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Friday, May 16, 2003 |
 Wildflowers this year are the most glorious I can remember since we moved to the Bay Area. Tech stocks may still be in the dumpster, but there's more to life than money... right?Comments 12:31:02 PM 
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 New neighbor: this Australian Shepherd pup, as yet unnamed, just arrived up the street. I'm prejudiced, but, is there anything cuter than an Aussie pup?Comments 12:12:39 PM
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RIAA CEO Hilary Rosen: We love tech, really. The mind boggles... In that case, Hilary, could you do something about your damn bot... Comments 9:43:11 AM
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Dinner party at gulker.com tonite: I'll be cooking Provençal dishes in the new kitchen. Menu: fresh greens from dotcom garden in a warm mustard vinaigrette, Chicken Provençal (Daniel Bouloud's recipe), Tarte aux Pommes. Wine is a Chateauneuf-du-Pape... Comments 9:28:26 AM
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Search Results Clogged by Blogs: While many commercial websites struggle to be noticed, some bloggers are unintentionally attracting lots of hits. ""The Web is absolutely the great equalizer... Good content rises to the top on the Internet. It doesn't matter if the medium is a blog or a corporate Web page." From Wired News. There has been a call to remove Blogs from search engines... Maybe, instead, the commercial Web sites should note what's working... Comments 9:18:42 AM
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The Nigerian email scam blog. Pointer from Boing Boing... Comments 8:46:14 AM
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Big Brother welcomes you to the future: "Police and other officials are making around a million requests for access to data held by net and telephone companies each year" in the UK, according to The Beeb. The 'society of snitches' is upon us... Comments 8:42:59 AM
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Buzz vaccination: I think the tech bust amounted to a massive immunization of people against buzz. In the heady days, people eagerly scanned for the latest tidbit, the first murmur of the Next Big Thing.
They were ultra-susceptible. Almost any meme could get started, and sweep the population. All it took was a mention by one or more key sources, and sometimes, not even that much. The contagion threshold truly was some approximation of zero.
But the bust gave everybody a terrible headache, and a sense of "how stupid could we have all been?" A powerful antibuzz agent, skepticism born of embarrassment and financial loss, returned to its normal place in the population. Marketers need super-infectious memes if they are to have any hope to exploit the buzz channel these days. It has to be plausible, it has to be compelling, it has to make a lot of sense... |
Updated 4/16/04; 12:39:05 PM
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Chris Gulker'sUpdated 4/16/04; 12:39:05 PM
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