Snaps are here
By cm | September 4, 2008
If you notice a new pop up on links, we just added Snaps by Bill Gross. We hope you enjoy them.
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Great idea that I wished I’d thought of
By cm | September 2, 2008
Seth posts another blogger’s idea about how to make headway into media sales when you are a nobody. I think this is a BRILLIANT idea (emphasis on caps). I am going to try it on two different projects that I mentor right now in CD’s and a children’s book. Basically, if you’re selling a CD and you’re unknown, buy cd’s of very similar artists, sell them on eBay, and include yours as a gimme. Brill.
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The final days
By cm | September 2, 2008
If you’re an average arm chair voter like most of us, you’ll appreciate this candid look at the Bush presidency on it’s last year. It’s not a Bush-hater piece but more of an expose’ on the POTUS in his day to day talks with friends and close advisors about the things that we gleen from bad media. Peter Baker has a lot of contacts that I doubt he’d uncover if it wasn’t true. Never the less, I will have my POTUS election prediction in these pages in October (I have to wait to see how many illegitimate children each candidate has first). Meanwhile, this is a spectactular read that I was able to manage on a Kindle even though it’s long. Please make the effort.
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I believe it now : Water
By cm | September 2, 2008
As part of a belt tightening and ecological move, we are kicking the water service and it’s giant diesel truck to the curb - literally.
Back to the Brita. Back to the City. Just like when we were kids.
I met a Cal Tech scientist in one of my eavesdropping sessions at the grocery store and he confirmed enough of what I’d been gathering and that’s no matter what, a Number 1 bottle of water stored in a warehouse for 6 months has more plastic residue and chemical relapse that City Tap will win almost every time. Here’s more — Water
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Be back full bore September 2
By cm | August 27, 2008
Lots of new posts and fun talk will bring us into Autumn 2008. Have a good Labor Day!
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Supposedly Obama will text me this week
By cm | August 19, 2008
text 62262 to Obama and he’ll give you first dibs on his VP pick. Waiting….
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The misleading notion
By cm | August 19, 2008
I’ve been saying this for years to friends that boast that they earn all these miles and go all these places. But if you put pen to paper, you realize that it’s all a very expensive hoax. Now, with the airlines even more stressed, this will get worse. [note - I carry the AA card, so I'm guilty but the miles are not the driver for me - it's the only CITI card that I like the design of] Quit bragging that all your spending is sending you around the world. Most likely you’ll end up in Dubuque, Iowa with a big bill.
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Sometimes the ugly is ok
By cm | August 12, 2008
Thinking today that the ugly can be alright. The ugly can rule if it’s useful.
Take into account TinyURL. Ugly, but gosh darnit a billion hits a month. Geezus. Imagine their Google Adwords deposits. The joke’s on all the millions spent on flash, web 2.0, etc etc.
Take into account how basic Google really is.
These sites are the ugly gal at the prom that will be the next Bill Gates. Behind the facade, there is an engine that is useful for Billions of us every month. If the engine didn’t hum, then it would be just that… ugly. It’s daring to be ugly and most of us that do it, do it because we don’t know anything about style.
Be ugly if you can make it work.
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Rest in peace Randy Pausch
By cm | August 4, 2008
RIP Randy…
One of your basic tenets was “stick to the fundamentals”.
I agree. Thanks for the great book, buddy.
Something many of us forget. Sometimes we think our jobs and the projects we manage are oh so more important if we make it more complicated. Take off the layers and you’ll see how it works just fine with the basics.
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Sponsor Lisa — help out ladies with breast cancer
By cm | August 4, 2008
My friend Lisa is walking the 3 day for breast cancer in Dallas. Click here and give her twenty bux. Put in the honor roll message that you found her on the hothead…
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