April 2008
53 posts
Apr 30th
Watch WiFi Detector : Digital-Lifestyles (alpha... →
This watch is totally not as sweet as the T-shirt version! But, props nonetheless;) UPDATE: Props to Lauren Warthan for sending this to me!
Apr 30th
Kyle's Brain Dump: America's Funniest Found Videos →
From Kyle Monson — I totally want to see this!
Apr 30th
Chief Marketing Technologist by Scott Brinker:... →
Scott Brinker is super smart — if you don’t read him, you should.
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
Semantics acceptance via the enterprise « The... →
Carla on semantics and our upcoming panel at SemTech.
Apr 29th
Apr 29th
How Best to Submit Our (Or Any) Stories to Digg -... →
A great set of best practices from Marshall based on how RWW’s articles have performed historically.
Apr 29th
GapingVoid: More thoughts on social objects →
I was just re-reading Hugh’s “social objects” post which I think is more and more relevant every day. Figured it was worth posting it again. Enjoy!
Apr 27th
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus - Here Comes... →
This struck a chord because we don’t have a TV. And people are always asking me how much I sleep per night, given all the extracurriculars. The answer is: 7-8 hours, depending. 10 on weekends, 6 when shizz is going down. There really is a cognitive surplus in the world, we just don’t think about it in the terms that Shirky does here. Caveats: we do watch TV on occasion on Hulu, and we...
Apr 27th
Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?... →
Our man Nova first posted on this topic on March of 2007 — just want to point out that he is about a year ahead of the curve in terms of his thinking about the web — amazing, Nova, you continue to impress;)
Apr 25th
Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club limits rice purchases -... →
WalMart is rationing rice. Maybe the end really IS near.
Apr 23rd
Ahem,: This World Should Be Taken Out Back, Like... →
Hehehe — W. is on Deal or No Deal tonight;)
Apr 22nd
Infinia, a solar power startup, attracts attention... →
This piece by Chris Morrison is the best articulation yet of Infinia’s manufacturing advantage and the potential scale at which its technology can be produced.
Apr 22nd
Kevin Kelly -- The Technium -- The Reality of... →
A.) Kevin Kelly is one of a very select few people out there approaching old problems from a uniquely helpful perspective. B.) I wholeheartedly agree with Kevin when he says that “I am deeply grateful to Robert for his generous and courageous disclosure of his real-life finances. Very few of us are willing to do that. But the truth about money is powerful.” Makes me think about a lot...
Apr 22nd
Embargoes: Managing the Embargo Process from... →
As a PR person, the topic of embargoes comes up a lot — just yesterday I got into another long conversation about the practice. The truth? We know who breaks embargoes and who doesn’t. And we don’t work with people who break embargoes, end of story — it’s unfair to everyone, including the other peeps that we have pre-briefed. Furthermore, honestly, if you have good...
Apr 16th
W-i-d-e-U-R-L.com →
Thsi is too awesome for words.
Apr 16th
Marshallk: PR ppl: I would like all your clients'... →
I rest my case! UPDATE: looks like a post on this topic may be on the way.
Apr 16th
My use of technology. . .
Corvida just asked me to describe how I use technology, and I thought a repsonse was worth a little navel-gazing — As a PR person, a lot of my life revolves around so-called “client service.” As a result, in tech PR (or in my case more specifically, startup tech PR), you use whatever your clients use — they use Jabber, you use Jabber, they use ICQ, you use ICQ, they use...
Apr 16th
Meme13 Tries and Fails to Solve the Techmeme... →
Dude, Marshall, I love it when you get all dirty with the RSS feeds. And rehetorically, it’s so slick when you post a critique and then deliver the solution. Nice!
Apr 16th
WatchWatch
Haha this is tooo funny — WiFi Detector Tee Shirt Dude at SXSWi 2008 on Flickr
Apr 15th
Dear interwebs. . .
Please don’t be mad at me — I haven’t forgotten about you. Will write again soon.  Love, Josh 
Apr 15th
How sustainable are you? - Download Squad →
Hehe the freeze frame that starts this off is priceless. Nice, boys;)
Apr 11th
6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rappers |... →
This is totally awesome;)
Apr 10th
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Jason, Steal My Co-Host →
DLS has the BEST shenanigans. EVER.
Apr 9th
Breaking the Techmeme Habit - ReadWriteWeb →
Apr 9th
I Saw The Future Of Social Networking The Other... →
Looks like per Arrington there’s going to be a big leap forward in the near future around location-aware social networks, in this case on the iPhone. Coupled with the work we’re seeing with Magitti, ZoneTag, Zurfer and others, looks like the moment for location-aware services is right around the corner. One of the things that Tom Gruber likes to talk about is “intelligence at the...
Apr 9th
Apr 9th
PR for Pirates →
Jeremy Bencken’s new blog (prepping the market for his next venture.) Lots of cool PR hacks to come!
Apr 8th
Edge: ELIZA'S WORLD by Nicholas Carr →
A great piece about how and why Joseph Weizenbaum became, “as John Markoff wrote in his New York Times obituary, a ‘heretic’ in the computer-science world, raising uncomfortable questions about man’s growing dependence on computers.”
Apr 8th
l33t Reddit page →
This is the custom Reddit page of the l33t reddit group (MG Siegler, Jason Kaneshiro, Frederic Lardinois and Steven Hodson). I’m finding this to be much more helpful as an aggregator than most others;) P.S. I like the idea of small little gangs of geeks running around creating under-the-radar services. With the # of tech headz who also like Hunter S. Thompson, I think it’s worth...
Apr 7th
Comcast, Twitter And The Chicken (trust me, I have... →
A great discussion how big brands can use technologies like Twitter to improve customer service and communicate in crisis situations. -Posted by Josh 
Apr 7th
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till... →
Apr 7th
Apr 6th
On the airplane. . .
Liz wisely noticed that they still sometimes ask you to “turn off all cell phones and pagers.” Are we missing something? There ain’t no beeperz anymore, people!
Apr 4th
IBM and Linden Partner on Enterprise-Class Second... →
Apr 3rd
Announcing The TechCrunch50 Conference: September... →
Today, TC announced the dates of the TC50 conference, which overlap with the dates already announced for DEMOFall. Disclosure: PN is a sponsor of the DEMO conferences. That being said, there will be 2X the already monsterous # of startups, all launching at the same time. From a PR point of view, good lord it is going to be easy to drown in that amount of noise, no matter how cool your stuff is....
Apr 2nd
Apr 2nd
Apr 2nd
Tumblr Image Viewer : burganprell →
Cool toy from topherchris — shows all of your Tumblr images;)
Apr 2nd
Apr 2nd
RescueTime: Web-based Time Management Software →
This Y Combinator startup just launched and it is waaay cool — helps you map your productivity by task type throughout the day…sort of like biofeedback — for your productivity.
Apr 2nd
Size Does Matter — Bigger Monitors Save 2.5 Hours... →
Apr 2nd
Self-control running low? | 43 Folders →
A great piece on some new research around how to actually get shizz done!
Apr 2nd
A Swarm of Angels // Remixing cinema →
This is an amazing open-source film project that you should definitely check out — they are trying to make it for $1 million UK and then give it away to 1 million people for free. Also, a great example of the cool stuff I keep finding in Twine. There’s a cool community of people running around in there, no kool-aid;)
Apr 2nd
Twitter feed. . .
Killing the feed of Twitter to this blog, it makes redundancies on FriendFeed, and you can always follow me in Twitter itself, user=burganprell;)
Apr 2nd
Analyst of the Year →
Vote for Redmonk and Guidewire!
Apr 2nd
Gotcha - Happy April Fool’s Day | Grant Robertson →
Grant, you BASTARD.  you totally had me.  and here I was thinking that I had survived April Fools unscathed. I am your humble servant, my leige.
Apr 2nd