HA! And they said it wouldn't last... start... last... whatever! The shower's at SXSW! Hope the bride shows!
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February 26, 2006
Quote Night: The God Father
Courtesy of imbd.com.
I begin with my favorite: "In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns."
Shall we review some more? Let's do!!
Jack Woltz: ...She was the greatest piece of ass I've ever had, and I've had 'em all over the world. And then Johnny Fontane comes along with his olive oil voice and guinea charm, and she runs off. She threw it all away just to make me look ridiculous! And a man in my position can't afford to be made to look ridiculous!
Tom Hagen: Now we have the unions, we have the gambling; and they're the best things to have. But narcotics is a thing of the future. And if we don't get a piece of that action, we risk everything we have. I mean not now, but, ah, ten years from now.
[Tessio brings in Luca Brasi's bulletproof vest, delivered with a fish inside]
Sonny: What the hell is this?
Clemenza: It's a Sicilian message. It means Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes.
Michael: [while eating diner with Sollozzo and McCluskey] What I want - what's most important to me - is that I have a guarantee: No more attempts on my father's life.
Sollozzo: What guarantees could I give you, Mike? I am the hunted one! I missed my chance. You think too much of me, kid - I'm not that clever. All I want, is a truce.
Michael: Fredo - you're my older brother, and I love you. But don't ever take sides with anyone against the Family again. Ever.
Emilio Barzini: [during a meeting with the Five Families] Times have changed. It's not like the Old Days, when we can do anything we want. A refusal is not the act of a friend. If Don Corleone had all the judges, and the politicians in New York, then he must share them, or let us others use them. He must let us draw the water from the well. Certainly he can present a bill for such services; after all... we are not Communists.
Don Corleone: What have I ever done to make you treat me so disrespectfully? If you'd come to me in friendship, then this scum that ruined your daughter would be suffering this very day. And if by chance an honest man like yourself should make enemies, then they would become my enemies. And then they would fear you.
Tom Hagen: Mr. Corleone never asks a second favor once he's refused the first, understood?
Sollozzo: I don't like violence, Tom. I'm a businessman; blood is a big expense.
Michael: My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
Kay Adams: What was that?
Michael: Luca Brasi, held a gun to his head, and my father assured him, that either his brain or his signature would be on the contract.
Don Corleone: I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room; and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today.
[to his associate, who has killed Paulie in the car]
Clemenza: Leave the gun.
[pause]
Clemenza: Take the cannolis.
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master of his domain OR are you shaking yet?
From the land of RSS, OMPL, and WTF?
Hey I just linked to Amazon, I've been doing that lately, just a little, as I've relaxed a bit about patents. I've come to appreciate that this isn't a very kind world to creative people, lots of nasty people try to take anything that isn't locked up and nailed down. When patents are used to protect creativity, I guess they have a place. Not happy about that. I still don't support, in any way, the predatory way Amazon has used patents to take ideas out of the commons for themselves. It's the same way I feel about companies hijacking open formats, trying to take control of other people's creativity, without even offering to pay for it. Geez talk about greed. That's why it's cool that Dave Sifry respected my request to get out of the awkward place he found himself. There are other companies that haven't yet responded, and I'm not going to pull any punches if they don't get out the place they don't belong. No one is the Boss Man of the stuff I gave away.
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A Change is Gonna Come
"If corporations underwrote externally-produced [[sites]] and were careful to preserve site independence, the resulting sites could be far more credible attractors than are most current corporate web pages. This sort of enlightened patronage first appeared in the Renaissance when the Medici banking family supported artists like Botticelli, Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci. Strangely perhaps, it could work again today, financially rewarding quality site producers and enabling companies to better connect with nascent web micromarkets."
-- (C) 2001, Gonzo Marketing, Christopher Locke, AKA: RageBoy
This most recent quote from Gonzo Marketing is one I've used on my new disclaimer-sort-of page, now linked off my sidebar.
It should answer any questions you may have about who I'm working with online and how I view those relationships as they relate to my writing and this blog. Although I don't say in the disclaimer that I love these folks more than Thai food (i was trying to keep it sort of authoritative sounding, so i left food analogies out of it), the truth is that I do--except for Thai Coconut Noodle Soup at Mamasans in Rochester, NY, but nothing beats that.
These people-organized-as-businesses that I have met and come to work with online are amazing. Passionate, smart, fast, inspired, and most importantly, funny as hell.
Fitting those precise qualities I am proud to tell you about my newest relationship with the folks at Qumana, who've stepped up as our SASW corporate sponsor--JEEEEAAAAAH BOY!!!! That means we get to go to SXSW and pay the health insurance premiums that keep little Jenna in Albuterol vials for the nebby. Can I hear a w00t!
The best part of this new relationship is that it's with clued people who understand that what I write here is what I write here. My complete independence is content-wise is as important to them as it is to me. And you. And I'm not just saying that. Jon Husband of Wirearchy is massively clued. He and I have been corresponding for many months on Qumana, what I like, what I see that could help me be more productive, creative, fast.
In other words, this is no new thing, as you see I've been posting using Qumana -- which makes it a heck of a lot easier to blog, and can I just say has the ONLY blog-related spell checker I've come across so far that knows that "blog" is a WORD. Not to mention, you can turn on the little doohicky (which, in comparison, is not a word) that underlines in red as you type so you don't need to spell check when you're done writing a post. You see your own illiteracy as you type! I know all of my grammatically-obsessed readers will appreciate that. Let's face it--I move right along here and don't take much time to, uh, check my work.
NOW add on Qumana's tagging abilities and you've got something very cool. That's what I first couldn't live without. Believe it or not, I never understood how all these people were doing tags, and I never wanted to put the effort in to find out, because people writing about tags were talking about "taxonomies" and such. ew. But with Qumana I started tagging a month or two ago, and now I'm seeing what other interesting things I can do with tags. ;-)
The bottom line is this: I get to continue helping Qumana by continuing to understand and communicating what writers-cum-bloggers need most to erase the boundaries between "think" and "publish." I'll continue to write about technology that makes blogging easier, better. I say "continue" because nothing has really changing as far as what I do here. What has changed is that I can now tell you there are real, live Gonzofied folks out there who GET how valuable it is to support us in doing what we do here. Qumana is walking the talk. And you all should know--it's the right time to start looking for companies who share your passion to invest in what you're doing too.
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February 25, 2006
Bush, Torture, and One Expert's Opinion
From Elaine of Kalilily as posted on Blog Sisters:
One of the great things about the net is that, if you can't get a mainstream medium to publish something, you can always post it.
A college chum of mine, a former CIA polygraph specialist who served in Vietnam, has tried to get the following Op-Ed piece accepted by several newspapers. They wouldn't even accept it as a "letter to the editor." I had intended to post it on my weblog, but the server's been down for several days. Besides, it occurred to me that posting it here might help to get it circulated. Please feel free to use it in your own blogs.
FYI, this former CIA lie detector, John F. Sullivan, is the author of Of Spies and Lies: A CIA Lie Detector Remembers Vietnam. He has another book ready for publishing that was held up by CIA censors. Here's his thus-far unpublished Op-Ed essay:
Bush and Torture
by John F. Sullivan, former CIA polygraphy interrogator in Vietnam.
During Mr. Bush’s press conference on January 19, one of the correspondents asked the president to clarify his position on torture. “Americans don’t torture,” summed up his response. I don’t know if Mr. Bush was suggesting that Americans didn’t torture in the past, weren’t currently engaging in acts of torture, or wouldn’t engage in such acts in the future, but I do know that during my five years in the U.S. Army and 31 years as a polygraph examiner/interrogator with the CIA, I became aware that Americans did torture
Torture and prisoner abuse have been a part of every war in which America has engaged, at least in my lifetime, but was never a sanctioned policy. Torture has been to the U.S. Government, and police agencies which use it, analogous to what sexual misconduct on the part of Catholic priests has been to the Catholic Church: publicly denied, privately acknowledged, and occasionally tacitly approved. That changed with 9/11.
Vice President Cheney’s suggestion that in response to 9/11 we may have to go to the “dark side” of intelligence in our fight against terrorism, the administration’s declaring al Qaeda and other terrorists as enemy combatants, not POWs, in order to deny them protection under the Geneva Convention, and the Department of Justice’s memorandum of August 2002, which redefined torture, made it clear that “the gloves were off” and that in the pursuit of terrorists, “anything goes.” Torture went from being a “dirty little secret” to a condoned policy.
Of the aforementioned, the most insidious was the Department of Justice’s August 2002 memorandum which defined a coercive technique as torture, “…only when it induced pain equivalent to what a person experiencing death or organ failure might suffer.” This is an obscenity.
How does one determine when an individual being “coerced” has reached the point of being tortured – by the decibel level of the victim’s screams? I assume the person making that decision is the interrogator. If so, what training has he or she had in making such assessments? I would hope that no doctor would ever participate in such an exercise and contend that any doctor, who would, not only violates his Hippocratic Oath but is also right down there with the infamous Dr. Mengele.
In analyzing Mr. Bush’s “Americans don’t torture,” statement, I conclude that he based his statement on the DOJ’s definition of torture and that those pictured in the Abu Ghraib photos didn’t meet his criteria for torture. I would like to think that Mr. Bush does not share Rush Limbaugh’s view that what happened at Abu Ghraib was nothing more than a fraternity prank, but am concerned that many Americans might agree with Limbaugh.
My first reaction to those pictures was rage – rage at the sheer sadism depicted; rage at the stupidity of those who allowed the torture, rage at the lack of cultural awareness, and lastly, rage over the fact that those pictures were going to cost American GIs their lives.
The Abu Ghraib pictures make a great recruiting poster for al Qaeda, and I posit that more Muslims were recruited for the Jihad as a result of those pictures than GIs were saved as a result of information coming from torture victims.
It seems logical to me that an al Qaeda/terrorist fighting in Iraq, who saw those pictures, might be more motivated as well as more inclined to fight harder so as not to get captured. Do the battle cries “Remember the Alamo,” “Remember the Maine,” or “Remember 9/11” ring any bells? How about “Remember Abu Ghraib?”
What are the implications of those pictures for any American GIs who might get captured? Can anyone imagine the reaction in America if similar pictures of American GIs were coming out of Iraq? Were that the case, I don’t think our military would have to worry about recruitment shortfalls for as long as the war on terror is waged.
Senator McCain, in commenting on his ordeal in North Vietnam and in referring to his torturers, noted that one of the things that sustained him and his fellow POWs was their belief that, “We are better than this.” The Abu Ghraib photos seem to indicate that we are not better than we were back then.
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It would be great if you could mention -- or even reprint -- this essay in your own blogs.
Done, E.
Posted by Elaine to Blog Sisters at 2/25/2006 04:37:00 PM
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The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow.
Well just stop treating Dave like a famous object, okay? He's a lot of things.
"It was a rougher week on the net than you could see on the mail lists. I'm getting pushed around again, that's the bad news. The good news is that a bunch of people wanted to get a flamefest going with me as the guest of honor, and it didn't take root. Even so, I have reached a new level of exhaustion, and that's not a good thing. In some conversations, I've tried, to no avail, to explain that I am a real person, not an object, and I'm just asking to be treated as you would treat anyone else. But I'm also an A-lister, and a celebrity, and being treated like an object comes with the territory. But I'm also a blogger, and I'm sorry, I just doing go for the regal treatment. Anyway, maybe next week will be better. I sure hope so."
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February 24, 2006
More Gonzo Marketing Read Along
"...Like any market, micromarkets are relational affairs. They do not exist independent of their observers in quite the same way as shoes and ships and sealing wax. This may seem an abstruse philosophical point, but it has critical ramifications for business, so pay close attention here. People in the microaudiences coalescing around micromedia do not think of themselves as micromarkets. They think of themselves as people.
This is perhaps the greatest shift in the balance of power between companies and what they have viewed until now as consumers--people whose only function was to buy products. The net has helped human beings rediscover other, and often more interesting, uses for their humanity. Because of this shift in perspective--which has caused online markets to radically realign priorities and allegiences--business needs to be especially wary of using old broadcast terminology as if it still applied in familiar ways. 'It looks like a medium, so it must be like television.' Or 'I see a lot of eyeballs out there, so it must be a branding opportunity.' Just because some words sound the same doesn't mean they describe the same realities."
(C) 2001, Gonzo Marketing, Christopher Locke AKA RageBoy
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Chris Locke on Blogs in 2001
"Individually, their audiences will be much smaller than those of today's mass-market broadcast channels, but taken together, the total audience will be much larger. Within a few years [[ED. NOTE: That'd be now]], many thousands of quality news, entertainment and information sources will spring up on the Internet to serve highly specific communities of interest. These micromedia sites will constitute an increasingly important vector for electronic commerce, serving as possible points of entry into a huge collection of web micromarkets...."
(C) 2001, Gonzo Marketing, Christopher Locke AKA RageBoy
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Tom on...
Points of Blight. I just had dinner with two of them. Single moms in their 40s. The Class Formerly Known as "Middle." Lights/heat off. Mortgage not paid. No health insurance on mom. Kids on Medicaid. Getting $2.00 of gas a time. Groups of moms fixing meals on different nights to avoid the grocery store. more bounced checks. title pawn. can't pay back. lame paycheck eaten up in bounced-check fees. car repairs. work til 3 a.m. again. bronchitis. get sicker. No $ for drs appt. call uncle MD to get RX. bounce check to get meds. divorce not done--2 yrs and counting.
sweet jesus, my kid's teacher works from 6 - 3 and then goes to her night job from 6-12.
rob peter, pay paul,
hope to god.
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February 23, 2006
Five Years After
"...I talk about gonzo marketing of and with micromarkets. As used in this book, micromarkets are not hashed-browned or refried databases. Neither are they individuals, so-called "markets of one."
Instead they are genuinely social social groupings. Little ones perhaps at first, but they're collections of people, communities joined by shared interest. And (this part is probably important too) they're groups you actually belong to, that you interact with--not by punching buttons and entering your zip code, but by exposing something real about who you are."
(C) 2001, Gonzo Marketing, Christopher Locke AKA RageBoy
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I believed it then I still believe it
It's time for some review lessons. If not for you, then for me. This is what I believed in 2001; I do more now than ever:
...The Internet is entirely different. It's not an opportunity for viral marketing. We are a virus and we want to multiply. We are the audience. We are the market. We are in it and of it. This is not just our "positioning," it's our position. And we won't recant or renege or back down. Where would we go? What else is there? This is market advocacy. This is gonzo marketing. You don't have to be nuts, but it helps to have been there. Because when you get personal with so may people, you begin to get stretched, to blur at the edges. You don't define your product--you discover who you are.
(C) 2001, Gonzo Marketing, Christopher Locke AKA RageBoy
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Tag Poetry 2 - Gripped
terrible waking
settling gray clouds on my eye lids
still asleep
the nightmare
is the mind stirring.
god don't let morning come heavy
come poison come furious with
terror to bully me
toward daylight
morning panic
is always the worst.
what's wrong
is impossible to name,
wonder how to
full-stop, start again
without dread clawing
at my stomach
with loss wrapped
in soiled scratchy paper towels
I use after the bile comes.
amazing that I could hide it
so long,
cloak agony
in good works, shy smiles
at odds with
my own mask
the one you made
me wear.
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Mashup Tags + OS
Great Minds Tag Alike.
Josh Teeters has an excellent post on Tagging in an OS and it’s wonderful uses. I can’t believe I haven’t thought of that. It’s a brilliant idea.
I haven’t really wanted a feature in an OS for a long while, but I really want this. Instead of digging through folders going “where the hell did I put that report”, I want to be able to click “word documents”, “+reports”, “+sociology”, and open the file I had in mind.
Second Opinion: ALLIED
(I want mine in a tag cloud.)
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February 22, 2006
quotable notes
Steven, a young web wiz, has just celebrated his bar mitzvah. He received a dozen gifts and must write a dozen thank-you notes. Being webbish, he creates an on-line “Thank-You Note Generator.” Steven shows the site to his friends, who show it to their friends, and soon the site is getting traffic from recipients of all sorts of gifts, not just bar mitzvah stuff.
If Steven created the site with CGI and Perl and used tables for layout, this is the story of a boy who made a website for his own amusement, perhaps gaining social points in the process. He might even contribute to a SXSW Interactive panel.
But if Steven used AJAX and Ruby on Rails, Yahoo will pay millions and Tim O’Reilly will beg him to keynote.
--FROM - http://www.alistapart.com/articles/web3point0
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You Must, You Must...
You must have a listen to this. OH MY!! I don't have a heart to tell the old bugger.
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Bug or Power Law?
Why does my new Technorati "faves' posts" sidebar widget keep showing recent posts for Ken Camp and Stowe Boyd (HI GUYS!), when folks like Sheila Lennon and Will have updated more recently?
Now I love this idea, IF it's not just going to become a mini-me of technorati's top 500 replicated across our blogs in this lil box. I hope it's going to be quite the opposite. Only semi-optimistic on that.
My understanding is that the new widget will act like a fast moving faves roll, with the most recent posts of your selected reading list showing up in the widget. On mine, that's not happening. What gives? Is there a bias against folks who don't have face icons on t'rati? Is it some kind of bug? Power Law reflection? Wha?
wood s lot updated yesterday, not 760 days ago like it says on my faves roll. Did I do something wrong? Does wood need a face?
I added 37 folks, purposely not focusing on my daily bread (and i mean brread), and purposely adding many others who I sometimes forget to read that I SHOULD be reading every day. I want them to appear in my little box based on the newness of their posts. Faces or not. Popular or not.
kay? thx.
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February 21, 2006
George on The Change and The Change Back
payola anyone?
The results of that particular 'house cleaning' resulted in a lot of independent labels getting their products on the charts. The playing field was made level for indies that didn't have the deep corporate ahem, um, 'connections' the majors had so there were a bunch of new acts as well as name acts [no longer the sweetheart of a major] on indy labels that got through the door and received some airplay. [I'm inviting any music industry folks out there to kindly correct me about any of this stuff like payola].
more.
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how busy am i?
I currently looked down and noticed 22 open MSWord docs on my desktop. Nearing the point of implosion. Send help if I fail to return. You will find me in source code. I loved you all. Please remember.
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Extreme Blog Makeover
Is there one blog you visit that you wish had gotten a face lift, like, a year ago? One that loads with a Quicktime error every time a non Macizen visits? One you're happier to read in Bloglines because it looks better in white? One that's various shades and hues make Joho's color palette look good?
For me that blog is Kevin Marks' Epeus' Epigone. I nominate Kevin's template for some kind of CSS extreme makeover. Kevin, consider this an intervention. I love to read you. You are one of my friends. Only a friend can say this to a friend: It's time to make a change. I can't bear the greens anymore.
Designers.....GO!
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i love this family
Jenna and I had the privilege of meeting AKMA and Margaret when they were in Atlanta. I love this family so much. They are who they seem. And that is a big deal. A very big deal, both online and off, especially in this place, one that is being overrun by mask wearers. Vulnerable, beautiful.
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driving miss crazy
i was heading the wrong way up 41 yesterday with my babygirl in the backseat, the second time i've gone north in two weeks when i meant to be driving south.
last week i had my standing wednesday-night appointment, and I decided to run an errand on the way, but i ran into a problem when I got on I-575 at a particular entrance ramp i wasn't so used to. it wasn't until i was a good 20 miles north, when a view of the mountains jolted me like rap on the alarm clock at 6, that i snapped to and realized i had been heading north instead of south.
i mean i was past Canton, supposed to be in Dunwoody. Whoa.
Same thing yesterday, except on 41, and what made me turn wrong this time is that I stopped to get some cheese dip from the mexican restaurant near the Y where jenna and I had been swimming. If you know one thing about me it's that i get turned around really easily. So apparently when i turned out of the parking lot i mistook which way was 'home' and again went north instead of south. this time i realized it after about 10 minutes and said, "Jenna, do you recognize any of this stuff?"
She said, "Oh no, we're lost." she hates being lost. I told her no i just went the wrong way, and that's the second time mommy did that in a week--mommy's just nutty sometimes isn't she.
uturn.
the thing that got me this time was that after i headed the wrong way i passed by a parking lot at a funeral home where there was an obvious wake in progress, and i sing-sanged myself into the midst of it--doesn't take long--feeling what they were feeling, or not really, which is what the Tag Poetry below came from.
Because in passing by, i noticed two men standing near their cars talking, and one of them slapped the other on the back and i was passing by just long enough to see them laugh and glance the exchange--animated, positive.
so that got me thinking about death and someone inside the home dead, for sure, wondering who is that dead person. i think a woman is inside, older, these parking-lot men are her sons or grandsons or nephews, and i imagine them without her, i always do. i think how i have to pause and take a breath, someone else's dying knocks the wind out of me, i think what is that sound--oh that's the sound of someone not here anymore, that's the hum of absence, that is the space between 'is' and 'isn't' - if i could i would build an entire world in that eternal silence and i would name it Loss.
and that is about the time i realized i was headed north, not south.
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February 20, 2006
Mykipedia
Now this I understand! Shelley gives the Once-and-Future-King version of the History and State of RSS. Wow! It's exciting!
two years ago tomorrow
i first posted about flickr.
two days later - stewart in eweek. "Rather than focusing on making connections, as in many social-networking sites, or simply on real-time communication, Flickr embraces the idea of instant media sharing, Ludicorp President Stewart Butterfield said. Its initial focus: real-time photo sharing and collaboration."
I said: I'll tell you though, getting image bombed in the middle of a conversation just tickles me to pieces. A way to pass the time for the radically ADD. I can only imagine getting funk bombed or hip-hop bombed.
Anyone remember the flickering flickr chat? Me: You'll also find the rapidly flickering flickr flickering thing when you launch the group chat sessions in flickr. More than one flicker-er
has dubbed it the seizure-inducing startup thingy.
Stewart in eweek: "The point is to allow people to communicate and collaborate and to experiment in real time," said Butterfield, who dubs Flickr, "Groupware for play."
So I guess now flickr could be called photo hosting for grownups?
Technorati Tags: flickr, photos, photo+sharing, web2.0
two days later - stewart in eweek. "Rather than focusing on making connections, as in many social-networking sites, or simply on real-time communication, Flickr embraces the idea of instant media sharing, Ludicorp President Stewart Butterfield said. Its initial focus: real-time photo sharing and collaboration."
I said: I'll tell you though, getting image bombed in the middle of a conversation just tickles me to pieces. A way to pass the time for the radically ADD. I can only imagine getting funk bombed or hip-hop bombed.
Anyone remember the flickering flickr chat? Me: You'll also find the rapidly flickering flickr flickering thing when you launch the group chat sessions in flickr. More than one flicker-er
has dubbed it the seizure-inducing startup thingy.
Stewart in eweek: "The point is to allow people to communicate and collaborate and to experiment in real time," said Butterfield, who dubs Flickr, "Groupware for play."
So I guess now flickr could be called photo hosting for grownups?
Technorati Tags: flickr, photos, photo+sharing, web2.0
February 19, 2006
wow--i never really envisioned this.
it has to really suck to be a bulldog bitch on the rag -- in spider man boxers especially.
Tags: bitches+in+heat
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doc's camera
Did I mention that I want to come back as Doc's pool boy in my next life? Because he has the coolest pool i have ever seen. That marks the 3,302nd time I've said or thought that.
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The Counter Recruitment Movement
I'm surprised -- maybe more suprised that I'm surprised -- that there's an intensive, targeted recruitment effort at working class and poor schools to grab kids up into the armed services -- even to the degree of recruiters going door to door. And--ALL PART OF NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND? It just gets worse and worse. Watch it.
And the pendulum swings...
At PR Squared, Shift Communications' Todd Defren talks about the agony and esctacy of firing clients who drive your good people to drink--or worse, leave!--in a good economy. The good times are definitely here again when the war to retain talented employees (and get new ones) shifts into high gear.
Ahh I harken back to another era--remember the signing bonuses? Remember the car leases? Mmmmm.
BUT I DIGRESS...
What I really wanted to say is that Todd is right -- good PR and marcomm people will leave before they'll be stuck on the same account forever with an abusive prick of a client. Yes everyone can be difficult some of the time, but we're talking about the clients who LIVE to beat their "vendors" -- and that's what they'll call you. Plantation owners in a former life. Mean-spirited punks in the current one.
Most agencies say they value their employees, but few have the balls (or balance sheet) to let go of abusive clients. They'll do the usual--change out team members (usually by "selling" the account internally as being tough but rewarding, and by making the person who begged off look like a whimp).
The difficult thing for an agency is that rather than being seen as a partner in the client's business, the agency is often put in the scapegoat role. Your client keeps his or her job by blaming the account team and agency when things could have gone better (even if the client contact has been unreachable and unresponsive for four weeks, never mind drunk when you do finally reach them by cell in the evenings...).
On the other hand, when things go right, you're supposed to hope your client realizes and communicate that you had a hand in it. That PR success is always a byproduct of a well-founded strategy, flawlessly executed tactics, and most importantly: incredibly good timing.
If Todd fired you and you're not an asshole of a client, email me. ;-)
kaneva's usin' tags...
Nice use of tags by kaneva. And doesn't this demonstrate without a doubt that commedy, beer and funny football is where we should be focused right now?
Good interview with Chris Klaus, Kaneva head and former Internet Security Systems founder, who's a smart one indeed.
play on.
February 18, 2006
an open letter to flickr
Dear flickr,
You may remember me. i have been on your service since before it decided just to be a photo sharing site.
In fact i think i was probably like in the first dozen or two users of your alpha-beta soup, when clicking on the "flickr" button meant you were launching a chat with other folks online and you had your little gutter area at the bottom of the screen where your pix lived and you could drag and drop them into chats and scare people with pictures of stewart's dogs.
member?
and don't get me wrong because stewart and caterina are two of my favorite netizens i've never met, plus they are/were Canadian and i seem to be doing really well with the Canadians this year so i sure am not meaning any disrespect to them personally, BUT:
you can't write community guidelines like this -- maybe you thought you could because now you're part of a BigCo -- but oh dear someone should have told you this!
no no no. you can use humor to poke fun at yourself, but not to chastise your 'community' members--very very bad move. a public relations no-no.
dear flickr--stewart where were you when they sent this out, on a beach someplace? (maybe you have a diff job now i haven't been keeping up as well as i should.)
For example, you can never talk like this:
If you do we'll make your photostream private and remind you of this Guideline. If you don't heed our warning and continue to make similar content public, we'll terminate your account without warning. This applies to your Buddy Icon as well.
When you were small it was cute -- sort of -- to have an attitude. now you are yahoo and it doesn't fly to boss us around and talk about termination after you have built a business model on trust with mostly artists and people who care about pix.
AND i'll terminate your fucking buddy icon, buddy. that's what we say when a service that lured us into uploading ten million photos (okay, lured DOC into uploading 10,000,000 photos) decides to make lots of rules and talk about terminating you if you break one.
you don't do that shit online.
if you do it, you don't say it that way.
dear flickr, can we go back to alpha and look at funny stewart's-dog pictures and nose-picking pictures and pig-penis pictures? (BTW does that pig-penis pic constitute as the "genitalia" you refer to in the guidelines? i'm not sure as you didn't say anything about farm animals...)
Remember we laughed about those pix just 2 yrs ago--guess what flickr, and now you grew up and it's not funny? still is funny to me.
Guess what flickr, most of my stuff on your service isn't my own or well it's pieced together because most of it was uploaded 1,000 years ago when the service was in beta then re-upped.
I would be honored if you would terminate me.
and before I go, one other thing you never say to your Valued Users is "report you to authorities" -- that is a sticky area for you I would think - and I am thinking reading this thinking that you hired an intern to write these guidelines or that perhaps you have lost your fucking minds.
don't talk about my behavior and conduct - what am i like a 9-yr-old and you're my baby sitter, flickr?
now i will say, though I heart stewart and caterina, i am now helping bubbleshare spread the photo-sharing love. so you can think i'm biased, but i really don't think so because i was on flickr before most people were on, and i think flickr does different things than the BS I heart, like for one we make fun of ourselves, not the people who use BS, and number 2 we don't use words like "authorities" and "conduct" and "genitalia." At least i haven't. At least not outside of casual skype calls w/ other bloggers. ha ha.
We don't want these parameters to be a downer and we want everyone to have a good time. If you don't feel that you can abide by our Community Guidelines as outlined above, maybe Flickr isn't for you. Plainly speaking, if you don't want to abide by our TOS and these Guidelines, don't let the door hit you on your way out!
flickr that's just not funny.
terminate me.
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jenna's president's day confusion
Jenna got out of the tub this morning, where she thinks the best, and it went like this:
"Mommy, did the president shoot someone?"
"No, that was the vice president."
"You mean Jimmy Carter?"
"No, no he was president a long time ago."
"You mean George Bush?"
"No, he's President. I mean Dick Cheney, he's Vice President, like runner up."
"Did Dick Cheney shoot Jimmy Carter?"
"No, no. Jimmy Carter was President and he's fine. He shot his hunting buddy. They were bird hunting."
"Oh, who was his hunting buddy?"
"Just a man, an older man--pretty old, close to 80."
"Is he okay."
"Sort of--he's in the hospital."
"Well I'm glad Jimmy Carter's okay."
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"Mommy, did the president shoot someone?"
"No, that was the vice president."
"You mean Jimmy Carter?"
"No, no he was president a long time ago."
"You mean George Bush?"
"No, he's President. I mean Dick Cheney, he's Vice President, like runner up."
"Did Dick Cheney shoot Jimmy Carter?"
"No, no. Jimmy Carter was President and he's fine. He shot his hunting buddy. They were bird hunting."
"Oh, who was his hunting buddy?"
"Just a man, an older man--pretty old, close to 80."
"Is he okay."
"Sort of--he's in the hospital."
"Well I'm glad Jimmy Carter's okay."
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tags not folders on the desktop
i was thinking today how i'm still double clicking folders to see what's in them, and how a tag cloud would be an easier way to get at what's in my desktop, and maybe i assign diff colors to diff types of data, but essentially i would like to tag the docs and apps on my desktop. can i do that?
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February 17, 2006
laptop skins?
i have lots of visual ideas right before i go unconscious from sleep. these days that happens what, oh, every two minutes?
so i was recently (like ten minutes ago) in this state, wake-dreaming about a meeting with a bunch of us from some team or other at a client's office, and whatever great idea we had, i forget what it was, we had skinned on our laptop lids.
This kind of neoprene skin slipped over the edges of the top of our laptop screens, and it had a logo i didn't recognize in my sleep-dreamness at the bottom of the skin, with this bold orange and white design (bubbleshare anyone?) and then some slogan in black in the middle, so that when all four? five? (don't quite remember) opened the lids of our laptops in the meeting, they all looked uniform, displaying this quirky message. Then I looked down at my face down blackberry and you know what? same skin. WHOA.
Some people dream about waterfalls.
What about the real estate on the lid of a laptop? Probably too awkward and expensive to bother with--or maybe there are already customizable skins out there?
Me? I think I'm going to go fashion a "for lease" skin now and slip it on my Acer. Right after my nap. ;-)
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so i was recently (like ten minutes ago) in this state, wake-dreaming about a meeting with a bunch of us from some team or other at a client's office, and whatever great idea we had, i forget what it was, we had skinned on our laptop lids.
This kind of neoprene skin slipped over the edges of the top of our laptop screens, and it had a logo i didn't recognize in my sleep-dreamness at the bottom of the skin, with this bold orange and white design (bubbleshare anyone?) and then some slogan in black in the middle, so that when all four? five? (don't quite remember) opened the lids of our laptops in the meeting, they all looked uniform, displaying this quirky message. Then I looked down at my face down blackberry and you know what? same skin. WHOA.
Some people dream about waterfalls.
What about the real estate on the lid of a laptop? Probably too awkward and expensive to bother with--or maybe there are already customizable skins out there?
Me? I think I'm going to go fashion a "for lease" skin now and slip it on my Acer. Right after my nap. ;-)
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February 16, 2006
LIFO
let me be the first to say Good Morning fellow time-zonians. hopefully i was also the last to feed you words last night.
if i were dr phil and you were a woman i might say: Today is yours; put your phears in check and take what's due you. take everyone else's stuff too.
if i were oprah i might say: every morning is grace, especially when you have my money, and you have to be open to the grace of the universe to make this kind of money, so may your today be all about open grace. integrity. universe. grace. open. grateful. journal. woman. integrity. deeds. grace.
if i were tom cruise i might say: HAAAAA! TODAY!!! MY DAY!!!! WHHOOOOO!!!
if i were al pachino i might say: morning, yes. it's when the sun peels itself from sleep and smacks the moon hello. morning. morning, kid, doesn't come easy. not for the moon or sun. not for the winos in the gutter. not for the hookers slapping their pay in the hands of their johns. no. morning. morning doesn't come easy.
if i were ellen i might say: isn't the best thing about morning finding those little sleep pellets in your eyes? isn't that like--whoo who visited my eyelids in the middle of the night and gave me little fairy birthstones? I mean mine, i like to save mine, have em in a jar actually, which you know doesn't go over so well with guests, i mean i guess that's because i keep the jar in the guest bathroom, well, and I guess because it's not really a jar anymore, it's kind of bigger than a jar, okay I've been doing this since I was seven, so, okay it's actually more of a tin i keep them in--a charlie's chip tin to be...well, it's not like I'm selling them or anything i just started saving my eye sand one day and one thing led to the next....
but i'm me, so, go have a redonkulously good day!!!
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if i were dr phil and you were a woman i might say: Today is yours; put your phears in check and take what's due you. take everyone else's stuff too.
if i were oprah i might say: every morning is grace, especially when you have my money, and you have to be open to the grace of the universe to make this kind of money, so may your today be all about open grace. integrity. universe. grace. open. grateful. journal. woman. integrity. deeds. grace.
if i were tom cruise i might say: HAAAAA! TODAY!!! MY DAY!!!! WHHOOOOO!!!
if i were al pachino i might say: morning, yes. it's when the sun peels itself from sleep and smacks the moon hello. morning. morning, kid, doesn't come easy. not for the moon or sun. not for the winos in the gutter. not for the hookers slapping their pay in the hands of their johns. no. morning. morning doesn't come easy.
if i were ellen i might say: isn't the best thing about morning finding those little sleep pellets in your eyes? isn't that like--whoo who visited my eyelids in the middle of the night and gave me little fairy birthstones? I mean mine, i like to save mine, have em in a jar actually, which you know doesn't go over so well with guests, i mean i guess that's because i keep the jar in the guest bathroom, well, and I guess because it's not really a jar anymore, it's kind of bigger than a jar, okay I've been doing this since I was seven, so, okay it's actually more of a tin i keep them in--a charlie's chip tin to be...well, it's not like I'm selling them or anything i just started saving my eye sand one day and one thing led to the next....
but i'm me, so, go have a redonkulously good day!!!
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And by the way, why cheney et al didn't release to the media sooner?
Dudes, he was tanked:
Lie. Only reason he brought it up was that someone saw him drink at lunch, so he had to cover that base. He's had DUIs, he still drinks, he was impaired.
Wonder why it took so long to find out about the story--damage control and verification of who saw him drinking.
Ambulance too crowded to go with the best friend you shot? How about your breath would have given it away.
The white house is run by two active alcoholics whose all-or-nothing thinking is stinking up the entire world.
Ambulance too crowded? Right, Dick.
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Cheney said he had one beer at lunch, but that no alcohol was consumed during the late afternoon outing.
Lie. Only reason he brought it up was that someone saw him drink at lunch, so he had to cover that base. He's had DUIs, he still drinks, he was impaired.
Wonder why it took so long to find out about the story--damage control and verification of who saw him drinking.
Ambulance too crowded to go with the best friend you shot? How about your breath would have given it away.
The white house is run by two active alcoholics whose all-or-nothing thinking is stinking up the entire world.
Ambulance too crowded? Right, Dick.
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Tooth.0
Waited for two hours in the dentist chair today to be sure my very back tooth doesn't need a root canal before i do the crown on the one in front of it that has just about cracked unto pieces. i don't know. the whole dental experience wipes me out. i didn't even get hurt there today, but it wiped me out and I just fell asleep when i got home into dreams where I was weeping and somebody had died but I'm not sure who. I have lots of dreams about people dying and I'm sobbing and clinging and it feeeeeeeels very real, and in the dream I know who it is, but when i wake up my own alertness protects me--i lose who i lost.
that and I'm behind on 203 things I simply must do, which includes taking the time to pay bills et al. where are the home apps with web 2.0--where's my "foldr" that folds the laundry and puts it away for me, or "Cookr" that boils the water and sprinkles in the angle hair noodles? Where's "Covr" that makes the beds? I know there's rumba and I want one--that's the little suck-em-up that runs around your house vacumming right? SEE? that's one home 2.0 app that makes it easier for web 2.0 people to keep their lives 2.0 together.
Having offline clients too--those whose business is in tech but whose web presence doesn't matter as much (yes, there are still companies who make stuff that we don't yammer on about here--puts me in a schizophreniconsultative headspace which turns me into a headcase or an edgecase or whatever.
okay, so that's where I've been. More soon.
If you haven't taken ANY KIND OF BUBBLESQUE RELATED PICS YET, please get thee to the contest and win thee some goods. February 20th is right around the corner -- or should I say cornr.
much love.
your blogstriss.
Technorati Tags: dentist, bubbleshare, web2.0, blogging, M2M, rumba
that and I'm behind on 203 things I simply must do, which includes taking the time to pay bills et al. where are the home apps with web 2.0--where's my "foldr" that folds the laundry and puts it away for me, or "Cookr" that boils the water and sprinkles in the angle hair noodles? Where's "Covr" that makes the beds? I know there's rumba and I want one--that's the little suck-em-up that runs around your house vacumming right? SEE? that's one home 2.0 app that makes it easier for web 2.0 people to keep their lives 2.0 together.
Having offline clients too--those whose business is in tech but whose web presence doesn't matter as much (yes, there are still companies who make stuff that we don't yammer on about here--puts me in a schizophreniconsultative headspace which turns me into a headcase or an edgecase or whatever.
okay, so that's where I've been. More soon.
If you haven't taken ANY KIND OF BUBBLESQUE RELATED PICS YET, please get thee to the contest and win thee some goods. February 20th is right around the corner -- or should I say cornr.
much love.
your blogstriss.
Technorati Tags: dentist, bubbleshare, web2.0, blogging, M2M, rumba
February 14, 2006
Where's the best place to start TMA Alpha?
Okay--there are a few of us who really want to start this centralized analyst wiki/collaboration thing to bring whatever we can find (and begin to create NEW non-$3K-reports) to the net.
I was looking at jotspot, because i know how to use it, but that seems too internal for this effort. We want ya'll to be able to easily access it as we grow our body of findings (oooo!). A blog won't work--the end result isn't chronological in nature. Where can you easily write together, like 10 people or so (with the ability to scale in a wikipedia like fashion), that has an easy user interface and easy admin, that could either be a hosted solution or else hell I'll pay $10 a month to host it somewhere.
i dunno what the business model is. but i know I've had two good ideas in a week and damn i have other jobs. I'd love to build a voiki (maybe we'll have a voiki subsection of the TMA site), and the analyst disintermediation project has legs. These things I know.
or as they say in my neighboring state: That dog DO hunt!
TMA is the working name of the group/site. Stands for.... oh you can guess.
Technorati Tags: analyst, idc, gartner, forrester, TMA, wiki, voiki
I was looking at jotspot, because i know how to use it, but that seems too internal for this effort. We want ya'll to be able to easily access it as we grow our body of findings (oooo!). A blog won't work--the end result isn't chronological in nature. Where can you easily write together, like 10 people or so (with the ability to scale in a wikipedia like fashion), that has an easy user interface and easy admin, that could either be a hosted solution or else hell I'll pay $10 a month to host it somewhere.
i dunno what the business model is. but i know I've had two good ideas in a week and damn i have other jobs. I'd love to build a voiki (maybe we'll have a voiki subsection of the TMA site), and the analyst disintermediation project has legs. These things I know.
or as they say in my neighboring state: That dog DO hunt!
TMA is the working name of the group/site. Stands for.... oh you can guess.
Technorati Tags: analyst, idc, gartner, forrester, TMA, wiki, voiki
love this shooting dick post
Let's just get it all straight -- the tough questions are over at jehng bangkok's:
Right on.
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I thought Dick Cheney was in a mfn coma then I read the news about him shooting someone in the face? IN THE FACE! Who in their right mind goes mfn hunting when theres real things to take care of like a trade deficit? It seems like Mr Chaney would rather be out shooting people in the face than sitting behind a desk at the white house. When will this insanity stop? How is Dick going to justify his actions?
"Uh yeah uh uh uh *studder studder* *drool* I’m so uh uh duh sorry for uh shooting you in your umm face *drool* it was an *drool* accident uh uh I was uh aiming for uh that unicorn *drool* *studder* *shake* *shake*”
You can’t even really blame Dick , you’ve gotta blame the people that actually put the shot gun in his hand because you know with the claws he’s got theres no way he could open any door or cabnet.
Right on.
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And All I Wanted to Do...
Was see the "Cluetrain: Seven Years After" panel and get my book signed.
Now apparently every one knows we're coming.
SEE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES TO THE RIGHT....
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Now apparently every one knows we're coming.
SEE SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES TO THE RIGHT....
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February 13, 2006
Damn technology...
Our fourth podcast--now known as the lost sessum session--answered all of the questions you ever wanted to ask, including Jeneane's take on what's missing toolwise from the internet music scene and how it parallels the tools that have developed for the written word online. And George's take on everything important. Damn. When I went to post it, Audblog just flaked. Didn't do anything. Nobody home. I was hoping by some miracle it would show up. Of course, nada.
I'll call the Gman later. When his blood pressure goes down. ;-)
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I'll call the Gman later. When his blood pressure goes down. ;-)
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I want an audio wiki = i want voiki!
So if you heard the audblog post below, you know that I've found an old tool I used to use that I somehow thought was swooped into Google's acquisition of Blogger (because I used audblog before google acquired blogger), and I logged in with my old phone number and remembered the pin. THERE IT WAS. All my old info.
The surprise? I've somehow accumulated 65,500+ available audio posts. I've paid for them, hell I could still be paying for them. The service was only $3 a month back in the day. I don't know--does that mean I've been paying for like 120 years, or does it only seem that way?
Anyway, what I'd LIKE to do is give you all the number and let whoever wants to audblog post away here on allied with your own audio posts. The problem is, that would mean giving each and every one of you the login phone number and pin, which in turn would be giving each and every one of you the ability to knock me off of my own account forever.
Did I used to think anyone would do such a thing? Used to be they wouldn't have.
Can I think of folks who are already lining up to snatch away my admin rights? Oh yeah.
SO, what I need, Audblog People at Listen Labs, is a way to let people post to my blog of choice (this one or one I create) while keeping MY admin rights password protected. Let me set up the posting privileges of others. Help us start audio wikis and discussion boards with this technology. FUCK broadcast-model podcasting. Let's get in one place and talk about shit, one at a time, OR, call a buddy or two and record.
Audblog could do this. But who the hell are they now, and would they bother?
Please?
I have 65,500 posts available to share.
Give me a way.
[EDIT: I bought the voiki.net domain. now what?]
Technorati Tags: audblog, listen labs, podcasting, audio wiki, voiki, google, blogger
The surprise? I've somehow accumulated 65,500+ available audio posts. I've paid for them, hell I could still be paying for them. The service was only $3 a month back in the day. I don't know--does that mean I've been paying for like 120 years, or does it only seem that way?
Anyway, what I'd LIKE to do is give you all the number and let whoever wants to audblog post away here on allied with your own audio posts. The problem is, that would mean giving each and every one of you the login phone number and pin, which in turn would be giving each and every one of you the ability to knock me off of my own account forever.
Did I used to think anyone would do such a thing? Used to be they wouldn't have.
Can I think of folks who are already lining up to snatch away my admin rights? Oh yeah.
SO, what I need, Audblog People at Listen Labs, is a way to let people post to my blog of choice (this one or one I create) while keeping MY admin rights password protected. Let me set up the posting privileges of others. Help us start audio wikis and discussion boards with this technology. FUCK broadcast-model podcasting. Let's get in one place and talk about shit, one at a time, OR, call a buddy or two and record.
Audblog could do this. But who the hell are they now, and would they bother?
Please?
I have 65,500 posts available to share.
Give me a way.
[EDIT: I bought the voiki.net domain. now what?]
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Anybody Seen Any Tag Spam Yet?
Have to imagine it's close if it's not here yet.
Buy my penis enlargement pills HERE today.
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Buy my penis enlargement pills HERE today.
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It's the Tools, Stupid.
I could spend the next two weeks getting into this discussion and why I think it's the right discussion heading in the wrong direction, attempting to poke holes in many of the folks who long ago embraced their own Swiss Cheesedness.
So, instead of aggravating you and raising my own blood pressure talking about cheese and power laws, I made my comment over at Shelley's place.
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So, instead of aggravating you and raising my own blood pressure talking about cheese and power laws, I made my comment over at Shelley's place.
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February 12, 2006
analyzing the analysts
There's been some great discussion on the idea of taking the keys from the big analyst houses who hold their research tight (and charge on both ends) . With good reason, traditional analyst offerings are another of the old-school approaches that have been made vulnerable by the Web.
As more independent new media pros and smallcos are doing the jobs that used to take place INSIDE the enterprise, we find ourselves wishing for some of the tools we had access to while inside the firewalls of the borg. It's really tough for us indies to get to the data we need, especially at the thousand-plus dollar hit we're expected to pay to download a research paper we might use a few times.
I've had some emails from folks asking, aren't we free to use what's already out there from firms like Gartner, Forrester, IDC, etc.? First of all, they don't release the most current, relevant stuff--it's not in keeping their business model because they charge a premium for the most current/relevant findings.
I learned from my old dealings that you're not allowed to cite anything unless you get permission. What I remember the case to be in the 1990s was that you could only cite research of a firm like Gartner if you were a client. Of course we'd get our hands on reports--always with the caveat, "we're not supposed to have this. don't leave it on a bus."
Looking at the policies of some BigAnalysts -- like Forrester's citation policy, Gartner's Copyright and Quote Policy (including the information on "quote bans" being imposed on violators), and IDC's Terms of Use you'll see that the language is pretty strong:
FROM IDC: (Hint: if you've ever used an IDC stat in your powerpoint without getting written permission, you're a violator)
I would love to be involved in bringing a wikipedia-like analyst unfirm site -- what David Weinberger called an "Open Source Gartner" --onto the net, not because of the long-standing debate over analyst integrity, but because it's a natural evolution of what I need to do my job in a new way.
I AM suggesting that the big analyst business model is all wrong for the net, and that their client base -- or their NEEDS base, we who need the information -- is changing. More and more of us are OUT HERE. And when you add us up, someone among us will have some part of the information that, all combined, equals everything the analysts have and more.
David also notes that Information Week's cover story is on the integrity of big analyst cos -- I'm off to go read that now. But again, I'm not suggesting the undoing of the analyst firms--I'd rather see them make some moves to change their business models in such a way that allows them to more freely share the vast stockpile of information they house.
In the mean time, let's at least start getting what we can together in a centralized, accessible, updatable, collaborative place... No?
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....
As more independent new media pros and smallcos are doing the jobs that used to take place INSIDE the enterprise, we find ourselves wishing for some of the tools we had access to while inside the firewalls of the borg. It's really tough for us indies to get to the data we need, especially at the thousand-plus dollar hit we're expected to pay to download a research paper we might use a few times.
I've had some emails from folks asking, aren't we free to use what's already out there from firms like Gartner, Forrester, IDC, etc.? First of all, they don't release the most current, relevant stuff--it's not in keeping their business model because they charge a premium for the most current/relevant findings.
I learned from my old dealings that you're not allowed to cite anything unless you get permission. What I remember the case to be in the 1990s was that you could only cite research of a firm like Gartner if you were a client. Of course we'd get our hands on reports--always with the caveat, "we're not supposed to have this. don't leave it on a bus."
Looking at the policies of some BigAnalysts -- like Forrester's citation policy, Gartner's Copyright and Quote Policy (including the information on "quote bans" being imposed on violators), and IDC's Terms of Use you'll see that the language is pretty strong:
FROM IDC: (Hint: if you've ever used an IDC stat in your powerpoint without getting written permission, you're a violator)
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I would love to be involved in bringing a wikipedia-like analyst unfirm site -- what David Weinberger called an "Open Source Gartner" --onto the net, not because of the long-standing debate over analyst integrity, but because it's a natural evolution of what I need to do my job in a new way.
I AM suggesting that the big analyst business model is all wrong for the net, and that their client base -- or their NEEDS base, we who need the information -- is changing. More and more of us are OUT HERE. And when you add us up, someone among us will have some part of the information that, all combined, equals everything the analysts have and more.
David also notes that Information Week's cover story is on the integrity of big analyst cos -- I'm off to go read that now. But again, I'm not suggesting the undoing of the analyst firms--I'd rather see them make some moves to change their business models in such a way that allows them to more freely share the vast stockpile of information they house.
In the mean time, let's at least start getting what we can together in a centralized, accessible, updatable, collaborative place... No?
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i hate being tagged...
But i like Josh Hallett, who designed this cool looking blog, which you'll never see if you're an aggregator junkie, so I'll do my best to tell my fours:
Four Jobs I've Had
- Door Greeter at K-Mart
- Parts Picker at International Harvester
- Senior E-Business Writer for Ketchum
- Tech writer on Kodak's id badging system that ran credentials for the Barcelona Olympic Games
Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over
- The Red Violin
- Cheaper By the Dozen 2 (and cry every time. not okay.)
- Caveman's Valentine
- Glengarry Glen Ross
Four TV Shows I Love to Watch
- Raven
- American Idol
- Judge Hatchett
- The Weather Channel
Four Places I've Been on Vacation
- FDR resort, Runaway Bay, Jamaica
- Rochester, New York
- Toronto, Ontario Canada
- Pensacola Beach, Florida
Four Favorite Dishes
- Mamasans Vegetarian Coconut Noodle Soup
- Schallers burger on a hard roll, through the garden
- Country Sweet hot wings (sweet, hot, juicy--oh!)
- Pizza at the Pontillos in Batavia, NY
- Mine
- BoingBoing
- Bloglines
- Technorati
Four Places I'd Rather Be
SEE ALL VACATION SPOTS ABOVE
Four Bloggers I'm Tagging
- Frank Paynter
- Gary Turner
- Andrea Roceal James
- Elaine
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