RIP Bruce McMurray, 1932-2004. Silicon Valley pioneer.
Blogger James McMurray of Technology Deprecated wrote of his father: Bruce Milton McMurry died April 13, 2004 in Los Altos. Born 1932 in Covina. Bruce was an Eagle Scout and graduated high school in...
View ArticleEvent blogging wishlist, unrequited.
I edit EastBayKerry.com , a TypePad weblog. It's a dual-use site: evangelism with a public face for our group and political cause, and a work coordination site. From a September 2003 help desk ticket...
View ArticleLeFever wins first Weblog Perfect Pitch Competition.
I'm sure the folks at Pyra and MoveableType were winners with their own elevator pitches, but those were for tools. Lee LeFever won for the internal pitch, for the hey, boss, let's try this thing....
View ArticleSeven questions from Cleveland
I received this email from Anne Collingwood this morning. Phil, I am frustrated about the lack of attention the Internet is being given by the national campaign. I see the need, but I am clueless. I am...
View ArticleScale-hostile pricing: Movable Type maxes me out.
Capping the number of users at 20, the new Movable Type 3.0 release pricing structures me out of its market. Enterprise blogging is a team sport. So are grassroots, educational, and community...
View ArticleNick Berg Tops Searches, but Why?
Dan Gillmor wonders about blood lust as searches for the executed Nick Berg top the major search engines. So you're asking, why does traffic slow down at a car accident, why do people crowd a murder...
View ArticleWhy Sayers Wanted.
What's a "Why Sayer"? LEO says: I suspect it may be an attempt at a play on 'nay-sayers' -- people who never do anything but criticize. 'Why-sayers' is a coinage that emphasizes positive thinking,...
View ArticleCorporate Blogging - Blog as your Front Porch
Other metaphors I like... California bans smoking in office buildings. People slip out for a smoke and huddle around the doors or the ashtrays in smoker exile. For those 5-15 minutes, your small group...
View ArticleRapid Response: Memetic Engineering in the 2004 Presidential Campaign
I wrote Rapid Response: Memetic Engineering in the 2004 Presidential Campaign, my assessment of a new project from the John Kerry campaign. It's a recap of the political Rapid Response model, an...
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Rapid Response: Memetic Engineering in the 2004 Presidential Campaign (full...
Initiative. Voice. Democracy. We got'em. We're gonna use'em. John Kerry's Media Corps is a new site on JK.com. http://www.johnkerry.com/onlinehq/mediacorps/ From HQ to volunteers to the mediasphere....
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Phil's summer of F2F - Part 1
Dear Phil - Why should we conference in person when the virtual has been so enriched? The virtual's not that rich. The virtual's mainly broadcast. And you miss the interactions that occur during...
View ArticleConfab
The Social Tools in the Enterprise Symposium had fewer corporate attendees and more academics and consultants than I expected for a business conference. Then again, it's mid-July. Stowe Boyd was a...
View ArticleBlogging at work. Work at blogging.
This is not a peak hiring season. But there are jobs to be had in blogging. IMN is hiring an inside sales rep to work in Newton, Mass, selling blogging and newsreading tools. Siemens is looking for a...
View ArticleHire A. Fish, Bay Area software engineer
A smart, funny, articulate problem solver. Great blogger too. Her long time weblog. Her more recent blogging. I love Alison's O.U.! Officially Unemployed! post.
View ArticleBootcamp & Conference: BlogOn Half-Full
Ted Shelton: "Frankly I felt that BlogOn was a waste of time and money." I think the BlogOn conference was overproduced. In the name of professionalism the organizing firm turned off potential...
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