Posted in Social media on December 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Francis Bacon, “I heart social media.”
Jeremiah had a post which made me think. In it he reports the inevitable progression of a new media, though in an accelerated age, it’s come a lot quicker than novels or the theatre. I’m talking about “The Death of X,” of course. Give X the value of “social media.”
In [...]
Posted in Customer relations on December 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Within many companies there is a core belief - core because it is a cherished belief of the people who make up the companies - that “knowledge is power.” In an era in which the public’s relationship to data, information and knowledge has changed so pronouncedly, this attitude is proving to be a liability. This [...]
Posted in Materials, Personal on December 28, 2006 | No Comments »
When I started my career as a journalist I did so as the co-founder/editor/features editor/managing editor (depending on the issue and the circumstance) of Emergency Horse, a monthly tabloid-style magazine in Oregon. I started from day one with an approach to the kind of articles it would contain and how the publication would be structured. [...]
Posted in Music on December 25, 2006 | No Comments »
James Brown
1922-2006
James_Brown, funk
Curt Hopkins
Posted in Social media on December 25, 2006 | No Comments »
LeWeb3
I normally don’t get caught up in the food fights of the Web 2.0-Social Media-Web-based Application-Web 3.0 variety. For one thing, I live in Ashland, Oregon. For another, I know virtually no one in this group. For a third thing, I have sex. However, I think in this case I am uniquely qualified to [...]
Posted in Customer relations, Social media on December 24, 2006 | 2 Comments »
I recently developed a plan for the introduction of social media into a large arts organization. The goal was to radically remake the organization’s relationship to its customers, a relationship which was showing significant signs of strain.
This was an organization that had a decades-long history of active discouragement by its leaders of listening to customers. [...]
Posted in Social media on December 24, 2006 | No Comments »
If you have a sense of humor and follow the vagaries of the social media world, check out the post on my personal blog entitled, “LeWeb3, TechCrunch & Vecosys: What’s All This Brouhaha About Flapping Loaves?” As I said elsewhere, any group of people deeply into their thing can get pretty dramatic about stuff that, [...]
Posted in Communications on December 21, 2006 | No Comments »
I find systems of thought (ideologies, philosophies) to be more intellectual exercise than trustworthy tool for understanding the world. Like a t-square, a system can be moved around a page to make interesting or comic patterns but they’re about as useful at getting at the meaning of life (and the “texts” that inform it) as [...]
Posted in Jacksonville, Publications on December 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
My latest publication came out Sunday in the Medford Mail Tribune. It was an essay on the changes I’d seen in the town my mother grew up in, Jacksonville, Oregon. It was published in an occasional 2A column called, Southern Oregon Journal, which doesn’t get posted online apparently. The reaction to it was very positive, [...]
Posted in Blogs on December 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Two new collective blogs have recently been started. The first, Sounds Iranian, was created by Farid Pouya to facilitate academic discussion on that country.
The second, The Persian Impediment, was started by Cyrus Pers under the auspices of Article 19, is devoted to bloggers and free speech in Iran.
Both are worth subscribing to if you have [...]
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