January 2010
I Am Not a "Fan" of Your Mundane Life on Facebook
Stop asking me to be a “Fan” of you (who I hardly talk to), your hobbies (which I don’t share with you), or your small business (that I do no business with). I’m not a fan of your mundane life. I’m not even a fan of Vin Diesel, the most popular person on Facebook. Why would I care about your real estate dealings? Not only do I not give a crap about being your...
Microblogging (see: Twitter) Needs to Be...
This morning I woke up to find that Twitter was down. They tell you in a really cute way, with a little “fail whale” - it’s so sweet. But why is this lack of reliability tolerated by governments, large corporations, emergency workers, and other serious people? Mashable.com reports that the best theory for the downtime was a deluge of tweets caused by a second Haiti earthquake. A...
Microblogging (see: Twitter) Needs to Be...
This morning I woke up to find that Twitter was down. They tell you in a really cute way, with a little “fail whale” - it’s so sweet. But why is this lack of reliability tolerated by governments, large corporations, emergency workers, and other serious people? Mashable.com reports that the best theory for the downtime was a deluge of tweets caused by a second Haiti earthquake. A...
How Microsoft Gets Its Cheeky On
Today I’m happy to announce that I’ve taken a full time position as Director of Innovative Social Engagement for Microsoft, in its U.S. Public Sector division that handles federal, state, and local government, education, and healthcare business. I’ll be staying in the DC area (where the division is headquartered) and will still be involved in some other activities, such as...
The "Google Approach" to Open Government at the...
All federal government agencies are currently under pressure to respond on strict timelines to the Open Government Directive (OGD) that recently came down from the Office of Management and Budget. Agencies are directed to take steps to create a more open, transparent, and participatory government. What these steps look like, and the trajectory they take, is still largely open. Recently, I saw one...
Has Social Media Marketing Worked For Kodak?
The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of Kodak, Jeffrey Hayzlett, is ubiquitous and seemingly knows everyone. Well, on Twitter. He’s always tweeting about where he is and what he’s doing, and he’s become a fixture at something called the “140 Conference,” which celebrates Twitter as a communications method. As somewhat of a joke, I recently commented: “I...
How NBC Can Easily Solve the Jay Leno / Conan...
NBC, in all it’s complete lack of wisdom, moved Jay Leno to 10pm (wrong time), Conan O’Brien into the Tonight Show (wrong fit), and hired Jimmy Fallon (wrong person). Now, its got a problem, namely that Conan is getting beat by David Letterman, and Jay might be out of place where he is slotted, and Jimmy Fallon is about half as funny as an Alec Baldwin voicemail message. So, what to...
Disappointing Disappointment About Vanity Fair's...
Vanity Fair, one of my favorite regular reads, recently published a short article about “America’s Tweethearts” - young women who have a lot of followers on Twitter…and are not coincidentally very attractive. Not that they’re popular only because they’re attractive - they are some talented people (I know about half of them personally, and adore and respect them)...
Government 2.0 on a Boat: U.S. Navy Explicit...
Today I published a post for Mediate titled, “I’m on a Boat: The Motherf*cking Navy Version” which was about some enlisted U.S. sailors who lip-dubbed a classic Saturday Night Live video called I’m on a Boat. Here’s the original I’m on a Boat video from SNL’s Andy Samburg and crew, featuring hip-hop star T Pain: And here’s the Navy version I...
Government 2.0 on a Boat: U.S. Navy Explicit...
Today I published a post for Mediate titled, “I’m on a Boat: The Motherf*cking Navy Version” which was about some enlisted U.S. sailors who lip-dubbed a classic Saturday Night Live video called I’m on a Boat. Here’s the original I’m on a Boat video from SNL’s Andy Samburg and crew, featuring hip-hop star T Pain: And here’s the Navy version I...
Government 2.0 on a Boat: U.S. Navy Explicit...
Today I published a post for Mediate titled, “I’m on a Boat: The Motherf*cking Navy Version” which was about some enlisted U.S. sailors who lip-dubbed a classic Saturday Night Live video called I’m on a Boat. Here’s the original I’m on a Boat video from SNL’s Andy Samburg and crew, featuring hip-hop star T Pain: And here’s the Navy version I...
Government 2.0 on a Boat: U.S. Navy Explicit...
Today I published a post for Mediate titled, “I’m on a Boat: The Motherf*cking Navy Version” which was about some enlisted U.S. sailors who lip-dubbed a classic Saturday Night Live video called I’m on a Boat. Here’s the original I’m on a Boat video from SNL’s Andy Samburg and crew, featuring hip-hop star T Pain: And here’s the Navy version I...
Value Propositions and the Limits of Lethal...
Now that everyone’s back at work this week, I’ve been swamped with emails. A lot of them involve people I don’t know, or don’t know well, asking me for stuff - usually my thoughts. For free, oftentimes. I do try to help people out when I can be useful and have time. But I’m busy. Sometimes I’m traveling, sometimes in meetings, sometimes researching and writing....
Twitter "Endures" as the Match.com of...
A weekend New York Times article by David Carr rehashing common knowledge among anyone who’s ever read more than three blog posts about “why Twitter will endure” got me thinking about the ways in which it will not endure, or the ways in which it may endure via which no one will really care about it. Yes, this is what I do on my vacations. I’ve tried not to write or even...
Twitter "Endures" as the Match.com of...
A weekend New York Times article by David Carr rehashing common knowledge among anyone who’s ever read more than three blog posts about “why Twitter will endure” got me thinking about the ways in which it will not endure, or the ways in which it may endure via which no one will really care about it. Yes, this is what I do on my vacations. I’ve tried not to write or even...
Homicide Bombers vs. Suicide Bombers
Why do we call people who blow themselves up in public “suicide bombers”? That puts focus on the bombers. And usually we don’t care much for them. Why don’t we start calling them homicide bombers? That puts the focus on the victims, and it more accurately describes what they’re doing - murdering people. . What do you think? Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with...
