DISQUS

Great post, Mike. I had never thought of using cartoon characters like that... excellent ideas & thanks for the tips.

Makes me want to go right out and get one... except I rarely wear suits anymore.

Wonderful vid, though!

you touched it without surgical gloves? One brave Parmet!

What a bad experience!

Delta will never be a Virgin, I am sure, but it is one of my favorite airlines (as opposed, say, to United or Northwest). They've delayed me a few times, lost my bags once, and even bumped me once, but the staff have always been polite and helpful (albeit harried).

As recently as December, their check-in agent turned a very blind eye to my family's overweight baggage: "Are you a Medallion member, sir?" "To be honest...no. I was Gold in the late 90s, but..." "Great! Great! No problem, I'll just tag these.... there you go... enjoy your flight!"

Granted, Delta is much friendlier in the Southeast than it is anywhere else...

In fact, I'd say Delta's biggest problem is their codesharing with AirFrance... now, those are some mean, pissed off people.

What's worse, when I click on the rms-biz link, my antivirus goes nuts...

You mean her staff has a blog... Don't get me wrong, I like it. But it's not really her blog... not really.

Whoa.... hold the horses, Ginger. I don't know about other folks, but Billy and I are on good terms again. Simple misunderstanding.

Robert, you and Shel mentioned my code of blogging ethics on the Red Couch a couple of years ago. One reason I feel I have to "go after" sploggers from time to time is because of, well, ethics. I'm under no illusion that I can help shut more than a few sploggers down, but I think ignoring sploggers signals them that the field is clear.

The real problem, as Amy Gahran points out on her site, is that Google and Yahoo provide an enormous incentive to sploggers, without giving safeguards to bloggers with CC licenses. But surely Google has every incentive to keep its AdSense ads "on the right side of the rules"... I simply cannot believe that those bright people cannot devise a method to do that.

Or is it technologically impossible?

Good points.

So elaborate, Parmet... I saw traffic coming to me via this thing but assumed it was some sort of scraping thingy. Almost sent them a nasty note.

What's good about this? What's the story?

Allan

Oooh... I bet the girls won't say "no" any more will they!

Actually, it was a mass spam by Bacon's to any blogger who had fallen into their database, according to the project manager in charge of the effort (I emailed her).

And according to Phil Gomes blog, it was almost a direct copy of a similar Edelman/Technorati survey.

I was prepared to cut them a break, but their effort fails on so many counts that it should be an embarassment.

It's not new, and you'll note that Virginia mentioned that she had covered the concept in Forbes ASAP in 1999. Kevin Kelly's New Rules for the New Economy (1998) touched it, as did Frances Cairncross in the Death of Distance ('96, if memory serves).



What's not new but relevant about Anderson's article is



a) it's coming after the dot-bust. Rightly or wrongly, much of the "net punditry" slate was wiped clean in 2000-2001. A lot of relevant stuff written them was tossed in the trash heap with all the worthless stock options.



b) In 1998-2000, little history could guide us. We only knew how going digital "should" affect intellectual property. Now we know a lot more, and Anderson did a pretty good job of pulling that together. It's not original, but it's important because many more managers are ready to think about the message.



c) Yeah, he "invented" a term for it. A pithy one that people are latching onto. As a communicator, I can say that is only good. Again... not original, but right place and right time.



All the best, Allan