WGBH is building a brand new $87M Headquarters. [here]
Maybe this is why their pledge programming is so awful.
Author: spierzchala
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$87M Headquarters = Lousy Pledge Programs
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Russell Beattie joins Yahoo! Full-Time
See Here.
Congrats Russell. I miss the valley and the cool companies that are there. But I am also not willing to move back to a place which is so hideously expensive, where the public education system is awful (parents are asked to supply basic supllies such as pencils, toilet paper, etc. because Propostion 13 has destroyed the California Education system), and the business ecology tends to be very inward-looking.
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Tablets! Everywhere! Must Flee!
First there was Scoble.
Now Jeremy Zawodny (I LOVE Polish names!) has spotted them at Yahoo!
The only two I see regularly belong to colleagues of mine, and neither of them is ever in tablet mode, that I have seen. -
If you work for Symantec and you are reading this blog…
…please drop me a line. I am seeing a large number of visits, and just wanted to know what makes this so interesting to you.
Now, I don’t go out of my way to say hello to all of my visitors, but this person visits very often! -
Caffeine Addiction
Darren Barefoot is attempting to give up his dependency on Caffeine. I commend his efforts.
I just discovered that the screaming headache I have had all day is due to a lack of caffeine. Two cups of Instant Coffee == No Headache.
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American Express engages in LCD marketing*
Joi Ito pointed me to the post about Ogilvy & Mather doing “bullshit marketing” for American Express.
American Express is a company I have a lot of respect for. But when they start treating their techno-savvy customers as complete doufi (plural of doufus), then they slide down into the morass of spam-spewing card purveyors that flood my snail-mailbox daily.
And Joi Ito gets asked to pimp stuff in his blog. I never get asked to pimp anything. 🙁
This is still circulating around the next. See more here.
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Difference of Opinion
Port80 Software in San Diego is a team who is dedicated to improving Web performance.
However, they just recommended Maxthon, which uses the MSIE engine. [here]
I can’t buy into that. It still uses a core browser which has been patched but has not evolved since 1999. Until Microsoft releases a browser that can handle HTTP Pipelining — don’t understand why it can’t do it…unless there is a technical reason — I will stick with Firefox. -
Online ads — What’s the big deal?
Ok, so I have both Kanoodle and Google Ads on my site. Total Revenue this far: $0.
I am not completely sure what the hoopla is. Then again, I get less than 200 hits a day. Guess that could be an issue…
Russell Beattie is back to Google. What’s your opinion?