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Saturday, January 15, 2005
Time for podcasting to bust out of Apple's silo 
Heart is where the home was
| | Turns out friends of friends — people we've hung out and partied with — are among the dead in La Conchita. Clan Destino's whole site is now dedicated to the memories of Charlie Womack, the Wallet family (only two out of six survived) and others in this little community by the sea. |
| | There's an overlap between Clan Destino and Burning Man. If we go back far enough, I wouldn't be surprised to find more ovelaps between both and the Mountain Road community that thrived above Santa Barbara before the Coyote Fire wiped most of it out in 1964. There are threads here... good people, high times, great art, sweet community, dangerous places... I dunno. Right now it's just so sad. |
| | Events are planned, and funds are being raised. The first is tomorrow. Details here. |
Outing stealth marketers, for fun (if not profit)
| | Did your friend get a little too enthusiastic in recommending that new product? Did you get her to admit that she's working for a "stealth marketing" company? |
| | Are you signed up for a viral marketing campaign? |
If you don't like the market, go make one of your own
| | ...as media personalization accelerates, and the line between news and commerce blurs further, today's journalists musk ask themselves: What is my role in that disintermediated world? Where do the the principles of journalism fit in? How necessary is the Fourth Estate in civil society when every citizen can create his or her own media? |
| | Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand. (The boldface is his.) |
| | Not far back, Intel chief Andy Grove wrote Only the Paranoid Survive. Not a bad aphorism if you're a giant tech company in a competitive marketplace in which your purpose is to make everybody else utterly dependent on you. |
| | But when journalism becomes the means by which the marketplace informs itself (rather than a business by which one profession delivers information to the marketplace), perhaps only the involved thrive would be a more appropriate expression. |
| | I will trust this honest (though often extremely incomplete) information from a blogger over some marketing mumbo-jumbo from the sales/marketing/PR dept. ANY DAY! |
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