Monthly Archive for March, 2007

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Kathy Sierra rocks

I met Kathy at SXSWi when she was on my panel. She was among many cool and interesting people I met there and she came off just like her blog – smart, friendly, funny and most of all wise. I thought of her as a fellow grown up, as in addition to worrying about our Technorati ranking, we had kids, mortgages to pay and all of those other things in life to worry about.

Trust me, having her on that panel made my job as moderator much easier – I just got out of the way and let her (and Hugh and Gabe) spread their wisdom.

So when I heard about the troll situation, I couldn’t believe anyone would have it in for such a wonderful smart person.

Please go over to her blog now and read about this awful situation. The people involved in this (and she names names) should be ashamed.

More on Techmeme.

UPDATE: Brian has an excellent post on this topic.

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To twitter or not to twitter

The whole Twitter ‘debate’ strikes me as a bit silly. Reminds me of the days when people looked at you funny because you have friends you only knew through the Internet.

There are some people who don’t ‘get’ Twitter. I, on the other hand, love it.

I don’t get NBA Basketball. Go figure.

Rex Hammock has the right perspective on this issue.

And for the record, www.twitter.com/davidparmet

UPDATE: A perfect example of the “I don’t get it so it must be trivial” arguement from BitePR.

But, something’s nagging at me and that is that just because you can distribute information really quickly and really easily, it doesn’t mean that that information is of interest!

Note the use of the exclemation point. That means he’s using that “ever notice” kind of voice. But all seriousness aside, does all information have to be “of interest?” Does it matter if someone out there is blogging about their kitty? Does that mean all blogs are not “of interest?” With that arguement, we could get rid of most of our clients and have our days free for the important stuff, mixing drinks and playing World of Warcraft.

For example, one of my mates has signed up to Twitter and quite quickly I started getting alerts letting me know what he was having for lunch, what was happening on his commute home etc. Now, I love this guy dearly but basically, I’m not interested in the micro details of his daily movements.

Then turn off the SMS feature. Or better yet, find more interesting friends.

It’s not of real interest and, frankly, I don’t have the time or attention span to cope with information that is not really pertinent to me.

There you have it. The problem with most PR people and PR agencies in general. The “I don’t get it so I’ll just ignore it” syndrome that’s led many agencies down the road to extinction.

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Dumb PR move of the week

All I can say is how fucking stupid.

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UPDATE: Just to follow up on Ryan and Eric’s comments… I’m not at all disturbed about an offer of $100 going to a journalist to sit on a panel. What makes it icky to me is the offer coming not from Intuit but from its PR agency. That’s what smacks of bribery.

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New toy alert

Since my contract with Verizon was up, it was time to either stick with the slavemasters or move to a new provider. So yesterday I waltzed over the the Cingular store in Stamford and picked up a shiny new Blackberry Pearl. I got a one year contract cause I figure by then the iPhone will have all the kinks worked out and I can get me one of those without fear.

I’ve already set myself up with the Opera Mini-Browser and all the Google mobile apps. If anyone can recommend a decent mobile RSS reader, I’d be greatly appreciative.

UPDATE: On the advice of Dave and Josh I’ve downloaded the Newsgator Go! mobile RSS reader but I can’t get the darn thing to work. I download and install alright but when I try to open it I get a message that the ‘module NewsGator20_en_16×16 does not match codfile timestamp of sibling module NewsGator20_en_1×16-1.’

If anyone out there has any clever suggestions, I’d appreciate it.

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What Phil said…

(O)ut of that slice of the 70 million, there must be at least two dozen blogs written by and for midwestern, Greek-speaking, middle-aged couples who have adopted dyspeptic, polydactyl, twin Samoan infants and are just desperate to buy a carbon-fiber-and-unobtainium tandem stroller to cart them around in. (Household incomes = $120,000+, of course.)

Repeat to yourself, blogs are magazines designed to reach any particular demographic. Blogs are blogs. If they happen to intersect with the folks you are trying to reach, more power to you. But just because there are 70 million of the damn things out there, don’t expect there to be a community of bloggers interested in whatever you are trying to sell.

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