April 2008
53 posts
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!
Kyle's Brain Dump: America's Funniest Found Videos →
From Kyle Monson — I totally want to see this!
Chief Marketing Technologist by Scott Brinker:... →
Scott Brinker is super smart — if you don’t read him, you should.
Semantics acceptance via the enterprise « The... →
Carla on semantics and our upcoming panel at SemTech.
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.
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!
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...
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;)
Wal-Mart-owned Sam's Club limits rice purchases -... →
WalMart is rationing rice. Maybe the end really IS near.
Ahem,: This World Should Be Taken Out Back, Like... →
Hehehe — W. is on Deal or No Deal tonight;)
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.
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...
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...
W-i-d-e-U-R-L.com →
Thsi is too awesome for words.
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.
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...
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!
WatchHaha this is tooo funny — WiFi Detector Tee Shirt Dude at SXSWi 2008 on Flickr
Dear interwebs. . .
Please don’t be mad at me — I haven’t forgotten about you. Will write again soon.
Love, Josh
How sustainable are you? - Download Squad →
Hehe the freeze frame that starts this off is priceless. Nice, boys;)
6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rappers |... →
This is totally awesome;)
Jason, Steal My Co-Host →
DLS has the BEST shenanigans. EVER.
Breaking the Techmeme Habit - ReadWriteWeb →
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...
PR for Pirates →
Jeremy Bencken’s new blog (prepping the market for his next venture.) Lots of cool PR hacks to come!
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.”
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...
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
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till... →
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!
IBM and Linden Partner on Enterprise-Class Second... →
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....
Tumblr Image Viewer : burganprell →
Cool toy from topherchris — shows all of your Tumblr images;)
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.
Size Does Matter — Bigger Monitors Save 2.5 Hours... →
Self-control running low? | 43 Folders →
A great piece on some new research around how to actually get shizz done!
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;)
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;)
Analyst of the Year →
Vote for Redmonk and Guidewire!
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.