I’ve always been a book person. No, I mean a BOOK person. Collector, curator, lover of the dust jacket, size, shape and smell of the printed word on paper. I know how books are paginated, printed, bound, packed, shipped, and how to write a publishing contract. My first career was the general manager of an [...]
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Passion and the Digital Space: A Moment in Time
September 18, 2010
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There are over 133,000,000 blogs actively indexed by Technorati. Each day 900,000 posts are published to those blogs and they are read by 346,000,000 people worldwide. Well, maybe not all of those 900 million posts are read. Those numbers stagger the mind (see source here). But serious blogging is about words, not numbers. Content, not [...]
Read moreWho, What, When, Where, Why
September 22, 2009
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As someone who reads newspapers, printed on paper thank you, I’ve been intently following the downward spiral of this industry over the last several years. I acquired the habit of reading the paper from my father and there was a point in my lifetime when nearly every adult read the daily newspaper. It wasn’t a [...]
Read moreFlickr Photostream Mining
February 20, 2009
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Just this week I’ve had two messages in my flicker mailbox from organizations who have seen photos in my photostream and requested permission to use them for their online publications. One was nowpublic.com, a participatory news network site that bills itself as a platform for citizen journalism. The other was from schmap.com, a publisher of [...]
Read moreParticipation, Power and Social Influence Marketing
March 24, 2008
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So much talk about social media. It can’t be ignored by firms who want to find more effective ways to market. Everywhere pundits are saying that advertising, as we know it, is dead. That social is the next thing. If we create an environment or community where customers can help each other and in the [...]
Read moreKindle Makes Electronic Books A Reality, Without the Web
January 27, 2008
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A colleague of mine who is an avid reader of books (the analog paper kind) is very excited about her new Kindle from Amazon. She was kind enough to bring it in for me to play with over lunch last week; here are my observations. The Kindle is Amazon’s first foray into launching a big [...]
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