Monthly Archives: October 2007

links for 2007-10-31

Ads And Business Pubs: Who’s Winning? - Silicon Alley Insider
“Tad Smith: Particularly in business media, we have far too many resources going to rewrite press releases.”
(tags: media journalism public-relations)

BlueBlog: PR Tips For Startups: How To Get And Keep The Media Attention
“There has been a trend lately of writing based on a press release.” Alex says: […]

Making Meaning with Marketing: Lois Kelly’s Beyond Buzz

After reading The Nine Best Story Lines for Marketing, I knew I had to read Lois Kelly’s Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing. It didn’t disappoint.
Kelly suggests that to succeed with marketing in this millennium you need to “make meaning, not buzz.” Buzz lacks authenticity and truth. Meaning speaks to people’s need to […]

links for 2007-10-26

The Outsourced Brain - New York Times
The Secret Order of the External Mind. I’m a member too.
(tags: extended-mind smart-world gps thinking)

The Migraine Diet - Judith Warner - Domestic Disturbances - Opinion - New York Times Blog
“Renouncing food, renouncing pills, is so often, in our time, seen as the right and righteous, pure and wholesome thing […]

links for 2007-10-21

Feedonomics » Blog Archive » There is no shelf
“knowledge is not an existing structure that we must discover and record, but rather a personal path that we construct.”
(tags: knowledge information information-overload video)

Leaving TechMeme | FactoryCity
Chris Messina: “I’m going to have to go back to piecing things together one by one on my own; digging up […]

links for 2007-10-20

loose wire blog: Sleazy Linkers Lose An Ally
(tags: bloggling links etiquette)

links for 2007-10-19

Catching Flack » Do’s and Don’ts for Analyst Briefings on BNET
Great tips from Cote’ on doing analyst briefings… I think a lot apply to briefing bloggers too, some of us are hybrid blogger/analyst/journalist/consultants.
(tags: analyst-biz briefings presentations public-relations)

0xDECAFBAD » Twitter’s Mojo Bubble
Les Orchard: “You should be absentmindedly emitting something barely edited and pondered from your stream […]

links for 2007-10-18

Serving Pasta? Forget What You Learned - New York Times
(tags: pasta cooking food italian tips)

Ed Levine’s New York Eats: Batali vs. Bittman Pasta Saucing Smackdown: Who’s Right?
(tags: food italian pasta batali bittman)

links for 2007-10-17

The FASTForward Blog » illumio – a Smart Content and Request Filter for Enterprise 2.0: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
(tags: toread enterprise2.0 collaboration social networking problem-solving social-search)

tecosystems » Control + Creativity or Control vs Creativity
“But in the end, creativity and control are, to me, likely to be mutually exclusive more often than not.”
(tags: […]

links for 2007-10-16

Video Chat Service Aims to Follow YouTube’s Path - New York Times
(tags: totry chat video)

When the PC becomes a parenting problem | CNET News.com
(tags: internet web family parenting)

ScienceDaily: Expecting An Afternoon Nap Can Reduce Blood Pressure
(tags: naps sleeping health)

Couch multitasking - Business Filter - The Boston Globe
(tags: couch multitasking work home)

Johnnie Moore’s Weblog: What we’re […]

Tell Me a Story, but Tell Me the Truth

Stephanie Booth has been reading Taleb’s The Black Swan and twittering her impressions. I had forgotten until she reminded me that Taleb spends ample time on the human tendency to engage in simplification and storytelling when trying to make sense of the world. Taleb calls journalists “industrial producers of the distortion” and says anecdotes sway […]