I learned some things at last year’s SXSW conference. I learned that polite academic approaches to topics doesn’t get much traction. I learned that getting to the point and telling it like it is works better. People might not agree with you (in fact there are so many perspectives at SXSW that you can [...]
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Ok… my voice over is pretty silly on this one, but without it, it was going to be pretty boring to see just a long line of impatient people who were missing the first series of sessions, because they were stuck in line to get their badges. Badges.. we don’t need no stinkin’ badges is [...]
I was in Scottsdale, AZ this week, and as i walked out of the lobby of the hotel, there was this sign. I thought hard about taking a quick detour, and learning all about the latest in tasering techniques. Just didn’t quite make it.
UPDATE: recovery.gov removed its robots.txt file, and opened the site to crawling within three hours of the story. (Government response time gets a +1).
Ok, I’m pretty surprised, but the new Obama administration and “robots.txt” are mentioned in the same article. Given that I work for a digital marketing agency who’s roots are in search engine [...]
I spoke at the AlwaysOn OnMedia Conference at the Ritz-Carlton in NYC this week. I was on a panel called Beyond Behavioral Targeting”, which was a good deal of fun. You can check out a summary by the moderator of the panel here.
Ah… John Stewart. The guy has restored my faith in the news anchor. He and his team actually dig up more meaty stuff than some of the fluff opinion stuff that comes from the network. Check it out:
I was working on an open letter to Seth Godin about why he doesn’t follow anyone on Twitter. I was cruising along, the prose was flowing, and then i did a little digging (thanks Darren Rowse from Problogger) and of course found out that www.twitter.com/SethGodin doesn’t in fact belong to Seth. I know we can’t [...]
I know this is old. But just like they run re-runs of Seinfeld for me to enjoy – I thought every once in a while I might start bringing back to the top one of those great things we’ve all seen over the years. And if you haven’t seen it – well… I hope it [...]
