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Not loving the core product… (A Hugh MacLeod story: Part I)
I’m often hit by a strange realization; I almost always like the least popular product of a sucessful company. Yes, I’m the one that drinks Cherry Coke, liked the McRib and bought a Smart car! At best I love something before everyone else or long after they’ve left it.
Mr Hugh MacLeod (or Mr gapingvoid) is a case in point…
Hugh’s blog says, rightly, that he’s a …
“…cartoonist and professional blogger, known for his ideas about how “Web 2.0″ affects advertising and marketing.”
Now all this is true except that I don’t like the cartoons too much and his blog is about marketing. I read the blog and smile at the cartoons as Hugh publishes them; but they don’t tend to connect. I’m not in marketing and I’ve not spent too long in any New York bars!
However, Hugh has a more minor product that I adore. Pure art! Things like this…
gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: the cloud’s best-kept secret
There is something about these works that I love. I have a collection on my hard-drive; it’s difficult to describe but they touch something deep inside me.
The earlier this year Hugh announced that he was going to be doing more of these larger works. And started showing pictures of Fred 42.
I had to act quickly. How I did is for Part II.
How cool is this…
Answer: Very!
I heard about it on Twitter…
Years ago at dinner parties people used to discuss where they were when they learnt about X or Y. In years to come I can imagine everyone just replying “oh, on twitter”. We Read Twitter So You Don’t Have To: NASA finds water on Mars, Web 2.0 credits Twitter
How to kill your blog…
What is the point of having a blog when the posts say something like this…
“I give some of my key learnings from what I learned from my time at PodTech over on FriendFeed.”
Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Podtech sold «
I don’t want to Scoble bash (not now anyway) but this is a joke.
Cost cutting…
So it isn’t just me. I hate it when you go to a hotel, restaurant or the office and find that they’ve cut back on something and “forgotten” to tell me.
“In my mind, a brand is built on a historic value proposition that builds a certain loyalty. If you start messing with the perceived benefits, those adjustments can’t do anything but hurt the long-term interest of the business. I understand the need to be frugal, but I wish decision-makers had a better sense of what matters in the customers’ eyes.”
tompeters! management consulting leadership training development project management
Knol off to a great start…
…with people writing articles about themselves and then giving themselves 5 star ratings!
Rachel Marsden – a knol by Rachel Marsden
Makes you wonder if knol can scale quickly. After all Wikipedia had a lot of organization in place when it became mainstream. Google can’t do anything low key these days and therefore they need to move quickly to get a board and reviewers in place.
Maybe they need to buy Mahalo just to get their hands on the resources.
Speechless…
Paris in August…
I moved to Paris in July 1996 and all I can remember is the heat. Day after day of sun baked streets and each evening the heat of the tarmac as it released the heat that it has stored during the day.
Paris is quieter during the summer; however it would be greater without all the English tourists!!!
For the opposite view… Le Blagueur à Paris: Like a bear in a cave, but with sun
This is what we’ll loose…
When we discuss what we’ll loose with the en of “fair use” we other think of research and another “important” stuff. What I fear deep down is that we’ll loose this…
Hectic City – The Kleptones blog & podcast » Blog Archiv » Festivalia!