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Archive for April, 2003
Perception, often, is reality
Saturday, April 19th, 2003Thomas Secker. “If you would not step into the harlot’s house, do not go by the harlot’s door.” [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
Oh Dear God
Saturday, April 19th, 2003I was beginning to respect this weblog. Now I have to wonder.
Am I the only one who misses this guy?
Color me silly, but in reviewing the neurotic/psychotic models of leadership, I’d rather have a fiscally responsible sex addict than a pathological narcissist with an unbearable sense of entitlement in the White House.
maybe it’s just me.
[allied]
CNN Obits
Saturday, April 19th, 2003Holy Shit–Did I Blow it for CNN, or am I Just Brilliant?. From The Smoking Gun Today
From Jeneane Yesterday
Yah, it’s happened before, me and my ideas. But rarely fewer than 24 hours apart.
While all news organizations prepare obituaries in advance of the deaths of famous individuals, the folks at CNN inadvertently gave the Internet-surfing public a chance to preview how the network’s web site would note the demise of Vice President Dick Cheney, Ronald Reagan, and a few other prominent figures.
The good folks on Fark apparently found the obituaries.
I’m Spooked. Too bad they didn’t have Jako.
[allied]
Target Data Mining
Saturday, April 19th, 2003“let’s do some data mining”. My sister is getting married on June 1st, and she’s just started a registry on target.com (at my suggestion, since… [mamamusings]
RIP: Sergeant Riayan Tejeda, United States Marine Corps
Saturday, April 19th, 2003At Journey’s End, a Marine Is Mourned. The ripples caused by the deaths in this brief war have changed lives in Mosul, in London, and, with Sgt. Riayan Tejeda’s death, in Washington Heights. By Dan Barry. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Weblogs as Brand
Saturday, April 19th, 2003Let’s use a weblog to build a brand….
A few people — like Joshua over at the Boston Globe — keyed into the fact that I got my job partly because of my weblog.
My number one advice to everyone around me who is laid off is “teach us something.”
Why is this so important? Well, you are a brand. That’s a Tom Peterism to be sure, but it’s true.
How do you get to be better known in the industry? Teach!
Why do I think Don Box is the geek god of all gods? Because he got up on stage, time after time after time (sometimes naked even!) and taught thousands of people all sorts of things.
Listen, if you’re laid off, you have a choice. Do I just sit on the couch and watch Oprah, or do I do something with my life?
Why not write a tip a day until you get a new job? Teach us something useful. Maybe nobody will point to it. Maybe no one will care. But, let’s say you’re laid off for three months, you’ll have published about 90 tips.
At least you’ll have something to look back on and feel proud about after you get your job. Now, compare that to watching Oprah. You haven’t left any of your knowledge here. You haven’t helped your “brand.”
Netscape.com Goes Away
Saturday, April 19th, 2003one more nail pounded through the dessicated corpse of Netscape….
A Reliable Informant tells me that all email addresses ending in “netscape.com” will be going away within the next week or so: everyone in the Netscape division will now be required to use AOL Mail!
Presumably the “mozilla.org” folks will be able to hang on to those addresses, but damn. As I understand it, AOL mail doesn’t even have folders, and the maximum data retention is some small number of days: after that, your mail just vaporizes. Whee!
By jwz@jwz.org. [jwz]