Archive for June, 2009

How to fail fast on Twitter: an easy-to-follow one-step recipe!

How to fail fast on Twitter: an easy-to-follow one-step recipe!

At last … the information you’ve always wanted: how to get un-followed on Twitter. If you use Twitter, you’re familiar with the following scenario: someone follows you, and you find out via email, or some other software you’re using for the purpose (unless you’re automating Twitter, which is usually a bad thing in itself,...
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Amsterdam

Early this week I had the chance to spend a day in Amsterdam on my way to Cairo for the Intel Learning Alliance Summit. Amsterdam is (of course) very beautiful, and it’s an amazing walking city. I took the train from Schipol airport to Amsterdam Centraal station, and then booked onto a canal tour....
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Time for futility and insanity

Time for futility and insanity

I have been reinvigorated lately by following Hugh McLeod, the Limey-turned-Texan artist, idea vendor, marketer, and self-described CDF (CrazyDerangedFool). In this economy and in the overwhelming crush of ideas and messaging, you have to be a little crazy, you have to be a little off-the-wall … you have to STAND OUT from the deafening...
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This ad agency “website” rocks my world

Some will hate it and some will love it. But many will talk about it: And yes, booneoakley.com translates to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elo7WeIydh8. Bold – very bold. (Saw it here.)
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Google Wave

If you were inventing email today … what would you make?
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