After watching the highlights of The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher’s interview with Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone (at The Four Seasons in Carlsbad, CA) it would almost seem that the guys behind one of the fastest growing information distribution networks in the world simply stumbled into this and are [...]
Entries from May 2009
The Twitter Guys At All Things D
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Business · Technology
Chopping Down Dead Trees
May 25th, 2009 · No Comments
Yesterday I killed off more than 100 old books and transported their analog corpses in a stolen suitcase to a lonely loading dock behind the library and dumped them. Now, thinking back, I can’t help but feel badly about it. To me books always hold more than the stories in them. They hold my memories [...]
Tags: Books
The Outsourced Tweet?
May 20th, 2009 · No Comments
Got this tweet today from Circe Wallace at @CirceSnow. It appears that she is not exactly happy with something someone else tweeted for her suggesting she was exhausted after snowboarding at Jackson Hole with T-Rice. I don’t know who was tweeting for Circe if those weren’t her “own words,” but it is something to think [...]
Tags: Media · Technology
Yosemite Falls, May 8, 2009
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Tags: Travel
The Downside Of Screwing Good Customers
May 12th, 2009 · No Comments
I’ve worked in media long enough to know that a business’ best customers are often the easiest to extract money from, but in a time when tracking ROI is so simple I would think that customers who are easily retained should get the best deals. Because, quite literally, they cost less. Unfortunately, that idea has [...]
Tags: Media
