Year: 2002

  • Blog meetings continue

    Out of disappointment, an opportunity: Terry Frasier, owner of the blog formerly known as “Blunt Force Trauma”, was going to be in Chicago this week. We were trying to find a way to hook up, but it turned out I had to be in London a day earlier and I cancelled. (Turns out that was…

  • MarketingProfs.com: Successful Branding

    Courtesy of POELog: MarketingProfs.com: What Becomes A Brand Most? – This sort of ties together 3 of my more recent posts.In branding, advertising it not the most important element; consistency is. Consistency is eminently more important than advertising when it comes to branding. “Consistency in what?” you ask. Consistency of message, of product or service,…

  • Google Changing Its Colors

    There’s quite a debate going on in the webmaster world about the recent changes to Google’s pagerank algorithm. I commented on the phenomenon earlier this week (and my drop from the top 10 “Rick” results on the Internet), but it appears that the impact of Google’s changes are far-reaching. The two camps can be seen…

  • Case Study: Microsoft’s Intranet

    Case study of Microsoft’s intranet. A substantial and excellent case study of Microsoft’s intranet and the information architecture challenges that had to be addressed. Worth the time. Boxes and Arrows: MSWeb: An Enterprise Intranet #1. Fascinating look at Microsoft’s Intranet Information Architecture [Roland Tanglao’s Weblog] It’s nearly impossible to develop a successful information architecture against…

  • Tuesday Morning Quarterback

    If you’re a football fan and haven’t found Gregg Easterbrook’s column, be sure to check it out. He used to write for Slate, but has now switched to ESPN. Gregg is what Dennis Miller should have been for Monday Night Football: crazy knowledge about the game matched with an off-beat sense of humor. Enjoy his…

  • Blogging from the Harvard Business School Publishing Next Generation Growth Conference

    Denise Howell blogs from the Harvard Business School Publishing Next Generation Growth Conference, and comments specifically on the Komisar, Zook, Cook and Foster Panel. One quote in particular caught my eye: Creative Destruction: markets outperform coporations. Long term survival and long term performance are not the same thing. Foster chooses to take an investor return…

  • T-Mobile Sidekick

    I held a Sidekick last night – happened to pass by a T-Mobile (aka “The cellular company formerly known as Voicestream but now we’ve hired Catherine Zeta-Jones and got rid of Jamie Lee Curtis”) stall at a mall and checked it out. Initial reaction: great form factor, nice big screen, very functional design. The construction…

  • The Economist: Scale-Free Architecture

    The shape of the InternetIt is less random than people thought Oct 3rd 2002 [Economist.com: Science & Technology] From the article: Dr Barabasi [at University of Notre Dame] noticed that the World Wide Web (the most visible bit of the Internet) was scale-free in 1999. His observation touched off a flurry of research, and others…

  • The World’s Funniest Joke

    My, how the Brits have fallen. Thirty years ago, Monty Python revealed that they had discovered the funniest joke in the world. It was so funny, in fact, that a team of translators were working on snippets of the joke. The sketch begins somberly, and escalates in classic Python style, until the Colonel declares that…

  • There Goes the Neighborhood

    Words can’t express the combination of horror, humor, and shock: http://www.knology.net/~carlos/redneck.htm Enjoy.