Archive for July, 2006

Farewell to InfoRouter

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Seems that Steve Gillmor is closing down his ZD blog and is getting to work on Gilmor3.0 (pardon the pun). He is required reading and listening (Gillmor Gang) for me. While I am going to really miss his commentary and observations, it is very cool to see him coming out ...

My old shop rocks

Friday, July 28th, 2006

So the guys from my old shop have developed another amazing microsite for Sony Vaio. Shot on green screen, probably using HD and a sick edit/motion graphics/Flash build. When I was working at iNDELIBLE we did more than a few of these, all of which were great - but nothing like ...

Eric Rice discusses blogospheric PR problems and Second Life

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

Eric Rice is one of the interesting folks I met at Gnomedex this year. Very cool guy. Doing a TON of stuff - podcasting, Hipcast, and a lot of work in Second Life. I am still trying to figure out how he does all of this on a daily basis. ...

Microsoft - Stop Making Fun of Us

Saturday, July 22nd, 2006

Thanks to Scoble for finding this gem: http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=218493 I love Ad parodies, and this is a great 'hack' of the current MS vs. MAC ads running out there now. Now I am a PC guy, but my buddies David and Ace have me thinking more and more about getting a MAC. click thru ...

I love Akismet

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Below, please find a screenshot from the WordPress Dashboard showing what Akismet is doing. I love Akismet SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "I love Akismet", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2006/07/15/i-love-akismet/" });

Stories like this make it hard to convince clients to blog

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

So Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine (required reading as far as I am concerned) posts the following: Well, golly, look at this. I get a comment‘ on the post below from someone who says he’s working for Dell: Hey Jarvis. I honestly think you have no life. Honestly? Do you have a life, ...

Second Life Rising - “We did MySpace about two years ago, but … I think it’s a little too mainstream now.”

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

Great article in AdAge about Second Life. http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=110404  What's special here is us participating in a new phase of the social-networking evolution," said Mr. Schionning.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Second Life Rising - “We did MySpace about two years ago, but … I think it’s a little too mainstream now.”", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2006/07/11/second-life-rising-we-did-myspace-about-two-years-ago-but-i-think-its-a-little-too-mainstream-now/" });

i gotta start using flickr

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

As seen on my way to the bus last week in the town of Pallisades Park... I need to start a Flickr account. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "i gotta start using flickr", url: "http://www.seanbohan.com/2006/07/09/i-gotta-start-using-flickr/" });

Clueless marketing

Friday, July 7th, 2006

Tom Hespos discuss another member of the Coalition of the Clueless: One of the challenges I face in pitching Conversational Marketing to clients is the notion of finding bloggers who will take up the task of blogging about the client's business. Paramount is lucky to find not one, but several. And ...

I Love Unconferences (and disagree with Virtual Dave)

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Dave Winer blogs about about Richard McManus's comments about Bloggercon: BloggerCon IV tended to favor the most vocal people. I agree, and this is not the way it's supposed to be. I don't think the DLs took the guidelines seriously in this area, and unless they do, the unconference format ...