blog too -- http://www.intelliware.ca. And we're in Toronto :-}
If you have any time -- you are more than welcome to drop in for a visit!
Regards,
Greg
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Bill Dobie - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
3/14/2003; 12:50:24 AM (reads: 741, responses: 0)
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Hi there, we have a corporate blog on our home site...we're still getting our feet wet with what and when to post...but we're working on it - customer response has been very positive. We're thinking of using it to outline new features, ideas with respect to service and support and details of where our staff are travelling.
Our company site is at -
http://www.navarik.com
http://www.navarik.com/home/news/index.php
We have three internal blogs for corporate news, sales, and general product ideas (before they go into anything formal for a spec process.). An old friend of mine from univeristy who helps us with writing and communications has moved us in this direction - Derek Miller - and his blog is at http://www.penmachine.com
Several of our staff have personal blogs too - Mine is http://wfdobie.sisyphean.org , my business partners have blogs at http://www.hitchen.ca and http://www.martinertl.ca - and a few of our staff have blogs at http://blog.sisyphean.org/ , http://www.randyromero.com/ , http://www.muellerk.blogspot.com/
The systems we build as a company also contain webmail components. These messages are posted directly to voyage files (we build marine software) and increasingly we are building blog like interfaces that show all the messages for our customers in a blog like list that can be sorted and queried - pull rather than push. Some are getting comfortoable with the idea of elminating email. This is very popular. One larger customer (http://www.petrocanadacw.com) is actually moving to a point where email from vendors that is related to a specific voyage is being discontinued and instead vendors are updating the voyage file directly with notes that are presented in a blog/message view. In the future we hope to also have some data (such as ETA's) available as RSS so our customers customers can subscribe to faster updates and use the information in their own applications.
Best Regards / Bill
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Christopher Baldrey - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
3/14/2003; 3:50:44 AM (reads: 573, responses: 0)
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Haven't you American's figured it out yet? English speaking Canadians, and we are the majority here, pronounce about the same friggin' way you do!
We learn to speak like Y'ALL more than we'd like to admit. Your TV shows are much better than ours. Too bad we can't say the same about your beer ;P
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Tom Murphy - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003
3/14/2003; 8:37:09 AM (reads: 748, responses: 0)
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David Williams - Re: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 [[blogging companies]]
3/14/2003; 3:08:37 PM (reads: 628, responses: 0)
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