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Re: LIer wakes up waiting room with show tune

obilon — Fri, 04 Oct 2013 10:08:08 -0000

I think it was all part of the act.

Re: Trump Announces His Candidacy, Friendship with 'The Blacks' - Politics - The Atlantic Wire

obilon — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 12:37:32 -0000

What a wackado. I can only think of one way to make that worse. Insert the word "coloreds" for "blacks" in his statement.

Re: Facebook’s Growing Role in Social Journalism

obilon — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:04:11 -0000

I don't know but the Rockville Central move seems like desperation rather than innovation. And with the TOS and ownership issues, it seems ridiculous to trust all their news information and content to another service without an agreement made between your news org and Face book beforehand. I'd hate to have Facebook be a possible censor of my news work. Facebook is great for distribution but to put your entire operation onto Face book is like giving the Teamsters who deliver your papers control over your news. Something doesn't jibe. Sounds almost like a stunt. But I could be wrong and that editor could be a genius.

Re: Is There A Difference Between Social Media And Social Networking?

obilon — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 10:23:19 -0000

You're probably right.

Re: Amazon: Kindle Books Now Outselling Hardcovers

obilon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:25:49 -0000

I'm really not surprised. I wonder how Kindle sales fares against paperback books. That's the test.

Re: If Optimum Online Email Goes Down And Cablevision Doesn’t Tell Me…

obilon — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:19:56 -0000

That's a good question. I guess a call or email to the BBB is a good start.

Re: If Optimum Online Email Goes Down And Cablevision Doesn’t Tell Me…

obilon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:27:02 -0000

I agree, David. I had to Google her to find out what she was about and it seems she has no expertise in her background to make that kind of claim. I found the same type of stuff you did and think she's more of a self promoter than any kind of expert to weigh in on the matter.

Re: If Optimum Online Email Goes Down And Cablevision Doesn’t Tell Me…

obilon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:40:54 -0000

Good idea!

Re: If Optimum Online Email Goes Down And Cablevision Doesn’t Tell Me…

obilon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:39:34 -0000

This morning when I still couldn't access my email I too thought that my email account had been hacked. Especially after I went to the Optonline home page and didn't see anything there about an outage a day after it first happened.

Re: If Optimum Online Email Goes Down And Cablevision Doesn’t Tell Me…

obilon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:13:06 -0000

I checked too and my email is definitely not back up. Maybe sporadically people are getting emails but it's definitely not back up.

Re: If Optimum Online Email Goes Down And Cablevision Doesn’t Tell Me…

obilon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:55:30 -0000

I agree that a one-liner at the very least could have saved them thousands of phone calls and all this backlash.

I actually did hear from a Newsday person who said they are working on a story this morning. I'm waiting to see if a link to a story shows up.

Re: If Optimum Online Email Goes Down And Cablevision Doesn’t Tell Me…

obilon — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:48:38 -0000

I didn't even realize how big of a problem this is for Cablevision. People saying that the whole northeast email system is down. Seems to me that a problem this big at least deserves some sort of message to the public via their website. Seems antiquated that the only message they get out is an automated one on their call in customer service line that is constantly busy and hangs up on you once you do ever get through.

Re: Community Banks On The Social Web

obilon — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:46:21 -0000

Hi Robert, You can view most of the articles I have written on social media and banking from my links here: http://delicious.com/obilon... - Lon

Re: http://www.musicvagabond.com/post/677233466

obilon — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 16:28:11 -0000

I like it. Reminds me of Madonna when she was breaking the rules back in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A very moody, cyberpunk/goth look and feel with a dance beat. I think the video also nods to NIN's videos look and feel, especially Head Like A Hole and Closer. I think that as an all around musician and trend setter in pop music, Lady Gaga is up there with the best of them including Madonna and MJ.

Re: 3 Ways BP is Making You Look Stupid Investing With Options

obilon — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 09:25:06 -0000

I agree with your second point. This event is probably the fault of more than just BP and a deeper investigation of others who are responsible is needed. There will probably be plenty of blame to spread around. On your third point I hope you are wrong. It's too early for either the administration or the public to say "we're done with oil forever because of the BP disaster" but if this doesn't inspire both the government and the public to take a long hard look at our energy policy. We need to get off the "oil crackpipe."

On your first point, I'm torn. It goes along with your third point. Perhaps we're not ready to tear ourselves away from oil but any way you look at it (environmentally, economically, politically, human rights) oil trade is doing horrible things to this world. We will not eliminate any risk as long as we rely on oil. We drill at home and we are screwing up the environment. We buy from OPEC and we're supporting governments who are obviously supporting terrorism and anti-Americanism.

It's a choice between Scylla and Charybdis. I don't know which I feel more comfortable with. I'd like to think there's a third choice like in Captain Kirk took in Star Trek's Kobayashi Maru test: Just bypass the whole no-win scenario. ;)

Re: Google Cloud Print Reveals the Future of Printing

obilon — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 14:48:19 -0000

I don't know why, but I just really like this person's comment.

Re: 6 Ways Law Enforcement Uses Social Media to Fight Crime

obilon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:12:06 -0000

I would say the same for police that I usually say for any other account to verify if it's authentic. Before there was the Verified badged on Twitter, I'd go to the official website for that person or organization. Ex. If you want to know if a local police force's Twitter account is authentic, go to their official webpage and look for a link to a Twitter account from there. That would be the official one. If you don't find a link then be suspicious.

Really for any organization (especially government and emergency services) when engaging in social media they absolutely must make sure there's a clear link from their official site (preferably on their home page in a visible area) to all their social media accounts so people don't waste time hunting down and worrying about authentication.

Re: Facebook Starts Sending Page Admins Weekly Stat Reports

obilon — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:26:21 -0000

I got mine last night and thought it peculiar because I'd never seen it before. I thought that maybe I was missing something. I hate when companies do these things without an announcement first. A short email telling me they were going to start would be nice so I could look out for it. Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to have it. Hope they add more analytics soon.

Re: The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

obilon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:08:04 -0000

I'd also like to see more about those active 21% of users. What is the true psychographic of those users? What are their habits, uses, etc. I attempted to define some of those in my Mashable post here: http://mashable.com/2009/04... but I had no numbers to support it. I'd like someone to get that data and turn them into a report about how people act on twitter, profile them and provide true numbers to back that up. Up to now it's all speculation. I can't believe that with all the collected data there's no packaging that Twitter has done to offer to advertisers (or potential advertisers). Any media company would give you psychographics of their users/readers/viewers and Twitter should be no exception.

Re: The Truth About the Average Twitter User [STATS]

obilon — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:00:59 -0000

I would also like to see more research into the activity and psychographic of that activity on the active 21%. Of those, how many are brands, how many are just pushing out RSS feeds, how many RT, how many get retweeted, how many cross over from one social media website to another, etc. If you pare it down you'll probably have a much smaller number of "true" twitter users - those who use it to engage and have conversations rather than those spreading messages.

Re: The 10 Annoying Phrases You Need To Stop Using.

obilon — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:16:11 -0000

I hate to disagree with you but "that's what she said!" can still be mighty funny in the right situation. Just sayin' homey.

Re: The reason why your personal brand sucks

obilon — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:32:18 -0000

Great post, Chris. I'm one of those people that can't put my finger on what it is that defines my personal "brand" or "essential quality" as you put it. To quote Popeye: I y'am what I y'am." :) But your post put down in words and with a great example of your self what everyone should be doing, which is figuring out out most essential qualities. Best piece of advice here in your post is that it takes time. Maybe years to figure it out. But to toss out another quote: The unexamined life is not worth living.

Thanks for a really insightful post, Chris.

Re: Clueless Woman Calls Tech Show When Her Stolen Wi-Fi Disappears [VIDEO]

obilon — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:53:38 -0000

Define: steal.

Re: Personal Email Marketing: The Job Hunt and the Welcome Message

obilon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 09:12:39 -0000

Great advice, Chris.

Re: 7 Things to Consider for Social Media in the Enterprise

obilon — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:26:11 -0000

Thank you. Yes changing internal culture is a big challenge but we saw this piece as a CIO service article and that seems to be more of a communications/marketing concern that would be directed at management along with the CIO.