August 2007
29 posts
The Ravens are the Death Star; the Eagles are Mace... →
This proves that you can be a football geek and a Star Wars geek at the same time!
burganprell: Shaping up to be a crazy conference-going Fall! (via Twitter / burganprell)
Austin Sound Off Festival 2007! Scoot Inn Saturday... →
Join us on Saturday!
Perusing “The Fearless Critic” guide to Austin food. I continue to be impressed with the eating here, but alas miss New York dearly. My last trip to the Big Apple was a delicious, 48-hour free-for-all.
Simpsonize Me →
Burger King is sponsoring Simpsonize Me, a site that analyzes your portrait and turns you into a Groening character. Thanks, Harry!
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Should the Net... →
Nick Carr, brilliant as always.
Joshua Dilworth: More Macbook setup and cleaning for houseguest this weekend:) (via Twitter / Joshua Dilworth)
Joshua Dilworth: @cote Me too please! (via Twitter / Joshua Dilworth)
With Corn Prices Rising, Pigs Switch To Fatty... →
Between the double whammy of increased cost of corn and increased cost of every other crop because farmers are switching to growing corn instead, it’s gotten to the point where it’s cheaper to feed livestock, such as pigs, human snack food, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Minding the Planet: Knowledge Networking →
A very insightful post by Nova Spivack about knowledge networks and the future of social networking.
Will Google drain life from English? →
White Riot →
Nick White’s new blog is a great and well-reasoned counterpoint to “death of print media” meme. Also check out the great post by Stephen Baker of Businessweek just above.
Star Trek Inspirational Posters | Laughing Squid →
Joshua Dilworth: Rocking out my new Macbook! (via Twitter / Joshua Dilworth)
Demo Alumni Party - on Flickr - Photo Sharing! →
Awesome pics by Brian Solis. The lovely Lisa Peterson and Laura Beck preside.
“Following Alexis West” : Blogphilo New Media →
Brian Boyko’s doc in development. The project, inspired by the advocacy documentaries of Michael Moore, Louis Theroux, and Morgan Spurlock, will take a look at how New Zealand’s proportional system prevents problems that we have in the United States, including gerrymandering, negative campaigning, civic disengagement, and undue influence of powerful lobbies, as well as taking a look at...
Revenge by Gadget →
I have purchased the TV-B-Gone for many friends in the past, who have used it for endless amusement:)
Joshua Dilworth: Landed in San Jose. (via Twitter / Joshua Dilworth)
Doc Searls Weblog » Looking toward life beyond... →
Doc Searls is very, very smart.
Google News Hypocrisy: Walled Off Content →
Update on the Google News news — and Gabe Rivera is spot-on.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger: Think, Play, Do:... →
From Scoble, a guy who can make business process management (though he doesn’t name it as such) sound sexy and cutting-edge! Irving Wladawsky-Berger officially writes my newest favorite blog.
“Business and organizational systems are far more complicated, dynamic and unpredictable. So we have our work cut out for us as we now try to bring the technologies and methods of engineering to...
Google News Blog: Perspectives about the news from... →
Any person mentioned in a news story that Google News indexes can email in their comments to news-comments@google.com. Those who do so will be asked to verify their identity and organizational affiliation. Could be really useful for any clients who would like to continue the conversation around a piece about/mentioning them, but also a bit strange as it makes Google News into more of an...
Joshua Dilworth: Need a good party photographer for 8/14 in Palo Alto, $750 budget — know anyone? (via Twitter / Joshua Dilworth)
Joshua Dilworth: When I propose to Liz, if she gets a ring, do I get an iPhone? (via Twitter / Joshua Dilworth)
Marketing Sherpa Viral Video Hall of Fame →
While I’m on the subject of NetQoS, we won the #2 spot in the Viral Video Hall of Fame back in April! Pam O’Neal was asked to run around around speaking at Marketing Sherpa events about this project, you should catch her if you get a chance:http://tinyurl.com/25ayaa
Corporate Blogs Take On an Edge →
Heather Havenstein of Computerworld holds up Brian Boyko of NetQoS and the Network Performance Daily blog as the example of what corporate blogs are (and should be) doing. Congrats Brian to Brian and Pam O’Neil (Director of Marketing Communications)!
[Shout Out] EarlyStageVC: BBC & Mashups - What... →
Peter Rip on the Teqlo “rebranding” (that’s not the right word for it) strategy, also links to the BBC program “Click” (Dan Simmons and team) — which has some great videos, including a stand-alone of Peter talking about the VC landscape that’s top-notch, and there’s a nice bit on Twitter too. Peter’s previous post on Teqlo provides a few PR...
Just Too Cool: Interview & Podcast with Paul... →
From Brian Boyko over at NetQoS, he continues to rock out after an awesome writeup of NPD in Computerworld (link to follow).