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Re: Doesn’t Amazon want to get naked?

Dominic Jones — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 03:21:16 -0000

I agree with trey, a wimpy take.

Re: Doesn’t Amazon want to get naked?

Dominic Jones — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:12:29 -0000

While certain folks were harping on ad nauseam about this stupid non-event, let's see what actually happened in the world today:

Earthquakes kill 50, injure 800
Rice Concedes 'Tactical Errors' in Iraq
UN Security Council calls on Iran to suspend uranium enrichment

At least 57 die as Bahrain cruise boat sinks
Iran Test-Fires Missile Able to Duck Radar
Explosion kills Palestinian militant amid spreading violence
4 Israelis killed by suicide bomber at entrance to West Bank
NY releases 9/11 emergency calls

13 Ugandan pupils die in school fire

Now can you explain to me why your self-opinionated A-list genuflection matters to anyone?

Re: Should journalists be human beings?

Dominic Jones — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 14:51:01 -0000

I'll take a journalist with an opinion, a point of view, a mission and a passion any day over a unmotivated hack who rewrites news releases and simply repeats what each side of an argument says without question.

Re: Branded RSS readers or IE 7?

Dominic Jones — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:03:28 -0000

"Whatever people use, it’s important to find ways of making RSS easier for people other than geeks, or the real advantages of it as a micro-publishing format won’t be achieved."

I agree with you 100% about I.E. 7. You are absolutely right. I get excited thinking about all the people who will subscribe to my feeds when they have a familiar tool to do it with. I really can't wait.

My audience is as mainstream corporate as you can get -- and right now 60% subscribe to my blog via email alerts rather than RSS. Partly this is because they are not allowed RSS readers at work, but a bigger reason is that setting up a web-based account with Blogline or Pluck one of the many other options is just too much of a bind.

Microsoft will eventually own RSS because of this.

Re: IROs more than nannies to hedge funds?

Dominic Jones — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:48:43 -0000

We received the following comment via email from a reader:

Dominic, that's a nice turn of phrase, nanny to hedge funds. Some days it feels like that.

But for many of us, catering to the institutional investors and Wall Street Analysts is absolutely central. My company has a famous brand within our industry and $2 billion market cap, but I'll bet you've never heard of us.

It would be a huge project for us to develop a retail following. Our stock is about 95% owned by institutions and much of the rest is owned by employees, management and directors.

We communicate our strategy and results to our associates and maintain a reasonably complete and friendly investor website--not an award-winner, for sure. But that's the extent of our retail effort.

A much higher priority is making sure the young analyst at Fidelity, who is gatekeeper for their stake in my company, never ever has a day where he can't figure out what we're doing or why they like this stock. And making sure that the hedge fund that bought 5 percent of our stock last year gets their fix from me (the nanny) as often as possible and places only limited demands on my CEO and CFO's time.

Relationship management with a community of very bright CFAs takes a particular skill set, and companies should realize this when recruiting IR talent. For companies with heavy institutional ownership, there is no more important description of the IR role. I can get somebody else to spruce up my website.