Verizon Fios Redirection Problems

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Verizon has decided that it knows how best to redirect my typos - right to a Verizon yahoo page.
I didn’t ask for this nor do I want it. It wasn’t clear in any TOS that I […]

Conversation Feeds

Dennis McDonald writes about Speedbumps on the Way to Creating a Blog Based Micro-Community. He describes how he and another blogger tried to create a conversation across two blogs and then integrate the posts and comments into one single conversation supported by a feed.
He wants what I call a conversation feed. I […]

Social Capital - The benefits of participation

Tara Hunt has an excellent post on Social Capital over at Horse.Pig.Cow.
the key to attracting and keeping members of a community is to offer them heaps of ways to accrue Social Capital within it. That is, to offer them more connections, more influence, more of a chance to grow their reputation, more bridging capital, more […]

We Are The Ultimate Teflon Candidate

TechPresident has an excellent set of observations about the brand building happening with the Obama campaign. In The Marketing of the President 2008 - they point out that the focus is not so much on Obama as it is on Hope and Change.
The Obama campaign is not selling Obama. It is not selling a […]

More evidence that Obama represents something big

I got involved with Twitter this weekend - I was surprised to find it engaging. I saw this on their blog.

Seems to me that Obama represents something big. (BTW - I did vote for him because I think we don’t need more Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton legacy going on. Hillary has brains and […]

This is becoming a movement


We are the ones we have been waiting for!

Barack Obama may have tied Hillary Clinton in the votes and in the delegate count, but it seems to me that is a victory for his campaign. He had a great line in his speech that played to the idea that it’s not him, but us:
We are the ones we have been waiting for!
Powerful […]