Business Strategy
Breasts on a plane
This is just ridiculous. (Originally spotted over at BuzzMachine.) By contrast, I recall flying to Palm Springs with Robin and Ricky (then about 6 months old). We flew on Southwest (rapidly becoming my favorite airline, by the way – that’s another post), and I was struck as we began our initial descent: I was […]
Lawyers, Blogs and Music
Two posts lately by friends were an absolute joy to read: Erik Heels wrote about meeting a rock star at a Halloween party, and Marty Schwimmer wrote about a Springsteen tribute band.
Not only were these posts fun to read, but is there any doubt that if you were a musician, you’d hire these two in […]
Techdirt Insight Community
I’ve enjoyed knowing Mike Masnick almost as long as I’ve been blogging (I used to work with a guy who was friends with Mike in high school, we got to know each other through Mitch), and I’ve always been impressed with the business he’s built around Techdirt. Most of us in the blogosphere know Techdirt […]
Bill Tancer was right
Bill Tancer’s blog first hit my radar when Lee Rainie at Pew Internet & American Life told me about it… since then, I’ve found it to be a treasure-trove of insight into search traffic. Last month, I wrote about Bill’s observations about home sales, and the fact that he believed, based on search activity in […]
Search as a leading economic indicator
Bill Tancer’s latest post about Hitwise having advance indications of yesterday’s announcement of a drop in July home sales is fascinating. In short, Bill points out that the National Association of Realtors require 3-4 weeks to put their analysis together, so, even though September’s almost upon us, we’re just now hearing that home sales in […]
Is this being blogged?
Fascinating conversation over at Andrea Weckerle’s blog about the firing of a Goodwill worker. Andrea not only reports the orginal story, but followed up and spoke with several people at Goodwill. Subsequently, a number of concerned Goodwill customers forwarded a link to her blog through Goodwill’s corporate site, resulting in a discussion of the matter […]
Book update
I recently finished The Bourne Legacy, a book I was incredibly reluctant to read. I first read The Bourne Identity in junior high school, and I have vivid memories of reading The Bourne Ultimatum while traveling in France as a high school student. Ludlum’s gift for complex plots, attention to detail, respect for his characters […]
Great feedback
At Gnomedex, one of the more interesting conversations I participated in was with a large, brand-name publisher (who shall remain nameless). I was talking about how at FeedBurner, we take feedback very seriously. So, seriously, in fact, that many of us monitor Technorati pretty actively (and other similar services) to look for anyone talking about […]
SciFi makes its case for Emmy awards
Battlestar Galactica has my vote. (Well, if I had one, I guess.)
Feeding Geffen
I’m really excited to announce our latest customer over at FeedBurner, Geffen Records. I wrote about it over on the company blog, and apparently this new strategy has already lead to at least one album sale. Sometimes it really is that easy!
Here’s why I think what Geffen’s doing is important: instead of trying to ignore […]
