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Re: 10 tips for talking to GOM: Tip Two

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:38:11 -0000

One reason so many people are burned right now is precisely because they believe financial products exist that provide above average returns at below-average risk. The market is very good at seeing the discrepancy and adjusting (at the product level... at the macro level, all bets are off).

What people could benefit from are independent financial advisers whose fees do not depend on commission or a %age of profit or funds under management. Hard to find, though.
.-= Allan Jenkins´s last blog ..links for 2009-11-05 =-.

Re: Twitter case study: part deux

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:04:11 -0000

Hopkins... these people are.... this town is... magnetic.

<abbr>Allan Jenkins’s last blog post..Slow travel & social media (part one)</abbr>

Re: Backup, backup, backup. Daily

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:32:15 -0000

"Serves you right"? Far from it. There but for the grace of God go I.

Re: I’m ranked 8th in Top 50 most influential blogs list

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:59:06 -0000

Congratulations, old bean! Though they are simply confirming what anyone with eyes knew already.

Keep it up!

Re: Intranets and Social Media Workshops for Communicators

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:40:37 -0000

And this is not just "any" social media conference. You are leading two of the workshops.

Good value for 20 lucky people!

Re: I’m taking time off to write a book/report

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:48:41 -0000

50K in 15 working days? 3400 words a day? You are some sort of working man, friend. See you on the other side.

Re: Apologies for my silence

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:51:06 -0000

Good to have you back.

Re: Apologies for my silence

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:57:40 -0000

Soon I hope! All sorts of writers block.

Re: Rumours of my death…

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:20:04 -0000

Nice case of customer service... rare enough, these days.

Re: Mitch Joel on the past, present and future within social networks

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:19:16 -0000

Didn't/Doesn't Plaxo have a big spam problem? People invite me to Plaxo, and unless I jump through hoops to deny the invite, Plaxo just keeps sending invites... not realizing that a non-response is a "no".

Re: Personal organisers, Sarah N Dipity and the Quest for Synchronicity

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 01 May 2008 06:18:37 -0000

Let me say that I am a faithful reader of DIYPlanner.

But I think you may be overcomplicating it... between judicious use of Google Calendar (which posts to my phone) and a Moleskine 18-month weekly calendar, I am as efficiently organized as any Crackberry fan.

Re: Kryptonite giveaway – someone better tell Superman

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:44:56 -0000

Do their locks work, now? Seriously, I haven't heard word one that they do... or have been corrected ... or are improved.

Kryptonite = crap = shoddy = don't work. Why should I want to get her giveaway stuff, when I wouldn't accept her own product if she gave it away?

Or did I miss something?

Re: I bought this Porsche Carrera for my wife, honestly!

Allan Jenkins — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:55:17 -0000

Memo to Hoppo: don't write posts and twitters after 8PM on Friday nights.

Re: PR Disasters » New Comms Review; a one way forum?

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:49:01 -0000

Interesting.... Elizabeth and Jen are usually so on the ball...

Re: Cook & Hopkins Social Media Report – 3rd Edition

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:41:23 -0000

Nice job, Hoppo!

Re: Celebrate good times, come on!

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:13:50 -0000

And a swellegant three years of erudtion, irritation, education and general cussedness it has been!

Hopkeenz! That bloggin', p'castin' big thang!

All the best, Allan

Re: Trevor Cook: The dull headline is not so dumb after all (SEO)

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:18:26 -0000

When a celebrity dies or a president is shot, good journalism is not "Dead in Bed" or "Dead in the back of his limo".

It is "Heath Ledger Dies" or "JFK Shot"

Headline #1 is by far the better headline -- not for the SEO gravy, but because it tells the story in summary form. A story that is fleshed out in the lede, and more so in the rest of the story.

I don't care a fig for Heath Ledger, but some people do, and the editors of SMH wrote the story for them. Actually, the editors of SMH also wrote the story for those of us who don't care -- I would have seen the headline and moved on, grateful that my time had not been wasted.

If you take Trevor's advice, the Heath Ledger story should have read:

Dead in Bed

It's not like getting laid by Rodeo Boy. In your tent. While the sheep murmur and the wolves sing songs of the untamed West.

Yes, it was the bed of one of the Olsen sisters. Not the tent of Rodeo Boy. But Ang Lee was not there to weave the tale, And the Olsen hottie wasn't there to ... whatever she does.

It was death. Death discovered by the maid.

No sheep. No Olsen sister. Not even newsworthy.

(story continued on 7B)

What a waste of time that would have been.

Re: Thanks

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:36:44 -0000

Learning from the master... wish I could have teleported there!

Re: 8 things you didn’t know about me

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 16:47:48 -0000

I cannot believe you tagged me with that... now I will have to think up plausible BS to impress people I don't even know. Sheesh.

Re: For those of us who miss Meryl

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:43:48 -0000

Meryl and Richard are in Zurich? Well, hell, that's not more than 10 hours hard driving from chez DesRoCof...

AJ

Re: Jenkins supports the Burma Junta? Say it isn’t so!

Allan Jenkins — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:08:41 -0000

Unfortunately, the junta seems to have cowed everyone back into silence... this time.

Re: To IABC or not to IABC, that is the question

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:29:58 -0000

Lee, was sorry to hear you were leaving, and I hope Julie can get it fixed up.

I have been a member-at-large --- no local chapter etc -- for years... but that hasn't mattered. Literally, the amount of professional knowledge I've gained from IABCs network and conferences (of which I have attended just a few in the last few years) has always outweighed the dues.

Were I joining today, I might weigh IABC more carefully... to a large extent, the IABC network is available online, bypassing IABC entirely. And yet... it's a fine organzation that pays back far more than the dues you put in.

Allan

Re: Haven’t had enough of me yet?

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 04 May 2007 13:15:57 -0000

Angela, Meryl AND you? I tell you, if you were holding this in the US, I'd make the trip.

Re: Isabella and Penny join the CommsCafe team in Second Life

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 11:35:06 -0000

Hey, lay off, Sketch! He buys the champagne.

Re: Swimming for fitness and travel

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:25:23 -0000

Greyhound bus? Last time I took a Greyhound was from New Orleans to Pensacola in 1981. Everyone else was either insane or a just released convict-- sometimes both.

Re: PayPal ‘fake’ emails on the rise, it seems

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 14:41:47 -0000

What I do is cull the bank accounts of Nigerian scamsters, and feed them to them.

My hope is that I will eventually create a "do loop" that crashes the African banking system.

Re: Is it me, or is it April Fool’s Day somewhere in the world?

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 21:26:00 -0000

Yes, but it's true. I have seen any number of articles on this in the last six months. A wasp or bee, being essentially single minded, can be "taught" in seconds, whereas a dog is, well, a dog.

It's a great idea, but the high-school dropouts who handle airport security in the US will surely protest. If the bee replaces the dog, whom will the dog replace?

Re: Novel approach to speeding motorists

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 03:14:47 -0000

Bryan Wilder, my friend who plays "Bart Sweeney," says people barely batted an eye. And Denmark actually has pretty good traffic control.

Anyone offended by bare breasts should make a mental note never to visit a European beach.

Re: Branding: When a picture really does say a thousand words

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:40:15 -0000

Awwww... "oh for dumb" as they say in Minnesota. Thanks, Due Diligence, I should have checked at Snopes.

Hopkins!!!!

Allan

Re: Branding: When a picture really does say a thousand words

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:08:28 -0000

I don't want to rain on the parade, but I think there's some really good Photoshopping at work here.

Re: Branding: when you KNOW it’s right!

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:00:48 -0000

It was only a few months in Melbourne, Lee, but I was blessed with a great circle of friends and colleagues who made sure my Oz experience was "total immersion."

How else would I end up barracking for the Saints, beer in one hand and a meat pie in the other? Let me 'fess up, though: with the MCG only a 10 minute walk from my flat, I didn't always make the trip out to whereever St Kilda was that weekend if Melbourne was playing at home.

Re: G’day to Stephanie and the crew!

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 14:28:44 -0000

Ooops... Bill Styron won't be publishing any more best sellers:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,19...

Re: G’day to Stephanie and the crew!

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:11:54 -0000

Danielle, if I can add to Lee's estimable list (and these are all Southern writers, by the way):

Pat Conroy, South Carolina/Georgia (Lords of Discipline, The Prince of Tides, the Great Santini). Even his cookbook is excellent: recipes interwoven with sublime essays on life, love, loss, redemption.

William Styron, Virginia (Sophie's Choice, A Tidewater Morning, Lie Down in Darkness, the Confessions of Nat Turner). Writes slowly and publishes rarely, which may be why he has 60 years of bestsellers.

Peter Taylor, Virginia and Tennessee. Superb short stories, and his short novel "A Summons to Memphis" is one I read every year.

Ferrol Sams, Georgia. Sams is a retired physician who first published at age 60 or so. Tighter, edgier, funnier stuff than I'll ever write.

And Flannery O' Connor, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty (the email program "Eudora" is named in honor of her hilarious short story "Why I live at the P.O."), Faulkner (of course), Shelby Foote. And the tremendous Bobbie Ann Mason (Kentucky), whose short stories can only be read one at a time: two would be an overdose -- they are that good.

Oh... don't get me started!

Re: G’day to Stephanie and the crew!

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 13:50:18 -0000

You slay me, Hopkins. Auburn students are Southerners, Lee, just like me. We don't defecate and we don't do defecation jokes. Sheeesh. No more Vic Bitter for you.

Re: Community Service Announcement

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 14:03:00 -0000

The idea of Lee singing Karaoke -- you just know he'd choose Streisand numbers, probably that "People who need people" thing -- is enough make me swear off all intoxicants for a week or so.

Re: Clippings from the BetterComms Garden

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:59:37 -0000

Sending Lenny & Stinky after me because I don't like FIR jingles? Well, color me puckered. It's just that sort of day. Oh, by the way, remember to send your FedEx info... last time, it cost a fortune to send them home to you.

Re: Clippings from the BetterComms Garden

Allan Jenkins — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 15:19:28 -0000

Now, THAT's funny, BryPer!

Re: Clippings from the BetterComms Garden

Allan Jenkins — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:58:51 -0000

To be mentioned in the same post as Midnight Oil and most of my favorite bloggers is pretty heady stuff!

I'm just home from a dinner with Eric Schwartzman & some of the Copenhagen geekosphere. Odd how often your name turns up at these events. And, generally, in a positive way. ;-)

Re: Update on Second Life meeting later today

Allan Jenkins — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:13:13 -0000

What the hell is an Akubra? Should I get one? Would I look good in it?

Lots of my audience Thursday were curious about Second Life, but enormously skeptical. But open.

Re: A ‘heads up’ on interviews about employee comms

Allan Jenkins — Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:15:06 -0000

Meryl's one of my favorites.. can't wait to hear that.

Re: The Comms Cafe finds a new home in Second Life

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 16:38:40 -0000

Soooo yummy! Kami, come hang out anytime. Rest of y'all, too!

Re: Hopkins suddenly almost as popular as Rocketboom?

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 12:56:53 -0000

Just tell us what's in the shed, Hopkins.

Re: Vidblog Thursday 31st August 2006

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:47:24 -0000

I'll bite. What's in the shed?

Re: Interview with Allan Jenkins on internal comms

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 16:03:28 -0000

Well, I am sure you will get a flood of downloads of this!

Re: Vidblog12August: On compassion fatigue, inappropriate evangelism and your kind comments and help

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:32:42 -0000

Great stuff, Lee. 'Course, now I'll have to do one... one more damned thing after another.

Re: New SL presence for the Cafe

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 14:26:41 -0000

What a tremendous job you have done on our pad, brother! It is certainly the place for smart, well-dressed, intelligent people.

Re: New to social media? Then read this…

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 17:04:05 -0000

Mrs Better is over in Melbourne? Lucky girl! I used to know every restaurant, cafe, bar and brothel within 700 meters of the corner of Spring and Bourke.

Re: Good news in a bad week

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:07:19 -0000

You wild man, you kick-ass wild man. Congrats!

Re: Sex sells – redux

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:47:12 -0000

That's only January through September, bubba... where's the rest?

Re: Woke up in my clothes again this morning

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:01:46 -0000

Someone has waaaay too much time on his hands.

Re: Are we wasting our time and energy?

Allan Jenkins — Sun, 28 May 2006 13:09:54 -0000

After making my last comment, I found this post over at Scoble & Israel.

http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2006/05/i_ju...

Re: Are we wasting our time and energy?

Allan Jenkins — Sun, 28 May 2006 12:22:02 -0000

Stick with it. I have the same feeling, but I had the same feeling in 1994-1997 with Web 1.0. No one bought it at first, then a few said "yeah... ok, but..." ... and then, whoosh... from 1997-2001, I didn't bill one hour for off-line communication consulting.

Dave Traynor makes a good point: we need to prove benefit in both improved communication and in better use of resources. Frankly, I think we all get a bit too evangelistic about the first, and spend too little on the second -- I know I'm guilty of it.

Re: Today is Anzac Day

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 26 Apr 2006 09:54:25 -0000

Great holiday. I was always impressed driving around Victoria and seeing so many towns with memorial avenues on the way in and out.

But... I hope you dont blame Winnie for Gallipoli.

Re: How to create a global project management tool in 72 hours

Allan Jenkins — Sun, 09 Apr 2006 16:54:39 -0000

Credit where credit is due!

Eric Eggertson, Andrea Weckerle, and Ike Pigott dreamed this up, not me. My roles are a) a part of the inspiration (via David's editorial) and b) the blog caretaker (only because I had Typepad space and the 15 minutes handy to set it up).

And since we are nobodies, I see the 20 or so of us (and our numbers are legion) as joint and independent owners of the brand. If we forget that... we are somebodies and the whole thing falls to earth.

So while I'm a happy part of the incident that prompted the IAN, I did not launch it.

Allan

Re: On being a nobody

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 18:26:06 -0000

If I'd known you were a nobody, I'd have asked Stinky to lounge on the futon of Antipodean Communication.

Re: You must be famous when you’re being scraped

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:32:17 -0000

You leave my friend Henriette alone, or I'll open up a can of Whoop-Ass that'll make you audible in Darwin. Everybody who's anybody in Denmark knows that calendar is worth buying sight unseen.

Seriously, though, we need to find some sort of group or "class" mechanism to bring scrapers down... I give away my content for free, because I am uninterested in the whole "monetization", to use an ugly word, thing -- but I'm happy to stomp on anyone who thinks that means I'm giving it away to them to make money on.

Re: You know you’ve made it when…

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 03:06:24 -0000

Sprint could learn something from this. When I sweetly -- ok, as sweetly as I could, given my nature -- cattle prodded them about their marketing efforts, they responded with a machine generated form letter. You go the CTO, personally.

Must be that Aussie charm, old man.

Re: A prayer required for Jenkins’ Lady

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:56:29 -0000

It's an excellent notebook, Hopkins! Excellent! Exceeds "very good" by a long shot. But you wouldn't know that. As we say back of the bike shed "Hopperkins needs big notebooks because his crayons are so big."

So there.

Re: Any guns for hire?

Allan Jenkins — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 15:10:40 -0000

Hey Lee, what are those funky-dunky icons you have at the bottom of the post?

Re: Moleskines and working methodologies

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:45:34 -0000

Ooooh! You got a Moleskine! Aren't they terrific?

I use one of mine only for ideas and thoughts, and the other for my compulsive list taking. No business notes, no shopping lists. Keep them sacred to one purpose & they become remarkably useful and valuable.

Re: You know you’ve made it when you are tagged for the Four Things meme

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 18:19:45 -0000

Oh, Hopkins! Tuna casserole? Sorry, tuna casserole is the sacred province of a) the American midwest, b) the part of Victoria, Australia roughly encompassing Hamilton, Ballarat, and Bacchus Marsh (I know this personally) and c) funerals.

It's in this last incarnation that tuna casserole is particulary offensive because, as the afternoon wears on, one cannot help be reminded of the guest of honor.

I had to say that. You still have the Futon. But I want first dibs on seats in the Florentine trattoria when your book booms.

Re: Impressions of Dubai

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:53:52 -0000

Great trip report, Lee! And congrats on the gig.

Re: Allan Jenkins, where are you?

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:52:46 -0000

Hey old bean!

I posted four posts on the 22nd, all very insightful, thought-provoking, and generally wonderful!

Is your newsreader working?

Re: Jenkins is back, damn his hide!

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:28:42 -0000

There is no fairness, Hopkins. But, hey, it makes for an interesting life.

Allan

Re: Happy birthday to me

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 14:20:41 -0000

Happy B's old man!

Remember... if the ball&chain won't let you take the electronic notebook, she'll probably let you off with the moleskine.

Allan

Re: Thinking of starting to blog? A case study

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:49:43 -0000

Gabby *and* mouthy? If I have to come down to Adelaide and kick fanny, I'll do it.

Re: Dan York comes out to play — hurrah, hurrah!

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:59:04 -0000

Speaking of coming out to play, I see Warren Bickford is your hometown this week... has he offered himself to be interviewed?

Allan

Re: The Got No Notebook HydraHead Octopus Blues

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:44:52 -0000

Having a vested interest in the speedy return of KCWP ("Keep Communicating with Passion!) to the airwaves, I can only say... I hope it's fixed fast!

Thanks for the kind support re: the recent vandalism. The carp were pretty angry, though at current temperatures, they are pretty much no more than brain-stems with fins anyway. Other than that, the damage was minimal. Not enough to go to insurance over; though enough to report to the local police.

Re: My value has increased…

Allan Jenkins — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 13:28:20 -0000

Yeah, that is truly odd, isn't it?

Seriously, I think Technorati is often buggy... sometimes I will post two articles in the same day with the same tag... one might show up on Technorati right away, the other might never show up.

In the case of the blog valuations, I think that will soon change, since BoingBoing linked to me today ;-)

Re: Tell me more, tell me more…

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 09:32:15 -0000

I'm not crueland vicious. I am a kind, gentle counselor. Now go get me a XXXX and put another shrimp on the barbie.

Re: Will Donna have a walk-out?

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:49:29 -0000

At IABC conferences, lots of people vote with their feet. I once passed a door, saw the droves streaming out, and thought "wow, they finished early"... except, it was a vote.

Re: What if your audience DID walk out on you?

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:49:11 -0000

You ain't alone, Lee.

Presentations have to be honed, rehearsed, honed, rehearsed. Even adjusted as you see what sort of audience is coming in the room.

I gave a speech about the uses of the Internet a few years ago to pharma researchers. 7 AM. I was pretty sure it would be an empty room. At 6 45 it was standing room only, maybe 200 attendees around 4 coffee urns. Mingling, I realized that... dammit... they didn't have a clue about the Net...

I was able to quickly fix the presentation... but if I had not rehearsed since 2 AM, had not known every inch of my talk, there's not a chance I could have adjusted.

Re: Because one of us was always going to do this, so it might as well be me

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 18:29:49 -0000

It's a cute little applet, but you have pointed out why it's useless, just cute.

I mean, why on earth is FIR, which has pretty much become the joint H&H site (come on, boys, don't hold back...when's the date?!), given an $0? And Kathy, as you say, is a hell of a read.

And there are a couple of PR people on that list who are wildly overpriced if we are to judge by content. But, Manhattan has always been wildly overpriced.

Re: Crisis communication: we all need a plan, Stan!

Allan Jenkins — Sun, 09 Oct 2005 13:37:55 -0000

Thanks, Lee, for your kind words. What always irks me is that small businesses feel they a) have no need for PR help or b) can't afford it.

But, they all need it -- especially if they have a risk of personal injury liability. And, because they are small businesses, their PR budget need not be extravagant.

They often have the same attitude about other marcom... Well, there's a reason some small businesses stay small.

Re: We move from evangelism to evangelist educators

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:30:09 -0000

I should just shut down my blog and move here. Christine, what Lee said.

Re: Words CAN change our perceptions

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 02:27:37 -0000

Like when the missus yells downstairs "We're having osso buco tonight", so that you enjoy the aroma of osso buco for an hour before heading upstairs to encounter stewed cabbage? Something like that, right?

Re: IABC 1st Australian Conference misses the boat

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 28 Sep 2005 07:42:34 -0000

Typical IABC. I have to go to the comments of a blog of an Australian IABC member to find out what's happening in my own region.

I've been a member of IABC since the late 80s... the ONLY period in which I received any sort of mail from IABC Europe was when I was on IABC's board.

Lee, Neville... keep posting IABC Europe news on your blogs... otherwise, I (and I don't think I'm alone) will never know anything.

Re: Press Release: Professors Hopkins and Goetsch open world’s first Podcast Asylum

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:18:13 -0000

I'd need to see a photo of the dusky handmaiden before I could decide.

Re: The considered alternative voice: a disappearing phenomenon?

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:43:21 -0000

One way to get out of your own bubble is to go out of your way to put eclectic stuff on your "blogs to read" list. I get a great deal of joy out of the people on my "Ideas" blogroll, none of whom are in my profession.

Also, some bloggers make their complete blogrolls available (i.e., what they read, rather than just who they highlight on their side bar). I do this. Amy Gahran has an enormously eclectic list. So does Elizabeth Albrycht. I've found blogs I adore just by mining their lists.

Re: NotebookLand has great customer service

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:03:55 -0000

Just to be fair to Dell... my article was about my drifting away from them because of the buzz I was hearing. I've never owned one of their products, and my friends who do seem satisfied.

Laptops and PCs are a commodity, so you can only "brand" the ease of purchase, delivery, and service. That's where Dell seems to be stepping down... Bad sign.

What's worse for them is that I was warned off.... they didn't get a chance to make the sale.

Re: a fistful of bloggers

Allan Jenkins — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:56:04 -0000

Lee, I believe the debate over there is a bit self-righteous: can I be pure if my blog is a revenue source?

Sure. GoogleAdsense, for example. I would never believe a blogger is biased because of Google Ads. Ditto for Amazon Associates.

For payola or gifts directly related to a post, it's more complicated but still not an issue for me:

1) a book or software sample? Mention it in the post.

2) anything bigger? €25 or more? Can't be justified. No thanks.

Talking about or mentioning a client or one of its main competitors? Say so. Ditto with important suppliers.

And finally: You can't buy my good words, and you can't pay me to shut up.

For me, that sums it up without being complicated. Anything more edges into navel-gazing hand-wringing (just picture that and you'll laugh).

Re: Welcome to the ‘new look’ blog

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:40:26 -0000

Hey Professor Hopkins... love the new look! Crisp, easy to follow -- all the right stuff. I'll have to go back to the drawing board!

Allan

Re: Google Chrome Story: Digital Storytelling Example

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:23:29 -0000

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

Re: The Long Tail Phenomenom

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 12:05:17 -0000

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

Re: Bacon’s reaching out to bloggers

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 08:12:24 -0000

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.

Re: fame

Allan Jenkins — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:49:20 -0000

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

Re: Putting the ‘Me’ in Meme

Allan Jenkins — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 17:00:05 -0000

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

Re: Actually, you’re all wrong

Allan Jenkins — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 03:51:33 -0000

Good points.

Re: Nancy’s got a blog

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 15:03:31 -0000

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

Re: How not to pitch me

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:06:54 -0000

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

Re: Fly the unfriendly skies of Delta

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 09:21:20 -0000

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.

Re: World’s dirtiest screen

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:23:13 -0000

you touched it without surgical gloves? One brave Parmet!

Re: Tailor made

Allan Jenkins — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:41:25 -0000

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

Wonderful vid, though!

Re: Billy Jones notes my copyright is being infringed on

Allan Jenkins — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:28:53 -0000

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?