Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

Provacative question: We as consumers have been trained by the music industry to go out and buy a new piece of plastic every few years. Why do we keep buying the same things? The new format is no format. What the consumer would buy is a data file, and you could create whatever you need. […]

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Whew! I have so been out of the blogging loop lately. Polishing the ebook, traveling, planning life post-dayjob… here’s the braindump: AskJeeves Buys Bloglines Podcasting goes through the roof. Google blows my mind with Google Maps (don’t forget Google Video and Suggest too!). Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox on the way (Sunbird hits .2). Rick (the […]

Just pointing over to my post about the current customer relations nightmare on my coach-focused blog. If you’ve ever wanted to witness an internet-spread bonfire in progress, it’s right here.

On the Blogs & Bloggers network over on Ryze, Marla Stout shared with us the delightful Life is Ruff blog of her dog Kegan. I felt I had to share this and trust that Kegan’s charm will be appreciated more widely. Then I found that while I’d been doing other things, the phenomenon of ‘dog […]

Back home now. Andrea’s conference rocked! Much much more in-depth writings in the near future. Note to self: pay the extra day of hotel room so you don’t have to take the red-eye to Chicago and spend all day Monday in bed sleeping.

How do the Keywords in Typepad help? I’ve meticulously entered relevant keywords for my over 200 blog entries, and now I’m wondering if they really help at all? How do you know? How many can I add? When I see what the user sees in the search engine listing itself, it only shows the exact […]

Wow – this is really stupid: Verizon Communications… has been blocking e-mail originating from Great Britain and other parts of Europe for weeks, and customers are upset about having their communications disrupted without notice. Verizon customers who are waiting for an e-mail response from Europe should use alternative forms of communication. “If it’s really important […]

I’m starting to see more of these ‘single-issue’ blogs that I think can really help a blogger become the go-to on a certain topic. It’s got the two ingredients of a hot blog: passionate opinion and a daily news cycle. This blog is devoted to further discussion on residential and commercial real estate prices. Is […]

Why fly when you can read the PowerPoint slides at home! http://www.blogbusinesssummit.com/sessions.htm (I’m kidding folks – I wish I were there!)