July 2013
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Getting kicks at 66
A year ago I entered the final demographic. So far, so good. @Deanland texted earlier, asking if I had a new affinity with WFAN, the New Yawk sports station that radiates at 660 on what used to be the AM “dial.” Back when range mattered, WFAN was still called WNBC, and its status as a… Continue reading
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2013_07_29 Link Pile
Marketing (public notes toward a piece I’ll be putting up in Linux Journal… also a podcast) The agency holding company model is dead — welcome to the ‘marketing stack‘. By Jon Ebbert in Ad Exchanger. This INSANE Graphic Shows How Ludicrously Complicated Social Media Marketing Is Now. By Charlie Menato in Business Insider. Folks Halley’s… Continue reading
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The Gospel According to ZZ Top
In mass this morning only two words the priest said during the homily stuck in my mind: it’s alright. Because they called ZZ Top to mind. Specifically, the song Legs. It begins, She’s got legs. She knows how to use them. Then the boys sing a bunch of other stuff over this repetitive throbbing riff that sounds like it’s… Continue reading
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2013_07_28 Link Pile
World going to hell Edward Snowden’s not the story. The fate of the internet is. “The press has lost the plot over the Snowden revelations. The fact is that the net is finished as a global network and that US firms’ cloud services cannot be trusted.” By John Naughton in The Guardian. The NSA Is… Continue reading
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A good word for a good cause
@BlakeHunskicer has a kickstarter project, Fleeing the War at Home: An interactive documentary introducing the crisis in Syria through the personal histories and dreams of Syrian refugees, with a few days and a few thousand dollars left to go. Blake is one of the graduate students I got to know this last year as a visiting… Continue reading
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Markets Why shouting about discounts won’t satisfy your customers, by Natalie Brandweiner in MyCustomer From Disney to dishwashers: Digital CRM to change customer experience, by Ashley Smith in SearchCRM. Venture Capital Funding At Its Lowest Since 2010 — A By The Numbers Look. By Meghan Casserly in Forbes. ArkOS: Your data, your rules. It explains,… Continue reading
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2013_07_16 Link pile
Journalism Fleeing the War at Home. A worthy kickstarter by @BlakeHunsicker No Ifs, Ands or Bots. By Bob Garfield in MediaPost. Pull-quote: Relying on CRM to repair BofA is like treating melanoma with Clinique. The Strange Case of Barrett Brown: Amid the outrage over the NSA’s spying program, the jailing of journalist Barrett Brown points… Continue reading
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2013_07_13 Link Pile
Advertising and marketing An olive branch to advertising, at ProjectVRM, September 2012 Retailers, STOP dealing with data brokers, by datacoup The Web Cookie Is Dying. Here’s The Creepier Technology That Comes Next, by Adam Tanner in Forbes LumaScapes, by Luma Partners destructoid.com, a typical small publisher supported by advertising, including third party tracking Surveillance vs.… Continue reading
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Hot Death from Above
Driving from New York to Boston today, I heard “Summer ‘Heat Tourists’ Sweat With Smiles In Death Valley” — a four-minute feature on NPR, aired on the 100th anniversary of the hottest temperature ever recorded outdoors on Earth, which happened in Death Valley: 134° Fahrenheit, which is around 57° Celsius. The report says Death Valley… Continue reading
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2013_07_05 Link Pile
Mind-bendings How many slaves work for you? A brand new way to share everything. Why you can’t get tickets to the hottest concerts. World 15 Photos From the Tahrir Square Protests You’ll Never See In Legacy Media. #Egypt #Morsi #Obama. By Doug Ross @ Journal. Taksim Underpass: Ask Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, Jane Jacobs, and… Continue reading