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Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:00 PM
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When I was younger (and quite frankly had more spare time on my hands) one of my favorite things to do was surf the Internet looking for new, innovative software programs to play with. The early days of shareware were great for that. That’s Read More...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 6:48 AM
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Todd Defren wrote an excellent posting on "What I wish my new employee knew" and I couldn't have described it any better. What resonated the most with me were these few: I wish my new employee knew that some clients are a-holes, and some clients are incredibly Read More...
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Friday, March 28, 2008 7:17 PM
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It's so rare to find a "hack" that doesn't purport to hate PR people, that reading Dan Lyon's (aka Fake Steve) Q&A made my day. Oh, and the reference to a Waggener Edstrom person is putting pressure on a certain individual to deliver. There is an Read More...
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Monday, February 04, 2008 6:59 PM
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I love spending time with smart people. I learn a lot, and the conversation somehow makes you smarter, kind of like listening to Mozart. That's how I feel when I talk to Melvin Yuan , who recently joined us as lead for our Digital Strategies Group in Read More...
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Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:43 PM
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I really like this new site BigThink , which features specially filmed videos in a documentary, talking head style based around themes such as Faith & Beliefs, Love & Happiness, Science & Technology, and so on. You are then encouraged to post Read More...
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Monday, January 07, 2008 9:52 PM
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The Peter Principle states that "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." A generalized version of it states that "anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails." We see Read More...
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Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:39 PM
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A recent news scandal in China has been the purported discovery of fake steamed pork buns made out of minced corrugated cardboard, and the subsequent confession from the journalist that the story was falsified . But the scandal continues, because some Read More...
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Friday, July 20, 2007 9:50 PM
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The big news today is the Chinese media and blogosphere's reaction to a German-made t-shirt with an offensive tag line. A t-shirt from Germany with the words “F-U-C-K You China” and “Manufactured in Europe” printed on the front has caused a furore in Read More...
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Monday, July 09, 2007 7:53 AM
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Just returned from an offsite in Bangkok with the Waggener Edstrom Asia team. Much fun was had by all, with a team-building romp around Bangkok modeled on the "Amazing Race." What I've learned on this trip: Singaporean ladies love to shop Hong Kong ladies Read More...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:35 PM
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I'm absolutely thrilled that we have David Almacy join my company Waggener Edstrom as VP North America for the Digital Strategies Group. David was the former director of Internet and E-Communications for the White House so he certainly brings a lot of Read More...
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Monday, May 21, 2007 1:48 AM
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My colleague Jackson Jeyanayagam forwarded this eMarketer article on the growing amount of eyeball time for non-TV devices. Still, there are interesting factors to consider in Asian culture and how this impacts us. For example, it’s a very common practice Read More...
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Friday, May 11, 2007 11:43 PM
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Josh Hallett has a funny post about corporatespeak in press releases . My favorite is: They Write: Our general counsel assures me... We Read: The general counsel is pushing me to the wolves while he escapes to Brazil. I'm the first one to admit, in many Read More...
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Sunday, April 08, 2007 12:33 AM
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There's been so much blog traffic about the recent incident where my company, Waggener Edstrom, was reported as having accidentally forwarded the "dossier" on journalist Fred Vogelstein of Wired magazine to him. I think my colleague Frank Shaw did a good Read More...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:48 PM
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Excellent posting from Mark Chandler, Cisco's SVP and General Counsel, on their lawsuit with Apple over the iPhone trademark. Chandler's posting was clear, authentic, factual, and struck just the right note of indignation. You couldn't do this with a Read More...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006 10:27 PM
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James Belcher, an analyst with eMarketer, makes an interesting point in a recent article about the decline of old media, where he says: For one, all the alarmist claims that digital video recorders and video-on-demand will cause the death of TV and the Read More...
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