Plant Reflections

 

Business Porn (cont.)

gapingvoid: business porn (cont.)

Hugh Macleod gives a hilarious definition: "Business Porn is just like Ordinary Porn or Real Estate Porn, except instead of it being about the women we wished we could sleep with, or the houses we wish we owned, it's about all those cool, lucrative, exciting jobs and businesses that we wish we had, instead of the normal, tedious, schleppy crap most of us end up doing to pay the bills."

Holiday Decor

 

RadioShack’s Holiday Irrelevance

Brand Autopsy: RadioShack’s Holiday Irrelevance

John Moore comments smartly on Holiday advertising:

"If you are expecting a multi-million/multi-dimensional Holiday advertising blitz to make a brand relevant, then you should expect to fail. Businesses and brands are not made with heavy-up Holiday advertising. They are made with all the everyday marketing and business activities done in the many months before Christmas comes."

Swinging & Flying

 

In mapping our revolution, yesterday we went over to Bull Shoals to play and roast hot dogs and marshmallows! 

Mapping a revolution with 'mashups'

Mapping a revolution with 'mashups' | CNET News.com

This excellent article shows the direction of use of the Net:

"With such "mashups"--hybrid software that combines content from more than one source--digital maps are quickly becoming a centralized tool for countless uses ranging from local shopping and traffic reports to online dating and community organizing, all in real time and right down to specific addresses.

Online mapping is evolving into a historic nexus of disparate technologies and communities that is changing the fundamental use of the Internet, as well as redefining the concept of maps in our culture. Along the way, map mashups are providing perhaps the clearest idea yet of commercial applications for the generation of so-called social technologies they represent. "

Bud Bill

 

Beach Trees

 

Surf Bird

 

Shiny Curl

Wet Rocks

 

Big Rock

 

Misty Reflection

 

Eucalyptus Trees

 

Tall Trees

 

Overlooking Vallejo

 

This past weekend we flew out to Sacramento, drove to Fairfield, and then Stinson Beach for a Great Healing Adventure! 

Christmas Bauble Sneak Peak

 

Understanding Local Max

Seth's Blog: Understanding Local Max

Seth Godin points out the paradox and problem of the Local Max:

"Local Max isn't actually that great when you realize that Big Max is not particularly far away.

The problem is that to get to Big Max, you need to go through step C, which is a horrible and scary place to be."

As the leaves change, and the Christmas Season approaches, decorations appear on this Courthouse tree.  

Mainstream Media Meltdown

The Long Tail: Mainstream Media Meltdown II

Chris Anderson takes a look at the statistics as the seasons change for mainstream media.