I will tell you this about iLiver 2.0: It’s nanoengineered, and it kicks ass. I wake up every morning feeling like Shaft, Superfly, James Bond and Kung Fu all put together. I’m bench-pressing twice my body weight, and I am so friggin ready to kick some low-rent tabloid hack wannabe ass that’s it not even funny.

Welcome back Fake Steve. We missed you.

Random Posts

• Through Being Cuil
• Awards Time
• Sita Sings The Blues

to be truly successful with communications on the web, you have to blend and balance great strategies, with great content and great technology,

Link

Amen.

These days we’re more than a smile and a phone call, we’re web developers and content creators. The successful PR agency of the future will not only offer strategic advice and tactical execution but come with the ability to build and deploy online tools to execute, monitor, communicate, offer a community platform or to do whatever else clients need of them.

Related Posts:

• The ‘Why’ And ‘How’ Of Social Media
• A SHIFT in New York
• Social Media Angels

Bloggers are people.

People are media.

People are social.

Link

Related Posts:

• Social Media Angels
• Social Media Camp Recap
• My Visit to Social Media Hour

Like everyone else in the web / intersocialmediasphere marketing world I read Purple Cow along with the Cluetrain Manifesto and all the other Web2.0 required reading.

I’ll freely admit to know and again completely forgetting the meanings and subtle hints and I’m thankful now and again for reminders from fellow web citizens. And I’ll freely admit to mostly only getting the less subtle points of the arguments and mostly just blasting ahead with a head full of traditional marketing steam.

So I’m very thankful and indebted (as always) to Hugh MacLeod this morning for reminding me yet again what’s important:

On a professional level, the stuff Seth talks about in Purple Cow is still very relevant. Be remarkable, Everyone is a marketer etc.- is what to me, Web 2.0 was all about. It WASN’T about yakking on endlessly about the latest shiny object or the latest crazy web-celeb stunt. It was about getting interesting ideas, products and services out to market a lot more cheaply, quickly and easily than it ever was before before. THAT’S WHAT EXCITED ME.

Link

This morning Hugh is launching the Gapingvoid Gallery with a special limited edition print of the cover of Purple Cow, signed by Hugh and Seth Godin. From Seth’s blog:

Every penny of my share of the project goes to roomtoread.org. My hope is that this project alone will pay for most of a school in a small village that really needs one. If you’re looking for a big purple totem pole, here you go.

Link

So there you go, not only do you get to remind yourself what got you here in the first place, but you get to give something to help others. And you get a big fat purple cow to hang on your wall.

Related Posts:

• A Bit Of Self Promotion
• Get A Clue
• A SHIFT in New York

Which is why it’s refreshing to read of a company that acted quickly to deal with an embarrassing (and potentially dangerous) situation.

Kudos to all at Domino’s Pizza for putting out a fire before it began.

Bonus video:

Domino’s Scientists Test Limits Of What Humans Will Eat

Related Posts:

• A SHIFT in New York
• Social Media Angels
• Go Back To School

Allen Stern of Centernetworks pretty much sums up the over the top reactions to last night’s change.

Related Posts:

• On Engagement
• Scoble In The Heart Of Darkness
• Getting Even And Doing Something

Mohegan Sun, the native-American mega-casino in Connecticut is taking an interesting tact in their marketing efforts.

a recession theme-aimed squarely at a new breed of customer: the budget-conscious high roller. The minimum bet at the black jack table has been dropped to just five bucks. Half- and even quarter-cent slot machines have hit the gaming floor, too. Meanwhile, the Sun is hoping to recapture some of the fast-disappearing expense-account trade with its “Business Bail Out” program, which includes free gaming lessons for corporate clients.

Link

I like this. You’ve got to hand it to the marketing folks for having the guts to go with reality in place of the fantasy that most casinos try to sell.

Related Posts:

• Social Media Angels
• Social Media Camp Recap
• My Visit to Social Media Hour

Related Posts:

• Social Media Club New York
• A SHIFT in New York
• Social Media Angels

After reading Mark Bittman’s latest – Food Matters – Sue has put us all on a steady diet of Bulgar wheat and organic spinach.

Just kidding, the Bulgar wheat is pretty good and the spinach adds some much needed texture.

But seriously, the whole exercise, along with the garden and other steps towards eating better, has us thinking about our impact on the Planet. According to Bittman, “serving a typical family-of-four steak dinner is the rough equivalent of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home.” And even if all the cows destined for the table were grass fed organic, there still wouldn’t be enough room on the planet for all that grass.

Yes folks, something has to give.

I’m really enjoying our new dining habits. It’s a blast to fill the kitchen with things I never saw or heard of growing up (leaks? what the hell are leaks?) and the chopping and slicing and cooking is something the whole family can join in. The food is great and I feel great and I really love the expression on the kids faces right before they taste it and realize it isn’t so bad after all.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Mark Bittman: Food Matters
• New from Mark Bittman: How to Cook…Something
• Mark Bittman’s “applied Pollan”

Related Posts:

• We Are Loving Paris
• Fresh Herbs!

Just finished watching the season premier of Battlestar Galactica and my mind is totally fraked .

Speaking of four letter words, someone at KFC is either the gutsiest marketing genius of all time, or the dumbest.

Update: I’m currently the number one hit on Google for KFC Frak Pack. That can’t be good.

Related Posts:

• The Final Frontier