I ran across an interesting article on the ClickZ Network by Gary Stein titled “No Blogs Next Year.” In the article, Stein describes his experience at the recent ad:tech panel he chaired earlier this month about advertising with blogs. He asked Phil Kaplan (of F*ckedCompany.com fame) what he thought of the blog phenomenon. Kaplan’s response […]
Archives for November 2005
Happy Thankgiving (for Engineers)
For the first time in many years, we’re not hosting Thanksgiving dinner. I’ll be traveling to my brother-in-law’s home in Fallbrook my fill of turkey, football and family. I know that many of you are engineers (or think an engineer), so I’ll offer help for today’s culinary projects: Michael Chu’s Cooking for Engineers. Chu is […]
Web 2.0 and the future of website design
There has been a lot of buzz around Web 2.0. The idea is that the old Internet companies (ostensibly Web 1.0) were built on a model that did not last. When the dot-com bubble burst in 2000, many of those companies could not adapt or survive. So what is Web 2.0? Tim O’Reilly describes Web […]
SF Food Porn
This week, business took me to our San Francisco office at Oyster Point to share a presentation on practical ways of integrating knowledge management into your daily work process. San Francisco is one of my favorite cities — it’s got a great vibe, it’s easy to walk around and there are incredible cultural opportunities. Since […]
Jake Ludington – Upgrading your Subscribers
Jake Ludington works with Chris Pirillo on Lockergnome and also has his own site, MediaBlab. He has an email newsletter with about 50,000 subscribers, and recently introduced a premium subscription for $30/year. About 1,000 people upgraded to the premium subscription, converting to about $30,000/year that he didn’t have before. Not bad. Before you can even […]
Gratifying Moment of the Day
Sat in on a session on branding led by Chris Pirillo of Lockergnome fame. Chris does some fantastic things on the web, not only with Lockergnome, but also his podcast, his own blog, the e-books, the Gnomedex conference… the list goes on. The most gratifying moment of the morning was introducing myself and exchanging business […]
Phillip Torrone on Podcasting
Torrone came to fame working at Engadget.com producting great how-to’s. He now works at MakeZine.com which is sort of like the old Popular Mechanics but for the modern age. His podcast for Make uses low-end, accessible solutions (just what I’m looking for!). He used to use Skype (which I love) but now uses Gizmo Project […]