Bookmarks for 02/18/2010

Even when I don't have time to write I still read. Here are bookmarks I've saved in Delicious.

Bookmarks for 11/14/2009

Even when I don't have time to write I still read. Here are bookmarks I've saved in Delicious.

Bookmarks for 03/10/2009

Even when I don't have time to write I still read. Here are bookmarks I've saved in Delicious.

Bookmarks for 02/11/2009

These are my links for 02/10/2009 through 02/11/2009: David Risley dot com – Six Figure Blogger, Blog Marketing, Making Money Online, Social Media – Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction? (GOOG) – Copyfight: the politics of IP – HP On The Cloud: 'The World Is Cleaving In Two' — Cloud Computing — InformationWeek – Twitter [...]

Viral Enemies

I'm a little disturbed at the inability to actually name our enemies. First of all, "enemy" has somehow become archaic in today's media. It's lost, way behind "militant", "insurgent", and "criminal" in reference to, well, our enemies. Complicating this is our country's incompetent, ignorant, and arrogant leadership, who will sacrifice American interests and lives to [...]

Formula Blog

Eventually, everything gets reduced to a formula of some kind, including art and writing. The formulas generally come from marketing professionals who see dollar signs from mass producing whatever the popular trend is of the day. I'm afraid blogging is coming down to this. The latest buzz in the business world is for businesses to [...]

The E-Commerce Rut

A new study (like one of those doesn't pop up every day) shows that ten percent of the world's population has actually spent money online. "We wanted to know how far the Internet had gone beyond the simple exchange of information and were extremely surprised," said Bhawani Singh, managing director of consumer research at ACNielsen [...]

The Road to Investors

Sifting through my email, I noticed a recurring question: "What the hell have you been doing?" Sorry the posts have been few and far between. This is primarily due to several business-related reasons. The largest time-sucker has been my involvement in a super-secret company. I've partnered with a friend of mine to put together a [...]

Fake Virus = Bad PR

This is from last week, but I didn't get a chance to finish until today. Pretend you're in a room full of marketing executives and one of them suggests that you create a fake computer virus to promote one of your products. Yes or no? I think it depends on whether or not you consider [...]