Software, Digital Content, Geopolitics, Economics & More from of a Libertarian Serial Expat and Entrepreneur
In: Uncategorized
10 Jul 2003VentureBlog: "The bigger issue raised is an important one for the blogging community — when, if ever, is something off the record for a blogger? I think for some bloggers the answer would be "never." For those of us who are blogging in the context of our businesses, there has to be some more pragmatic [...]
In: user experience
10 Jul 2003How long until the Google toolbar forbids ads from automatically starting with sound on?
In: best & worst practices|building online products|management & operations
10 Jul 2003Adaptive Path: "Every Web team has its own take on dividing up roles and responsibilities and implementing processes for design and development. Formal titles, job descriptions, and reporting structures can vary widely. But the best teams I’ve encountered have one important thing in common: their team structure and processes cover a full range of distinct [...]
"This Focused Performance Weblog is a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective. TOC is noted for its applications in Project and Multi-Project Management (Critical Chain) and Operations Management (Drum-Buffer-Rope), as well as in Marketing, Strategic Planning and Change Management (TOC Thinking Processes)."
Peter Merholz: "We assumed that, given the task of finding an appropriate digital camera, people would whittle down the attributes such as price, megapixel count, and brand, and arrive at the few options best suited to them. If they had questions along the way, they could read helpful guides that would define terms, suggest comparison [...]
In: search engines
6 Jul 2003On a small campaign I ran these last weeks: Search Ads: 4553 impressions, 141 clicks (3% CTR) Content-Targeted Ads: 25916 impressions, 22 clicks (0.1% CTR) I’m interested in hearing from advertisers now that there’s AdSense.
Six Apart: "Two recent releases that should be of interest to Movable Type users." Today I’ve installed both Zempt on my PC and MT Plugin Manager on our server. The former works fine and I think gained a permanent place in my system tray, while the later takes me to mode=get_master_list and gives me an [...]
In: politics
2 Jul 2003I just posted a story about the EU’s pretense at collecting VAT from foreign sites that sell digital goods and services, which somehow led me to the dissident frogman, to file along with Merde in France. I’d rejoice if this wasn’t a lost cause. Or rather I should say I decided I had better things [...]
In: software
1 Jul 2003Good idea from Dave Winer. That would be even more interesting to us if we could use it to synch a bunch of subscriptions among several users.
Our new site about internet marketing is live. We rushed through the last couple of days to get it done (thanks to John and Rick for pulling extra hours and making it happen) but we still have some kinks to fix (e.g. the whole newsletter subscription process needs to be streamlined, and the Adventive integration [...]
I'm CEO of an online trade publishing firm in the marketing and defense verticals. We try to make news and data digestible and useful in an environment that is more noisy each day. This personal blog mixes my thoughts and interests on politics, business, software, and more, based on my business and personal experiences. Over the years I have posted items that turned out spectacularly wrong, and a few posts that stood the test of times better. Personal views only.