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http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000667050432/

I didn’t think it was possible, but his followup is even better than the post that started the discussion.

And like personal blogs, tens of thousands if not more will stay on as labors of love that we enjoy because of their creativity

So in about 3 years, the Podcast phenomena will have run its course and will just be a normal part of the digital media landscape

Just like streaming.

-Mark Cuban

From Eric S. Raymond’ s Armed and Dangerous

I explained that I have no desire to punish the perpetrators of 9/11; what I want is vengeance and death. Vengeance for us, death for them. Whether they experience ‘punishment’ during the process is of little or no interest to me.

From Don Park’s Daily Habit

As I have written before, we are all soldiers on the frontline of battle against terrorism, a line made up of billions of people. There is no similar line on the other side, just an expanse of impenetratable darkness

Both brilliant. Both guys are required reading for me (I wish blogging was ESR’s daily habit!). ESR’s post actually was written a few days before the 7/7 bombing.

so I started customizing the templates, adding content and buttons/badges and…

something broke. Gonna take some time tomorrow to fix it.

Just downloaded RSS Bandit. This is an aggregator developed by a Microsoft programmer named Dare Abesanjo. It really is well done. Importing works like a dream but managing opml feeds is a little kludgy (I forced myself to finally organize my feeds instead of just having them in a looooong list – had a prob with RSS Bandit moving multiple feeds – I could only move one at a time)

It is veeeeery slick. you can see new feeds by category (which is sweet) as well as view the feed info or jump right to the site.

There used to be an extension for firefox but something broke from 8.0 to 9.0 – that would be sweet for 1 click subscription.

PPZT sometimes takes away what is going on

Mind Manager – Hobie

Organizing information that make sense
OPML – simple and powerful

Information Mapping
Blogging raises visibility
customers have a way to talk to them
employees have a way to talk to each other
Buzz was the one who brought him (big connector)

11 yo co.
20mil in sales this year
gradual and steady growth

CRM solution – not how they grow
WOM – adds value – people are advocates

Why use their wares
1. people dont think linearly
2. think by association (relationships, patterns)
3. Think then drag then drop
4. branch structure
5 access linked info
6
not ppt – where are we in the presentation/our thinking
cust tell where people think

pub as word/ppt export to xml, or shtml, or other pm tools

place to go before you go to think about things

295 bucks

Back in the saddle – just got through with the week of work between my two weeks of vacation – brutal brutal brutal.

Back to it now

Gnomedex starts in 3 days!

Met the guys from the band BUNNY tonight. These kids (yeah, I feel like I am 100 years old) are a great rock band from Ireland. Or they are an Irish Band that Rocks.

The ‘gang’ is working with the band to improve their profile and get their U.S. activities together. These guys have a great deal of potential. Tons of ideas brewing…

Some things to remember:

A. Korean barbecue is amazing (first time – wow)
B. Steve needs to stop showing people that video on his phone (dont ask)
C. The inside cover of their second album is killer
D. Need to think about putting together a website for them for the USA including some kinda blog (thanks dreamhost), Podcasting, Creative Commons their music to make it podsafe… and ways to get these guys more gigs.
E. I need to stop working on my vacation