Disqus - Friends of MichaelvanLaar

Re: Your show is you. You are not your show.

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:22:37 -0000

Depends on who you ask, Bryan. For most people, it's Scott.

Re: Your show is you. You are not your show.

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:22:37 -0000

Depends on who you ask, Bryan. For most people, it's Scott.

Re: Your show is you. You are not your show.

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:43:22 -0000

Many thanks to you all for your kind words!

Re: StumbleUpon and Post-Dojo Thoughts

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:13:24 -0000

It's pretty much a blatant statement of "I pay no attention to anything around me".

Re: Noren: Your Reputation on a Sheet of Cloth

Christopher S. Penn — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 23:17:27 -0000

It is very much like a small town that remembers your past. Google's cache is exceptionally powerful like that. That's why if you're going to try on a new digital identity, be sure to keep it separate from your existing one entirely.

Re: Your show is you. You are not your show.

Christopher S. Penn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:35:57 -0000

Steve - I always appreciate your perspective on this stuff. I thought it was kind of goofy when you said as a sponsor of PodCamp that you subscribed to people, but as time has gone by, it now makes complete sense to me. Subscribing to people is almost like a meta-brand. No matter what shows they are, if they're by Steve Garfield or C.C. Chapman or Chris Brogan or any of the other folks I consider friends, they're going to be good shows.

The show metaphor is better than a podcast, that's for sure. At least when you say "I have a show", 70% of the population does not look confused.

Re: Your show is you. You are not your show.

Christopher S. Penn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 08:35:57 -0000

The show metaphor is better than a podcast, that's for sure. At least when you say "I have a show", 70% of the population does not look confused.

Re: PodCamp NYC Needs Your BRAIN

Christopher S. Penn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:11:56 -0000

CC - can you ask Cali what that tech was on their show? I can't find it quickly this AM.

Re: PodCamp NYC Needs Your BRAIN

Christopher S. Penn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:11:56 -0000

CC - can you ask Cali what that tech was on their show? I can't find it quickly this AM.

Re: PodCamp NYC Needs Your BRAIN

Christopher S. Penn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:12:34 -0000

I wonder - is there such a thing as multiplexing EVDO? If so, is it affordable to do so?

Re: PodCamp NYC Needs Your BRAIN

Christopher S. Penn — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 10:12:34 -0000

I wonder - is there such a thing as multiplexing EVDO? If so, is it affordable to do so?

Re: Video Inflection Point

Christopher S. Penn — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 01:03:57 -0000

In my line of work, I run into people all the time of varying backgrounds, and I can say this with a reasonable degree of confidence: the literacy level of the average person is declining. Each year, it seems like spelling gets worse, it seems like grammar degrades a step further, and people are less and less willing to read stuff (most especially those pesky loan disclosure terms).

I recently sat down next to a girl on a plane who explained to me succinctly why MySpace is hot and email is not - she navigates visually. Click on a person's face rather than try to remember what their email address is.

Video is garnering buzz faster than anything else because of a few factors, in my view. First, video is shorter than audio in terms of online content. The length of a video episode on average is much shorter than the length of an audio episode of a podcast. Second, video is incredibly familiar to most people - it's TV, only on a PC instead of a tube in the living room. Third, video tools out there make it incredibly easy to share, whereas audio tools and text tools do not. Finally, there's that whole literacy thing.

Views from the peanut gallery.

Re: Social media overload

Christopher S. Penn — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:54:13 -0000

Robert,

Here's my Yahoo Pipes config to make "custom twitter groups" in case there's something you want to pay more attention to.

http://www.christopherspenn...

Re: http://www.crayonville.com/blog/?p=212

Christopher S. Penn — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:54:21 -0000

Spending $10 to make $1 would get you kicked out of even the lowest quality business school.

Imagine if a charity published that 90% of your donation is chewed up by overhead? You'd never donate to that charity.

Now imagine that same charity was discovered funneling 90% of its donations to the wallets of large corporations. Would you donate?

That's what RED is. It's 90% overhead being funneled to corporate profits.

Re: http://www.crayonville.com/blog/?p=212

Christopher S. Penn — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:09:44 -0000

If you're going to buy something anyway, then I'd agree that having the option for an additional charitable contribution is fine. Ultimately, though I may be far too cynical, RED seems more about leveraging the charity concept to move product than it does to genuinely help, otherwise you'd probably want to funnel the marketing dollars into charity. If companies stopped all support for the RED campaign and instead donated just 20% of that ad spend, the people they're supposedly intending to help would be twice as well off. If you have $250 and your choices are to buy a new iPod nano for $249 with $24.99 going to charity, or not buying the thing at all and donating $30 to charity, clearly the charity's better off with the latter - and so are you, because you can write off the $25 as a tax deduction. You cannot write off purchases through RED because they're just consumption purchases, not donations.

Re: http://www.crayonville.com/blog/?p=212

Christopher S. Penn — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 09:33:04 -0000

The other aspect of this campaign which I think is more important is the idea that money is equal to charity, that you can shop your way to a better world. In many cases, there are a lot of people who want to help somehow, but don't have the financial resources to do so. Campaigns like RED reinforce the notion that charity is money, when in fact people can contribute time, energy, effort, labor, ideas, and sometimes just a shoulder to lean on. Many of the organizations I've been involved with in the past have needed people to volunteer more than cash by itself.

Re: Viral is not word of mouth

Christopher S. Penn — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:41:17 -0000

Wow. You guys are a lot more insightful than I am.

Re: Whoop Ass Over IP

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:39:10 -0000

Technically, I think it's a networking thing :)

Re: Whoop Ass Over IP

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:47:59 -0000

Eric: how could I not put at least a little bit of Ray in there somewhere?

Re: Tools I use on my Mac

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:54:05 -0000

I've tried QuickSilver a few times, and I've always found it to be more work than the task I was trying to accomplish in the first place.

Re: Tools I use on my Mac

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:54:05 -0000

I've tried QuickSilver a few times, and I've always found it to be more work than the task I was trying to accomplish in the first place.

Re: Whoop Ass Over IP

Christopher S. Penn — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:55:45 -0000

Chris Brogan: Actually, I do a fair amount of Photoshop and other graphic stuff in the day job, and have for years. It's not something I focus on, though, which is probably why you haven't seen as much of it from me until I got my own playground.

Re: I Still Like My Newspaper

Christopher S. Penn — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:23:34 -0000

We still have the theatre created thousands of years ago. To listen to the folks talking about Future 2.0, you'd think that the printing press, telegraph, telephone, television, VCR, email, Web, blogs, videos, DVDs, web cams, and Web 2.0 would have put the theatre out of business centuries ago.

Re: 6 Twitter Power Tips

Christopher S. Penn — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:39:49 -0000

Dan Johnson Jr:

The feed itself doesn't hyperlink URLs in it. For example, if you crack open the RSS:

Re: Cat blogging spaghetti sauce

Christopher S. Penn — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:56:52 -0000

Dale - you raise a good point, except for one thing. I had exactly two adult beverages in the house - a bottle of Riesling, and a bottle of tequila. I opted for the former!

The Riesling doesn't go in the sauce - it goes in YOU. :-)