Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Due to technical difficulties yet to be determined, the RexBlog is not picking up my daily post that aggregates (or, perhaps, aggravates) the bookmarks I add to what is now the less-dotted web service, Delicious.com (formerly del.icio.us). You can still find the bookmarks at the easier-now-to-remember-and-spell-address: Delicious.com/rexblog or any of the social networking, lifestreaming, RSS-reading...
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
If you follow my link blog, you may have caught my comments about the “Anquilla-based” “magazine-sharing” website, Mygazines.com. For the record, technically, what is being shared are PDFs of magazines and magazine articles, not actual magazines. My comments have basically been, “I wonder when they’ll be shut down.” Last week, Folio: reported that the [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
I’m interupting my practice of not blogging about the launching and shuttering of magazines because news about 8020 Publishing “suspending” Everywhere Magazine is going to be interpreted in lots of different ways by those in the magazine industry — so I decided to jump in early with my 2¢ worth. Here’s my take: 1. The suspension does [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
“Technology is a glittering lure, but there is the rare occasion when the public can be engaged on a level beyond flash if they have a sentimental bond with the product.” – Don Draper, creative director, Sterling Cooper I’ve buried the lede in this post — Somewhere down below, I’m going to have the audacity to [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 08/01/2008
Many times, when I post one of these rants about the way reporters write about statistics (especially statistics about the economy), I refer (negatively) to the “on-the-other-hand” crutch nearly all business-related stories now include. History buffs will recognize this as a reference to a Harry Truman quote: “Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Philipp Lenssen has a post that displays some hilarious image results that are occurring on Cuil.com, the heavily financed new search engine that all those mean bloggers are ganging up on. Philipp’s results are so amusing, I thought I’d do another ego search on my name to see what happens. And whoa, the screen-grab below is [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
A little less than an hour ago, I received a phone call from my 17-year-old son who is attending a month-long program at the University of Southern California. “There was just an earthquake” he said. “I’m okay,” he said. “It was legit.” I’m not sure exactly what the legit part was referencing. My mind was [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Pardon me while I place two historic firsts in the record. Early this morning, my wife starts off a conversation with, “I disagree with something you wrote on your blog.” “When did you start doing that'” I respond. “Disagreeing with you'” “No, reading my blog?” Second, today Gawker placed the phrase “Media and Marketing Guru” in front [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
You don’t need me to tell you that Seth Godin is a brilliant marketer. He sees marketing lessons in all of life’s journey. And because his lessons about marketing are shared with parable-like simplicity, even people like me can understand them — and be inspired. Today, he’s having a little fun demonstrating how people will [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Earlier today, I out-sourced to Danny Sullivan a review of the new search engine, Cuil.com. In a comment on that post, Bob Sacks (BoSacks) observed that he uses an ego search to decide if a search engine is any good. That makes sense to me. If I want to find out about someone, chances are [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
During the past week, I have become a fan of the AMC series Mad Men. It’s well written, directed and acted and captures the zeitgeist of an era that I find fascinating. (For anyone watching the program, I would have been about the age of the Draper’s daughter at the time during which the show [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
When I see a new online service announced, say, Cuil, a new search “challenger” to Google, I typically go to the site and click around. Seeing what it is, I seek the insight of someone I know follows closely the developments in that category. For instance with anything related to search, I look for what [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
There is a tiny percentage of Americans who feel about their Sunday New York Times the way Charlton Heston used to feel about his guns. Those people love nothing more than to spend a Sunday morning sipping coffee and getting their fingers ink-stained. I used to be that way. It was about as wonderful an [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Alan Kay (who I’ll get back to in a moment) is credited with a great quote: “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” I’ll add to what Alan said: The second best way is to keep predicting it until someone else gets around to inventing it. And the third best way is [...]
Rexblog.com (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Google is oogling over its numbers today. Not the numbers related to financial performance, but the numbers that math majors get goose bumps about. Granted, I may be misinterpreting what exactly the Google blog post is reporting, but I think it says that when Google started 10 years ago, they could index 26,000,000 web pages [...]
