“…You see, if you go like him all the time you’ll finally get it.”“Get what?”
“IT! IT! I’ll tell you - now no time, we have no time now.”
On the Road, p. 127
Archive for the 'Mouthing Off' Category
Stowe Boyd doesn’t like the social media news release. Big surprise. Neither does Robert Scoble.
Here’s a big shock guys… neither of you are the targets of this effort. Neither of you are journalists (last time I checked) and even if you were, no self respecting PR person would be caught dead sending either of you a news release.
Feel free to roll your eyes at the above…
Which brings me to my point. The press release as currently constructed serves a purpose above and beyond generating buzz and news. It creates a permanent record and it satisfies legal requirements for disclosure, among other things. That’s why it’s not going away nor should it.
Now to my other point - if the content is problematic, you’ll find no debate from me. I’m sick and tired of ‘leading blah blah blah’ and ’solutions’ and phony ‘pleased and delighted’ quotes. But that’s not the issue the social media news release is addressing.
In the backpack I carry around with me all over the world, I have an iPod, a mobile phone with bluetooth, my MacBook Pro and my Yaesu VX-7R VHF/UHF hand-held transceiver.
So yesterday, when I found myself at a conference where the organizers didn’t feel that WiFi is a necessity, and my cell phone battery died, I was dead in the water. The VX-7R might be able to do 50/144/220/430 Mhz transmitting, and of course I can autopatch into the telephone system and use it as a modem if I could reach a repeater with rights, but without bluetooth, I was incommunicado.
Hams have always been at the cutting edge of technological advancement. My little handheld can get the BBC while hitting the local repeaters… at the same time. I can get weather alerts, monitor emergencies, listen in on several local airports all from my backyard. There’s even a little doohicky for figuring barometric pressure and altitude.
But no bluetooth.
Yaesu, are you listening?
Godwin’s Law states that:
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
Today Steve Gillmor said of Nick Douglas:
The language of the letter is reminiscent of a McCarthyite witchhunt–there’s unfortunately no other way to read it.
While this doesn’t rise to the level of Nazism, it’s at least worth a shot in the Web2.0 drinking game.
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Oh my god so freaking funny……