What a long day of non-travel, this icy Valentine’s Day in New York! By 2pm today, I’d been booked on three different flights from New York to Orlando, each of them cancelled nearly as fast as I could reserve a seat on the next one. This day has spanned two airports and nearly four hours of driving, including near-collisions with three tractor trailers and ten passenger cars.… Read the rest
Category Archives: Fun & Random
Is Your Market-Research Survey Really A Negative Ad Campaign?
Let’s face it. If you respond to a survey these days, that makes you an anomaly.
Thanks to excessive commercial survey solicitations — interceptive, disruptive, too long and delivering little in return — consumers frequently avoid them with as much determination as they do advertising.… Read the rest
Are Conferences Odd?
Keith O’Brien says that conferences are odd:
… Read the restHaving spent half of my day at AlwaysOn (which my employer served as one of many sponsors), I find conferences odd. Maybe it’s because most of the people in attendance are not people I deal with on a daily basis.
2000 Bloggers: The Biggest Viral Blog Meme Since ‘Five Things You Didn’t Know About Me’
Tino Buntic’s neat 2000 Bloggers project has enticed a ton of bloggers – spanning A-list, B-list, C-list and whatever you call me – to leave a comment and become among the first two-thousand bloggers to comprise a big headshot-link mosaic.… Read the rest
Who Will Win High-Def DVD Format War? Ask The XXX Industry
My family moved into our new home over the weekend, so we’re in the home stretch toward getting some routine back in our lives. Living at Dad’s house in the guest (attic) bedroom over the past seven weeks has been great because our family is close, and there’s been lots of help with our son Julian (who’s now nearly ten weeks old).… Read the rest