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Re: 30 Thoughts At 30,000 feet

Leigh — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:56:30 -0000

For the guy who stopped at 3 you missed this:

"One day I want to sit next to Peter Rojas on a cross country Virgin America flight and play with his gadgets"

:)

Re: Thoughts on New Hamphsire

Leigh — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:25:01 -0000

In dec last year, I was in NYC for business and my husband similarly was in Atlanta. Both of us ended up having political temperature check discussions with our African American cab drivers. What we found interesting was that both of them were voting for Hilary. Actually, that's not true. Even more fascinating, was that both were actually voting for Bill AND Hilary and both said the exact same thing only in slight different ways...

America is in big trouble. We don't need a rookie. Obama = Rookie / Hilary = Hilary AND Bill and Bill = successful presidency = prosperous America

So looks like at least Hilary's got the North and South African American cab driver votes wrapped up.

Re: Something Important Is On The Horizon In The Music Business

Leigh — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:48:07 -0000

Radio has always had its place and while this might be the evolution of radio, i have doubts of it being the 'future' of music.

In the words of Gil Scott Heron, "the revolution will not be televised. The revolution will be live."

(Jay Z Live Nation deal anyone?)

Re: Do You Ever Want To Temporarily Unfollow On Twitter?

Leigh — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:57:02 -0000

Admit it: You feel that way when Howard L. twitters about his farts

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Tumblrs, Who's Reblogging You?

Leigh — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:44:12 -0000

Ah got it guys. Thanks for the help. :)

Re: JOE LAZARUS - Milestone: Following 100 People

Leigh — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:27:35 -0000

Hum...I'm only following 16 people and I'm already finding the dashboard unwieldy. It would nice if i could filter out non-english languages - loving the tumble logs from Japan but I end up with pages and pages of reblogged quotes in japanese that I can't understand!

100 people. No wonder you are a tumblr award winner.....

(to the question by beach and more tumblr logs you can also try putting *.*tumblr.com and get a schwack of 'em)

Re: Open Source Product Management: Which Call To Action Is Clearer

Leigh — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:35:39 -0000

it must be bc i'm pissed off still at the airport (two more flights canceled) but it took me way to long to even see where you put the call to action on either one (and i used to be great at those kids games in the newspapers).

You have enough space to write "grab this widget" where it says Powered by Adaptive Blue ;-)

Re: Facebook bows to the Beacon haters

Leigh — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:48:48 -0000

I guess too many of my friends are social justice lawyers who work with people all the time who get screwed by this type of transient information. Seriously the stories I have heard would blog (ha, Freudian slip) your mind. And it goes on all the time.

But sure, for most of us tech writers, rich guys in NYC, doctors, digital executives, etc. - chances are we'll probably be just fine. Can't imagine my shopping habits will have anyone thinking very much other than I have great taste. ;-)

p.s if you keep disagreeing with me I'll make you buy lunch

Re: TED: These sour grapes taste terrible

Leigh — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 22:06:21 -0000

Kate (of iamkate) asked me if i was going and I said no, having not realized that in fact, one had to be "invited". Technology circles continue to remind me of grade 7. Sigh. If I could only go the super cool party of popular girl A or B.

Oh and Mathew, I'm sure Paul could pull a few strings for you and get you a ticket. Personally, I'd rather put up with the financial elitism of IDEAS city where as long as you can pay, you can play, here in the great white north :)

Re: Duncan Riley: Lessons in diplomacy

Leigh — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:37:19 -0000

Yeah and any self-respecting Aussie's I know would have called him a f*ckwit not a c*nt.

Re: Which is worse: piracy or anonymity?

Leigh — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:00:52 -0000

Yeah, not getting this one. Anyone I know in the publishing industry has said that their sales are not being impacted at all by the Web and that they simply aren't seeing the same issues as the music industry. People (and that includes kids) seem to generally still want artifacts when it comes to reading.

Re: Why do we like to collect music?

Leigh — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 18:34:51 -0000

Besides how would my 7 year old at the time be able to ask me about my really big CD collection and get into Jimmy Hendrix if not for music hoarding?

Re: Loren Feldman vs. Shel Israel

Leigh — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:10:45 -0000

I think Shel's just lucky that he's not famous enough to get on late night TV. I can just see a skit on the Daily Show with one of the reporters going and doing an interview with Shel, puppet in hand. Ah, see what happens when you hit the big times? :)

Re: Can OpenX compete with Google?

Leigh — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:23:31 -0000

A lot of ad serving companies are concerned over Google cutting them out of the middle (since most media sites and agencies use doubleclick anyhow).

I think Open X has huge potential to be successful........

Re: Shyftr: Feed theft or social news reader?

Leigh — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:33:40 -0000

Interesting though if you think about it, there are how many posts on Techmeme on this subject?.... but really, no one place to aggregate the conversation. It's one conversation conceptually but it's happening on 8 different blogs. A service that can bring those together in one? What's not to like about that....

Re: Bitchmeme: Do blogs deserve advertising?

Leigh — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:26:54 -0000

uh huh. I take the point on advertising however, monetization does not only = advertising. Let's look at some marketing math shall we?

Louis Gray = tech flavour of the month = popularity = people want to know him = gets into the tech "it" crowd = they invite him to conferences, lunches, blog funny anecdotes about their fun meet ups etc. = job offers, board of director offers = more conference speaking gigs = increase in personal brand value...and eventually = increase in money.

Re: Twitter: more mainstream than it looks

Leigh — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:35:41 -0000

And I would say even worse, kids think Twitter is the older persons communication method.....that to me creates huge limitations for it going into the future.

Re: Online fiction, Facebook and transparency

Leigh — Fri, 02 May 2008 10:50:31 -0000

To repeat what comments I made directly onto Eden's post...I think as marketers our job is creating fiction every day. Dove = self esteem . Yeah sure 'tever.

I think this entire thing is over the top. We shouldn't be applying notions of corporate transparency and that type of misrepresentation (walmart flog etc.) to an art project. They aren't even close to the same thing.

Oh well, at the very least, one can say the experiment did it's job. Art after all, is not only meant to match your furniture, its larger role is social change and commentary. Whether you like it or hate it, the fact that it made you think makes it in my mind a resounding success.

Re: Sharing presentations is fun — really

Leigh — Thu, 08 May 2008 09:08:00 -0000

I love slideshare. Actually I think from a global creative collaboration perspective it's probably my favorite site to get insights from those that work in my industry.

Re: Start-Up Itch…Again!

Leigh — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:10:51 -0000

You're going to be taking your shirt off on the Web again, aren't you....

Remember, Yoga retreats are like break-ups. Sometimes you need a little time in between them and big decisions. :)