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Re: No, You’re Not A Social Media Expert

John Wall — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:47:42 -0000

I think it's kind of strange to call yourself an expert on a communications channel. You don't see too many Telephone Experts or Fax Thought Leaders...

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

John Wall — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 19:03:24 -0000

It is amazing to see which apps are taking up space (Google Desktop anyone?). There's a similar tool on the PC side called Sequoia.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

John Wall — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:05:46 -0000

This burns me to no end. I enjoyed season one of Heroes on my iPod at the gym, now I can't get it. Looks like I wait for the season to end and get it on Netflix - instead of spending $50 it will probably cost out to be around $10. And I'm obeying the law, not willing to bittorrent. Maybe by season end I'll get wrapped up in something as good that's not absurdly difficult to get to.

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

John Wall — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 08:27:59 -0000

So if he was a good salesman he would have said "You need to read both these books to get the full story"?

Re: [bijansabet.com] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

John Wall — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 22:35:24 -0000

http://www.igo.com has saved me a lot of hassle and made it easier to travel...

Re: My Week in Media

John Wall — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:22:38 -0000

Thanks for adding us to your playlist!

Re: So this is home…

John Wall — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:41:33 -0000

I knew this was just a matter of time. Congratulations on kicking it off, one of these days we need to get some audio together...

Re: New Media Realty

John Wall — Tue, 08 May 2007 19:45:17 -0000

Don't even get me started on house hunting.

Re: Google, OpenSocial, and Marketing

John Wall — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:09:07 -0000

I keep saying that Google stock can't push past its peak and stuff like this keeps happening...

Re: Once You Step Up, You Can Never Go Back

John Wall — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:22:57 -0000

Happiness and pleasure are two different things. What gives you pleasure will not necessarily bring you happiness.

Re: Happy Valentine’s Day!

John Wall — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:50:55 -0000

Yes, a letter or a card can go just as far (or even much farther) than some flowers that were $50 less last week and will be $50 less next week...

My favorite Boston charity is the Franciscan Hospital for Children, the accept donations on their site:
http://www.franciscanhospital.org

Re: John Wall Nails Trade Shows

John Wall — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:41:40 -0000

Thanks! Hey... new template!

Re: Unsponsored Review: SuperDuper

John Wall — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 14:59:47 -0000

As a PC user I must say: this is some kind of crazy science fiction story.

Re: Where do the veterans of new media go?

John Wall — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:49:13 -0000

I was talking to Juilen this week, I was thinking about doing some kind of invite-only retreat. Maybe we can kick that around next week....

Re: How do you stave off the travel ills?

John Wall — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:42:31 -0000

I used to get knocked down 2-3 times every winter until I found some things that work:

1. Sleep, Matthew is right, don't get behind. Mitch Joel has a good mantra - sleep when you feel you need it and don't wake up with an alarm clock. Of course, not being a new media rockstar, this is completely impossible for me and from what I've seen of your schedule you sleep less than me.

2. Stay inside when the weather is below freezing. Cold air can be brutal on your sinuses. When I switched from running indoors on a treadmill from running outside I stopped getting the heinous green and bloody.

3. Thaw out. After 4 days here in Northern California with as much time outdoors as possible, I can breathe easy and my skin has already healed up from the dry and itchy rewards of living and breathing heated, germ filled circulated air for 3 months.

I've never found any meds that work. Afrin can clear your sinuses if you need a break from being swollen shut but that can give me panic attacks and it can rebound so I only use it for a day or two.

-p.s. I am not a doctor, lawyer, or pharma sales guy, but do play all of them in New Media.

Re: The Ever Watchful Eye of Google

John Wall — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:17:31 -0000

I'd add another often overlooked item to the list - although they may not be doing much with it, your ISP has access to most of the same information.

Re: Easter Egg Hunt

John Wall — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:00:53 -0000

I've noticed that the volume of comments tend to relate to the type of content. If you are stating facts and educating people I tend to see few comments. If you are taking a stand on a controversial subject, everyone will want to weigh in with an opinion. If you are telling a story, many will want to share similar tales.

I'm not surprised a there are few comments on FAP, most people don't have much to comment on about information they are hearing, or understanding for the first time.

Re: Snapple Antioxidant Water is a Soft Drink

John Wall — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:46:58 -0000

Soft Drinks = The New Cigarettes

Re: Snapple Antioxidant Water tastes exactly like water doesn’t

John Wall — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:35:39 -0000

Soft drinks are the new cigarettes.

Re: Government real estate numbers are a load of crap

John Wall — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:56:37 -0000

Don't forget, many government figures get "adjustments" or "corrections" on a quarterly basis. This is great when, during a recession pols can say that the figures show there is not recession, and then a year later look at the corrected numbers and say "we did a good job making it through that recession...".

Re: Fantastic movie trailer

John Wall — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:43:17 -0000

This and StarCraft 2 - Good times ahead

Re: Turning your Kindle into the best newsstand ever for free

John Wall — Mon, 04 May 2009 21:54:28 -0000

One other thing that you have to do: When you start Calibre the Output format is set to "EPUB" (right next to the big heart on the main screen). This format is not recognized on the kindle, you have to set it to "MOBI".

Then it rocks...

Re: Winning against all odds

John Wall — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:08:27 -0000

HTOTW should be available as a Kindle book, any chance that could happen?

Re: Your input is appreciated. To post my tweets on my blog or not?

John Wall — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:13:25 -0000

Sorry, I'm a hater, I can follow people on twitter, and when I'm there I want to know what you are up to RIGHT NOW. What was twittered last week is of no interest at all to me.

Re: Just What Is Social Media, Anyway?

John Wall — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 07:35:15 -0000

Hey, leave the questioning to Brogan, that's his turf!

Re: Global Social Media News

John Wall — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:48:46 -0000

Looking good Lewis!

Re: [RL] Prince, the Mail, and his free release

John Wall — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:41:49 -0000

Huh? I haven't seen a record store in about 20 years.

Re: Monday Lightning Round 5/12

John Wall — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:27:41 -0000

1. GPS
2. GPS
3. I am in charge, I'm going for coffee
4. Paper, easier for me to recycle
5. It will, but then it will suck.

Re: If You Say “Leverage” You Might Get Punched In The Face

John Wall — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 21:16:16 -0000

WTF? I didn't make the list... don't make me call the Beast!

Re: Is Xbox Live A Social Network?

John Wall — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:41:36 -0000

Damn straight it is. Good thing you gave the correct answer, I'd hate to have to make a special trip to kick your ass.

The fact that you can actually talk with people in the network puts it a step above most of the crap out there.

I'm looking forward to the fall upgrade to the UI too. My gamertag is jwol3.

Re: Steal These Ideas - Vol. 1

John Wall — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:30:23 -0000

Yeah, how about for prisons too? Instead of watching cable TV or playing hoops how and an hour on the bike feeding the grid?

Re: My Twitter Rules of Engagement

John Wall — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:58:03 -0000

Other classics - Zero Updates, Account Open for 6 months and 3 Updates, Hot semi-naked babe photo that's obviously a spam trap, accounts open for 5 days and already following 12,500 people...

Re: Taking a Diver on Market

John Wall — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:05:00 -0000

There's a special place in hell for anyone who refuses to help someone back into their wheelchair.

ps - T-Dub wins with a Smoking Man reference

Re: Quality Customer Service

John Wall — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:22:11 -0000

I can't wait to hear if you get the hug! Get a camera, get a picture of the designated hugger!

Re: Marketing with Social Media: Prerequisites from Christopher Penn

John Wall — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:42:11 -0000

What an exciting space! Camps have so much to gain from social media, staying in touch off season, keeping in touch with fellow campers, and creating alumni networks... Thanks for following Marketing Over Coffee.

Re: 33 for 33

John Wall — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:27:22 -0000

Congratulations and best wishes!

Your pal,
John

Re: 33 for 33

John Wall — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:46:38 -0000

Yeah, and those bastards haven't given me my deposit back yet!

Anytime you are in Boston give me a yell.
J

Re: Beware the Social Media Kool-Aid

John Wall — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:52:36 -0000

Thanks for the kind words, we will continue to work as a kool-aide antidote!

Re: Overheard in Gears of War

John Wall — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:13:52 -0000

I play GOW with my nephew, his tag is "Fluffy", he always gets a kick of seeing that on the player list next to Deathkiller, Fragmaster15 and Killslayer.

I've been playing some early morning Burnout with a bunch of Italian guys, and it's been fun to be the minority, the majority of the slurs revolve around being a "Fat American"

Re: Merging Digital Lives

John Wall — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:52:41 -0000

Indeed, version control is the cornerstone of all that is good...

Re: Got More Louie than Phillip Rizzuto

John Wall — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:02:33 -0000

I grew up in Western Mass so we got NYC channels rather than Boston so I used to listen to Scooter call the games. The sad part is that I remember him more for The Money Store.

Re: BioShock and Boston’s Game Makers

John Wall — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:23:05 -0000

So is it worth buying?

Re: The Other Mike Champion and the WS-Death Star

John Wall — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:51:06 -0000

This will not do. Have you picked up www.mike-champion.com and the like? This has to be easy to fix, it shouldn't be hard to kick an MSN blog out of a top spot on Google.

Re: NBC Fall Shows Free on Amazon Unbox

John Wall — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:00:34 -0000

I think my Tivo is 2nd generation and for some reason they used a USB 1.0 port even though 1.1 had already been out for years, could that be your bottleneck.

Re: WGBH LED Display Above the Mass. Pike

John Wall — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:09:09 -0000

Nice shot, how'd you get it? I've been trying to get a shot of this for over a week, but shooting while on the Pike is not easy.

Re: Photography on a Modest Budget

John Wall — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 18:08:50 -0000

I'll have to give Lightroom a shot. I have the Canon external flash transmitter on my wish list this year so I can try some off camera flash stuff. I also just got a Gary Fong Origami, I love it. It works as well as the big lightsphere but folds flat and takes up nowhere near as much space.

I've had my XT for about a year now, I went without the kit lens and got a Sigma 17-70 2.8 that I love. I was a little disappointed to see this week that the XTI is down to what I paid for my camera though.

Damn you, you've foiled me again! I followed the link to the 50mm 1.8 b/c I said why not for $75... And now I'm looking at the 1.4 for $300.

Re: Canon Powershot G9

John Wall — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:59:52 -0000

I have a Canon Powershot S100 that's 2mp and about 6 years old. It takes better pictures than the 7mp Casio that I unloaded on eBay after 6 months.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/39132450@N00/22182...

Re: Daily Commute: The Movie

John Wall — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:20:53 -0000

Flippin' Sweet! I love how even in Time Lapse you are stuck at Alewife for 20 minutes...

Re: How to Change The World with 200 Books — You Decide (plus Finalists of the Endless Summer Competition!)

John Wall — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:15:40 -0000

Tim,
I'd send 25 books to the MATCH Charter Public High School here in Boston, they are doing a fantastic job of getting kids out of tough situations and into college.

http://www.matchschool.org

Thanks,
John Wall

Re: Most Important Conferences

John Wall — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:13:42 -0000

If you are looking for thought leadership Gnomedex gathers a great crowd, and the PME is a must for podcasters.

But, shows are a luxury unless you are using them to set up customer meetings.

Re: What is YOUR Life Force

John Wall — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:50:57 -0000

I'll echo CANI, I'm also finding that it's important to continue to push out beyond the comfort zone. That's where the real gains are made.

Life moves pretty fast, and I don't want to miss any of it.

Re: Let’s Talk About LinkedIn

John Wall — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:48:05 -0000

I have friends that have used it successfully for hiring, but I've noticed people already burning out on that. It's been useful for networking to catch up with some people that had fallen off the radar, but aside from that it hasn't put any cash in my pocket personally.

Re: Favorite Firefox Extensions

John Wall — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 22:38:22 -0000

I'm hooked on the stumble upon toolbar, click stumble and it takes you to sites that others have rated as interesting. Be careful - it can be a huge productivity buster, but I have found a bunch of cool sites and tools.

Re: Julien Smith

John Wall — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:33:25 -0000

I'm in the same boat, I had known about his show but subscribed after podcamp and now I'm hooked.

It brings me back to the days when I was a cool urban deweller, not some suburban corporate wonk (and scarier yet, loving it).

Re: Another Term for Consulant

John Wall — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 18:13:18 -0000

Seth Godin had a related post this week - that slimy feeling you get from a hard sell the product of desperation, the fear of not finding the next gig.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/02...

Ronin have no fear, they know there's always another battle out there.

Re: Small Boxes 19- PodCamp Toronto

John Wall — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 21:31:34 -0000

Cool!

Re: Contributing in the Snack Culture

John Wall — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:37:35 -0000

Keep it tight baby!

Re: PodCamp Boston Memory

John Wall — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 17:49:36 -0000

I like your current haircut better.

Re: Why Im Not Going to PodCamp New York

John Wall — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:31:54 -0000

Dude, you have to go, I just heard they were acquired by Podcamp Boston...

Re: Free Your Inner Superhero

John Wall — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 09:47:16 -0000

Having a card for your blog, podcast, whatever is a great idea. I also have a personal card with my home address and phone, it's great for anyplace you'd normally have to fill out a form - doctor's office, insurance agency, etc. just give them a card to staple to the sheet.

Also - keep old ones when your address and/or phone change. Give the dead ones to pushy salesman or when you are shopping for cars...

Re: Why I Dont Visit Second Life

John Wall — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:25:42 -0000

Excellent! It's all about usability...

Re: Organizing and Thinking

John Wall — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 09:38:03 -0000

So glad to see this... I thought I was alone on Moleskine sucks bandwagon. I take short notes as memos on my treo and guess what - totally searchable, cut and paste into emails to share, and no shelf full of useless filled notebooks for your family to throw away when you die.

Re: Audio-The Down Engine

John Wall — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:32:58 -0000

LOL, I think it's just that Chris took some time to gather his thoughts before speaking, we're used to Brogan unfiltered and uncut. Or do you mean he just sounds like some other dude altogether?

Re: It Starts With Your Audience

John Wall — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 12:08:18 -0000

Whooo hoo! Thanks for the link love, we'll have to get you a ride on the Marketing Over Coffee jet.

Re: Think Like a CEO

John Wall — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 09:03:01 -0000

There's a good short book, called "What the CEO wants you to know", that talks about how CEOs really need straight talk rather than insulation from bad news...

Re: PodCamp Pittsburgh in the Paper

John Wall — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:50:22 -0000

Cool photo, I liked the video too...

Re: Jeremiah Gets a Snack Attack

John Wall — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:33:22 -0000

Screw the snackers. I want people smart enough to dig in and move the conversation forward way out at the edge. I appreciate it if they want to come along for the ride, but I want to work with the people who can go deep, not the hobbyists.

Re: Holiday Buying Guide

John Wall — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:23:02 -0000

Google reader doesn't like the amazon boxes.... Ahhh, the joy of technology...

Re: Social in Real Space vs Social Networking

John Wall — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 08:56:07 -0000

You with FSJ:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39132450@N00/22004...

You are so right, this is the second event this week that I went to in a conscious effort to only do events outside of the new media fishbowl.

At the bare minimum you need at least a wingman at a new event so that you can get beyond the "weird loner" stigma that leaves you talking to spouses or people who are not really involved with the event.

Getting a chance to even check out some URLs makes it much easier to find someone you'd like to meet and you can at least upgrade from "weird loner" to "possible stalker".

Re: Macbook Air is Great if You Like Clouds

John Wall — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:09:28 -0000

Mark and Peter have it right, Air is not for 95% of the laptop buying world, it's for those people who are members of the airline clubs and the flight staff recognize them when they get on the plane. If you've ever had burns on your shoulders from carrying around travel gear, you understand how cool the Air is. Everybody else, save some money and get the bigger rig.

Re: Bloggers vs Journalists and Who Cares

John Wall — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:19:38 -0000

I just wrote a couple of days ago about how old school journalists are the best poised to succeed in the blogosphere if they can get over their fear/hatred of it.

Re: Bloggers vs Journalists and Who Cares

John Wall — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:21:53 -0000

The link would help....
http://www.themshow.com/wordpress/2008/01/26/fa...

Re: Blog Problems Today

John Wall — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:21:26 -0000

Hey, I got the house rockin' this week talking about live networking events and weird stalkers:

http://www.themshow.com/wordpress/2008/01/30/we...

Re: Facebook Could Get Really Creepy

John Wall — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:57:04 -0000

Jeff has a valid point. Virtually everyone falls within 2 degrees of separation of board members (that's usually why they are chosen as board members). You can get from the Nazis to just about anyone in the Fortune 5000 in three links, check out http://www.theyrule.net for some examples...

Re: New Phone Number

John Wall — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:20:42 -0000

Dude, you should add a picture to your LinkedIn profile... I have been loading those into my cell phone.

Re: New Phone Number

John Wall — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:25:48 -0000

Wait, my bad... if you are not logged in to LinkedIn you don't see the pictures... Privacy? Interesting concept...

Re: Gary Gygax Died Today

John Wall — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:50:00 -0000

I will set down my 20-sided die in a moment of silence.

Re: Relationship Building at the Speed of Batman

John Wall — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:05:01 -0000

Battle for the Cowl!

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2009/02/dc-comi...

Re: Marketing Over Coffee is Live!

John Wall — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 22:09:30 -0000

Dr. Penn has handled your request! Great to hear from you! I got your email this week and will follow up with medbillmanager.com

Re: Handling a Crisis, and About Webinars

John Wall — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:04:38 -0000

Ted and Julien, thanks for the love. John Blue - interesting stats, it seems like this is the kind of thing to be reserved for Fortune 100 clients...

Re: Handling a Crisis, and About Webinars

John Wall — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:39:36 -0000

Are you going to do some follow up with the second group? You could do some calls - what did you think of the Nano, did you listen to the stuff?

Now that I think of it you could have a secret phrase in the audio program "Hey if you've listened to this call xxx-xxxx and we'll upgrade your headphones (or whatever)".

I'll be interested to hear how it goes...

Re: Handling a Crisis, and About Webinars

John Wall — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:11:38 -0000

Thanks Parker, you should be interested in tomorrow's too, we got on the subject of social media and politics....
J

Re: MySpace Bots, Black Hat and Politics

John Wall — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:32:52 -0000

LOL, why does that term peeve you so much? I still think it's kind of cool - if you're in charge of the website you are the webmaster...

Re: GhostBlogging - Who ya gonna call

John Wall — Fri, 04 May 2007 08:41:11 -0000

Thanks Peter, I'll keep you in mind for anything that comes up!

Re: GhostBlogging - Who ya gonna call

John Wall — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:02:41 -0000

That is cool, I'll give it a shout tomorrow.

Re: Handling a Crisis, and About Webinars

John Wall — Tue, 08 May 2007 21:06:36 -0000

Excellent!

Re: Learn from Porn Marketing, Future of the CD

John Wall — Fri, 18 May 2007 18:11:05 -0000

I wouldn't know...

Re: Fly the Cheapest Skies

John Wall — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:47:11 -0000

Dan, I'll check it out...

Re: If You Hear Tapping

John Wall — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:34:09 -0000

Sorry Len, two problems here. First was that we hit our upload limit so the file was truncated. I fixed it that morning but anyone that uploaded in the first 6 hours got the bad file. Second, for some reason my notification of new comments emails were not getting through, which is why I'm late. Everything should be back to normal now.

Re: More Trade Show Wars

John Wall — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:36:58 -0000

Nah, Chris did some housekeeping and changed the template. I liked the old one but I think this one's cleaner (and of course less risky).

Re: More Trade Show Wars

John Wall — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:40:32 -0000

Alex - Sorry, I had some email problems and I was unaware that comments were stacking up. I'm glad you're enjoying the shows, we will stay at DD, as the 'bucks doesn't open early enough. I'm going to do a concert tour shirt for Chris "Hello, Topeka!"

Re: Navel Gazing and Evangelists Pimping Your Stuff

John Wall — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:48:54 -0000

Yeah, in theory that should do it...

Re: Extra Creepy Edition

John Wall — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:17:55 -0000

I think LinkedIn is a bit underpowered as a resume, but it is a better way to filter applicants...

Re: See Around the World

John Wall — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 22:45:02 -0000

Thanks Reed, we'll kick this around this week. It really depends of if you are trying to close a sale, or get brand awareness. One requires some real info, the other just needs to cut through the clutter and have some impact...

Re: Hannah Montana. I’m coming for you.

John Wall — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:55:52 -0000

Great Scott! You are correct Sir! I'll catch up with you at the show...

Re: Android Latin

John Wall — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:20:02 -0000

Eric,
I don't think this will have any impact on the 30 and over demographic, but the generation raised on sidekicks and iPhones may be more understanding about a less stable open platform.

On the other hand maybe there will be a future backlash on phones that do more than make calls.

Re: Open Social and SEO Extravaganza

John Wall — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:27:25 -0000

Thanks for the clarification Chris, that is a good point - Google may not get all the data but they do get to become a central hub by controlling the API.

Re: Thanksgiving Extravaganza

John Wall — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:34:29 -0000

Eric - If the screen looks as good as the Sony one it is awesome, it's much closer to paper than screen. I'm starting to feel a pull at my wallet.

Matthew - Very good point, for business to consumer the opt-in is sacred and should not be violated, for business to business it's much grayer. Thanks, that's a good topic for a future show. ps - The new album is great, except for that Ninja track.

Re: The Biggest Thing Since The Thing Before Sliced Bread

John Wall — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:00:13 -0000

I can't speak directly for Chris but I think we are on the same page that if you are listening to the podcast and it's a resource for the work that you do, you're probably the kind of person we want to connect with.

Re: We got the Virus

John Wall — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:15:42 -0000

Thanks Chris, and everyone else. Actually we received 4 emails last week, so the first comment is the winner. Christopher Johnston takes the book...

Re: What to Learn from Politicians Besides Lying

John Wall — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:16:05 -0000

Jeff, that borders on blasphemy, none can touch the mighty Sammy. I was fortunate enough to catch the Sans Halen tour it was insane.

Re: What to Learn from Politicians Besides Lying

John Wall — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 22:19:37 -0000

Indeed, although next time I'll have to go the guest host route...

Re: Marketing Over Coffee crosses 1,000 daily listeners

John Wall — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:07:55 -0000

Wow, thanks for all the comments guys! I'm coming around to seeing two ways a podcast can generate value - either paid subscriptions for those that manage to get a big enough audience (and that only has to be 1,000 a month at $4 to cover groceries), or writing off the expense and considering podcast a communication tool along side with direct mail, print ads, trade shows and other difficult to measure, but effective tools for creating awareness and interest.

Re: April Fools Day YouTube RickRoll and Angry Commenters

John Wall — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:15:30 -0000

Further research on meme-jumping and SEO.

Re: April Fools Day YouTube RickRoll and Angry Commenters

John Wall — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:56:01 -0000

Thanks Mark, I'll add that to our show list for the week of the 17th.

Re: The Genius of Mr. Folger, Video version

John Wall — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:43:10 -0000

Sorry guys, for $149 bucks you get a camera with no audio in jack. I asked Chris about running the gear into the camera, but no dice.

John, stumble in is exactly how the show starts!

Re: Happy Social Media Birthday, John Wall

John Wall — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:50:13 -0000

Thanks for the shout out! I love the mug!

Re: SEO and Some Filler

John Wall — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:33:23 -0000

Signapore! Cool!

Re: AB and Taguchi Testing

John Wall — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:41:16 -0000

Of course it never gets boring...

My bet is it's already self aware and it directs Sergey and Larry.

Re: Summer Vacation Special

John Wall — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:55:13 -0000

I think that was the only session Dr. Weiss did, Chris does have sessions from David Meerman Scott and Dan Ariely posted up on the blog, I think that was it for the conference.

Re: Hot Gear and Trade Show Wars

John Wall — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 22:25:27 -0000

Trying to manage a customer's expectations such as expected level of service, or affecting their opinions of anchors such as expected price are completely subjective things.

Is there a lack of integrity when a Jaguar costs considerably more than a Honda Civic even though the cost to manufacture them does not vary as much as the price between the two? Is it dishonest to sell the Jaguar for more? Would you trust a used Jaguar salesman more or less than a used Honda salesman?

Business transactions are based upon the meeting of feelings and opinions, there aren't as many facts or truths as there are emotions in the closing of a deal.

Re: The Power of Marketing

John Wall — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 12:54:18 -0000

That's the first copywriting hero I've seen!

Re: Christmas Giftcast Exchange

John Wall — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:27:41 -0000

I'm up for doing something different, maybe I can hook up with Comicazi!

Re: Rebranding the Student Loan Network and Edvisors Network

John Wall — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:57:36 -0000

"Simplifying Financial Aid" is the feeling that I get. I like sticking with the Corinthian-style fonts, that adds to the "money" feeling, although I would lean more towards blue than green. You may also want to leverage some ivy covered buildings, something from downtown Quincy perhaps. Just some random thoughts...

Re: Julien Smith explains how to make money online.

John Wall — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 06:52:30 -0000

True, there is no accounting for new media, just as in any barter economy there will be no hard numbers because everything is based on the subjective value that the traders assign to the goods they have vs. what the trade for. From an economics standpoint it's still easy to measure new media - it's the reach you have and the mindshare that you get. The difference from old media is that all that could be measured previously were eyeballs (or earballs), with new media there's also a degree of engagement - single visitors, vs. lurkers, vs. frequent commenters, vs. content creators, vs. A - Listers.

This is where the economics gets interesting - the value is a function of three variables - the reach of your audience, the degree of engagement, and your ability to introduce money into the equasion.

So, you have 1 million listeners, at worst you get an old school deal at $30 per thousand. This could be chump change if you have the right 200 listeners (i.e. Fortune 5000 CEOs) that are willing to pay $1000 each for some event you are running.

I think you are right on the mark, there's no measuring anything until it crosses to dollars somewhere, and the results could be surprising - there could be money to be made that doesn't even show up on the radar for 99.995% of the population, and there may be hugely popular media that is just a financial sinkhole.

Re: Julien Smith explains how to make money online.

John Wall — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 22:38:41 -0000

Well, you could measure who had the most and best stuff, but that would be in the eye of the beholder. Basically a lot more people got screwed on transactions.

Re: PodCamp Toronto ROCKED the podcasting world

John Wall — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:26:12 -0000

Thanks for the kind words! But don't blow my cover!

Re: Bum Rush the Charts Update 9:30 PM ET

John Wall — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:21:02 -0000

There are those who bitch about the world, and a much smaller group that changes it. Stick with the team that makes the invisible (your dreams) visible.

Re: Bum Rush the Charts statistics update - 9 AM ET

John Wall — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:10:23 -0000

Updated iTunes top 100:

Canada #53
Germany #73
Netherlands #15
Norway #55
Sweden #95
Untied States #99

Re: FAP594: Jobcast - Make Yourself Instantly Employable, Mortgages, Athletic Loans, Black Lab

John Wall — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 15:03:10 -0000

My mortgage is getting passed, I haven't even made the first payment...

Re: Twitter NCAA 2008 March Madness Charity Pool

John Wall — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 06:57:36 -0000

I'm in:
http://tournament.fantasysports.yahoo.com/t1/54...

Re: How To Staycation

John Wall — Sat, 24 May 2008 17:27:02 -0000

GPS has been invaluable for Staycationing - I just go to a neighboring town and start driving around, who cares where you end up, you can't get lost. I've found shortcuts, farmer's markets, parks and restaurants. If you are into architecture you can see some incredible homes if you go into wealthier towns and explore some of the less traveled side streets...

Re: CNBC: Financial aid for unemployed parents

John Wall — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:22:19 -0000

Nice job, you rocked the block.

Re: The Ultimate Notepad is a Wiki

John Wall — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 21:20:43 -0000

Brain Maps are a cool way to do it too, I've used the one from MindJet but I think there's a freeware one out there too.

Re: Starting the GuildCafe Blog

John Wall — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:29:59 -0000

Hey Jon, glad to see a blog starting up, I'm sure there will be plenty of interesting stories!

Re: If My Feed is Requested, Does that Count as Download Request?

John Wall — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:50:12 -0000

Here's as far as my knowledge goes:
1. Is not necessarily a feed request, it depends on how the client handles the adding of the feed. If the client starts the add process based on seeing the file name feed or the extension .xml it may not have to make a request.

2. Opening the feed in a browser is a request

3. If you mean adding a feed as a live bookmark in Firefox it will request it once it's added and every time you start the browser when connected and it has a refresh which can be set by the server (and probably the client but I haven't looked for that in the preferences). Please chime in if you've done that, I don't open FF on my cell modem anymore b/c I have to wait for 2 meg in feeds to come down before I can browse.

4. A directory would grab the feed to analyze it.

5. Errors will depend on which side had the error, a client error may never get to the server and not show up. It's also possible that a server error would not be recorded.

6. It's important to note that most newsreaders will be requesting the feed every time they start (unless set otherwise). From what I understand requests for the feed are not a very useful metric, downloads of the media files are far more useful in determining who's getting the content.

The audio file is not actually in the feed, only the location of it, so you will not show a download request until the feed is downloaded and the user requests the file. If your newsreader chaches the file for you than you will have a download, but downloading the feed will not register a download request unless the client checks the feed and then downloads the file.

The other issue that clouds all of this is that clients may make multiple requests for single files before the download commences. As a result your download requests will always be significantly overstated compared to actual downloads. Bandwidth is a better measure of the number of downloads, but then this becomes skewed by partial downloads.

Just to mess with your brain a little more, there's also the issue of IP addresses. Think of this as the "ID Number" of the machine requesting the download. Unique IP's is a number that is very good, but this stat is understated because some ISPs funnel all requests through single machines (ie - all AOL downloads appear to come from a narrow range of IP addresses). Libsyn has a formula that they apply that takes into account your unique IPs and then does some guestimating (probably based on bandwidth and total requests) and draws a line in the sand.

If you look in the Libsyn forums under stats there's more there than you'll probably want to know.

This also raises some other issues that show how fragile a feed can be when it gets redirected too many times, hopefully this will shake out as more standards form.

Re: I Met John Wall at Gnomedex

John Wall — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 08:41:10 -0000

Thanks for the shout out Paul! I'll catch up with you at your session at the podcast expo, if not sooner...
-J

Re: The Goto Webinar Webinar – Learn How To Webcast And Podcast With The Same Tool

John Wall — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 13:32:52 -0000

I've been using GoToMeeting for over a year after moving off WebEx, it's fantastic.

Re: I Need A Batch of Podcast-Production-For-Hire Types

John Wall — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 06:44:34 -0000

Hey Paul, If you need anyone in the Boston area give me a call...

Re: Mobile (Phone) Podcasting And MVPs

John Wall — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:28:48 -0000

My big thing with this is I don't see getting podcasts on phones as making anything easier for anyone (more features, more timely - yes). And making podcasting much easier for people that don't get tech is the most important thing to making it viable.

Plus, why drain the batteries on my phone when I already have my iPod? I'm not about to give up the 80GB of music and video for 2GB of space on a phone.

Re: Are Podcasters Slowing Down Podcasting’s Growth?

John Wall — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:04:01 -0000

There's nothing on that list that I can contradict....

Re: What “The Channel That Used To Play Music Videos” Has To Teach Us About Video Podcasting

John Wall — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:34:40 -0000

This is pure genius.

Re: What “The Channel That Used To Play Music Videos” Has To Teach Us About Video Podcasting

John Wall — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:31:25 -0000

I think there are two things going against it, first there's nothing to dispute about a slam dunk, second, for a lot of readers you might be telling them the emperor has no clothes...

Re: Video is Easier than Audio

John Wall — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:08:52 -0000

Ghetto video yes, but what about lighting, makeup and more difficult to edit...

Re: MOT #1: The Subscriber

John Wall — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 20:40:54 -0000

Cool! I finally got around to watching it after having it Starred for days. So what's next?

Re: You might be in the fishbowl if…

John Wall — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 09:19:03 -0000

You're in the fishbowl if you know that the 21st comment is completely past the attention span of the average fishbowler and will never get read.

Re: Who “gets” New Media?

John Wall — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:20:23 -0000

Oh my! Trust among middle managers in the Marketing department at a large corporation, that's a good one! OMG, I'm having trouble breathing....

Re: Bye Bye Boilerplate

John Wall — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 08:53:12 -0000

As long as the PR guy has to fill out 3 forms a day with a 100-word description, there will be boilerplate.

Re: Dumb and Dumber

John Wall — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:54:09 -0000

Don't even get me started, Verizon FIOS rocks, but the set top DVR is a complete piece of crap....

Re: New Media – New Directions

John Wall — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:35:29 -0000

And it Begins!

Re: Take care of your tribes

John Wall — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:15:36 -0000

Hey old man, I just posted the Q+A from the Tribes presentation - an hour and a half from Seth Godin:

http://www.marketingovercoffee.com/2008/11/25/s...

Re: Painting A Picture

John Wall — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:20:55 -0000

Damn, I can see why you are afraid of falling!

Re: If My Feed is Requested, Does that Count as Download Request?

John Wall — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:50:12 -0000

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