Archive for April, 2006
Survey, take 2
The site survey link is now live, so any of you who regularly read this site, feel free to take a couple minutes and anonymously tell me all about yourself by clicking that link below.
John Zeratsky shared some details about how I did this. I’m pretty excited by this, as it’s a terrific […]
Survey
Hi there! If you’re reading this in a feed reader (Bloglines, NewsGator, FeedDemon, NetNewsWire — FeedBurner tells me that is 70% of you), I’d really appreciate it if you take a few minutes and click on the ‘Take my survey’ link. Let me know if the overall experience is OK. (Should take you about 5 […]
links for 2006-04-22
Deborah McMurray Associates – VW TV Ads Interesting – VW’s new ads show head-on crashes to show how safe they are… (tags: VW advertising tv) StillFree.com Very well-done hoax showing someone spraypainting Air Force One “still free”. Photoshop? Digital editing? Nope. A rented 747 and a paint job to match Air Force One. Not cheap! (tags: advertising graffiti politics bush) Talking […]
Rahm Emanuel on Bill Maher
Not his best performance by far. I think the transcript will read well, but his delivery was off – wasn’t clear whether he had a bad satellite connection, or what. Style aside, the substance was good – he was there primarily to promote his new book, The Plan. It will be interesting to see if […]
links for 2006-04-21
A Venture Forth » Blog Archive » The Art of Branding (And, Why Startups Often Have a Strategic Edge) “Compare Feedburner vs. AT&T…” I love it. (tags: feedburner att startup strategy) Mumps outbreak likely to spread, CDC chief says | Chicago Tribune “We expect more cases—definitely,” said Gerberding, noting the virus could spread to other parts of the country […]
Subaru B9 Tribeca
By the way, I mentioned that I bought the Tribeca recently in my last post. In spite of some of the reviews, I love how it looks, and have been very happy with it so far. My only complaint? The mileage is not-so-great… which isn’t surprising, given that it’s an SUV. After all, coming from […]
In my day, you mailed your bills in
About a month ago, I traded in my Jetta for a Subaru B9 Tribeca. There was a good promotion going on at the time, which meant that the car is financed through Chase as opposed to the bank I ordinarily deal with for car loans.
Two weeks ago I received the paperwork to set up autopayments […]
links for 2006-04-20
Chicago Cubs : News : Garage sale on Saturday Own a piece of Wrigley this Saturday… (tags: Cubs Wrigley) OnlyOnce: Counter Cliche: I Know When I See One, Too Matt Blumberg at ReturnPath gives a great list of traits that make a great VC. (tags: entrepreneurship VC business strategy) BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Proposal for a “correction” tag Jeff wonders how […]
Phillips TV repair and the magic of the Internet
Will’s post about a bad TV from December, 2004, now has 169 comments. All of them from disgruntled Phillips TV owners. Lately the comments are coming in 1-2 per day.
Open source bat module
One of the fun things we did in the Dean campaign was introduce transparency in fundraising; as people saw what the goal was (and how close we were to the goal), it had a wonderful effect in encouraging further contributions. I had no idea that there was an open source Drupal plugin written by my […]
