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Re: 50 People On ‘The Most Intellectual Joke I Know’

Joel Postman — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:37:20 -0000

A tourist asks a Boston cab driver, "Where I can get scrod around here?" The cab driver replies, "There are plenty of places, but it's not often I hear someone ask using the third-person pluperfect indicative!"

Re: Jeremiah’s new venture; moving on from Altimeter

Joel Postman — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 13:58:45 -0000

Jeremiah, you're one of the people who defined social media and gave others a foothold in the profession in its earliest days. Nice job helping take social media and social business from the realm of fad to that of bona fide corporate communications practice. Like everyone, I am always looking forward to your next venture which is certain to be successful and groundbreaking.

Re: Would You Buy a Smartphone Made of Bamboo?

Joel Postman — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 15:52:45 -0000

Samsung III with a bamboo housing? I'll take one!

Re: Cyber Security Experts Warn Against QR Codes

Joel Postman — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 14:10:09 -0000

The biggest risk here is probably poorly written QR reader apps. I have a handful of QR apps and a couple do offer previews of the URL. I don't think there's really much risk here, especially since smartphones are not nearly as popular a target for viruses and malicious attacks as the Windows desktop environment. It seems more to me like new tech paranoia.

For years we've heard horror stories about supermarket scanners "overcharging," yet scanners are optoelectronic devices that don't have the intelligence to assign a price -- this happens in the store database. With all of this fear, every day I watch people who have forgotten their store loyalty cards give their home phone numbers out loud to retail clerks, thereby sharing this info with everyone in line. People are completely irrational when it comes to new technology.

Re: Worst Scheduled Tweet Timing. Ever.

Joel Postman — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:17:14 -0000

Doesn't seem as if Bilal is blaming interns. "Stop hiring intern talent" places the blame on the people who build social media programs and hire and train talent, not on the social media people themselves. This particular story is probably more a case of poor planning, sloppiness and lack of oversight, but I agree that companies get what they pay for if they hire social media people who lack the context and experience to represent the company.

Re: I Don't Understand What Anyone Is Saying Anymore

Joel Postman — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:37:48 -0000

Orwell predicted it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Businessspeak is the language of evasion. We used to say, "I"ll call you Tuesday," which was a commitment. Now we say, "Let's touch base sometime next week," which means nothing. We say "issues" because we don't want to admit to the existence of "problems." We say "input" because we don't want to commit to actually doing anything someone else suggests we do.

Re: The Importance Of Marshall McLuhan And His Ideas - SVW

Joel Postman — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 19:56:36 -0000

Great piece, Tom. My favorite McLuhan quote that eerily predicted the age of social media "Publication is self-invasion of privacy."

Re: California Freelancers Find Work, Decent Pay Harder To Come By | paidContent

Joel Postman — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:00:55 -0000

Were it only true that $10 an hour is the "floor." Through a proliferation of microworker sites, writers are being paid less than a penny a word, which works out to around $3 an hour for the most proficient writer. The following "requirement" was posted on Article Slash:

“Hi, I need a group of writers or writing teams who can deliver 20-30 articles of 300 words every day. Payout will be made everyday through paypal.. 0.75$ for every 300 word article.”

Seventy-five cents per article! That’s .0025 per word, one quarter of a penny! If you could write 1200 words per hour (I’m a professional writer and I can’t), you could make $3 an hour doing this.

Re: It’s Official: I’ll be working at The National Art Gallery of Singapore

Joel Postman — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:24:55 -0000

Congratulations, Kevin! That absolutely sounds like an amazing dream job.

Re: Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril – An Analysis of Potential

Joel Postman — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:34:49 -0000

Twitter was dismissed for years. People are still bashing the iPhone and excited to have the iPad as a new whipping boy. Marshal McLuhan said it best, “Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.”

Re: Engage

Joel Postman — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:46:11 -0000

Congratulations, Brian. With your insight and talent, this book cannot help but become the standard for the new web marketing industry.

Re: The Irony of Continuous Innovation [repost]

Joel Postman — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:52:32 -0000

"Innovation bears the same relation to the mainstream as does a concept car to a factory model." So true, and in many cases the companies that can break through and bring innovation directly to the marketplace have unusual (read megalomaniacal) leadership models in place. I am thinking of Tesla and Apple, both recognized for true technological innovation and both only able to do so because of a leader who had not been fully sucked into the vortex of shareholder expectations.

Re: MillionDollarDrew: Drew Carey’s $1 Million Twitter Username Bid Gets a Website

Joel Postman — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:06:23 -0000

I did not intend to call into question the motivations of those behind this promotion as much as the variation with which Twitter's Terms of Service are applied.

Re: MillionDollarDrew: Drew Carey’s $1 Million Twitter Username Bid Gets a Website

Joel Postman — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:12:40 -0000

Interesting. Twitter's TOS prohibits "creating accounts for the purpose of selling those accounts"
http://twitter.zendesk.com/forums/26257/entries...

Promotion of schemes to add followers is also prohibited.

Re: MillionDollarDrew: Drew Carey’s $1 Million Twitter Username Bid Gets a Website

Joel Postman — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:11:53 -0000

Re: HOW TO: Get the Most Out of Twitter #Hashtags

Joel Postman — Mon, 18 May 2009 00:29:05 -0000

Hashtags are not "one of the most complex features of Twitter" but are in fact, a workaround for the lack of a sorely needed Twitter feature, namely groups. Other microblogging environments, like Yammer and Presently, and of course FriendFeed, have groups which allow users to categorize their friends' lists.

One of the most powerful uses of groups is for chats. Members of any group, a company, a workgroup, attendees of a conference, or participants in any of the popular Twitter chats could all join a group which would eliminate the need for hashtags.

The # is useful when common English language words are used, but unnecessary when unique, semi-nonsensical strings are used, or for totally unique terms like "iPhone." The whole hashtagging thing is a mess, and confuses the heck out of neophytes and experienced Twitter users alike. Hopefully Twitter will get more actual features (as opposed to removing features) that will eliminate the need for manually inserted hashtags and take away this layer of confusion and waste of characters.

Re: Twitter Co-Founder: “We’re Not For Sale”

Joel Postman — Thu, 07 May 2009 00:43:12 -0000

The Apple rumor is/was nonsense. Apple isn't in that business or anything close to it. If the Twitter founders were going to sell, there's no reason for them to take less than $1B.

Re: 10 Simple Ways to Show Kindness Online

Joel Postman — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:02:47 -0000

This is an awesome post, Brett. This is what it's all about. I launched the Social Media Love Manifesto wiki http://socialmediamanifesto... earlier this year as my humble attempt to persuade people to be nicer online. Your post really brings this concept to life.

Re: Confirmed: Skype Changes the Game and Releases the iPhone App

Joel Postman — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:11:21 -0000

According to your first paragraph, "Skype has released an official app for the iPhone, available at the iPhone app store." Skype may be about to launch (Tuesday) an iPhone app but it does not appear to have done so yet.

Re: Meet Yongfook, Joel Postman, and Melvin Yuan @ BlogOut 2009

Joel Postman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:04:41 -0000

Thanks for the promo Kevin. I think. People with inquiring minds may want to check out my tell-all blog post which rips the covers off of "The Awful Truth About Blogout09" http://is.gd/kDBr

Re: sMoRTy71.com: I am mentioned in "SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate"

Joel Postman — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:41:58 -0000

Thanks for the blog mention (and I saw your tweet as well). By leaving this comment, the circle is now complete, as Darth Vader said. I can personally assure you, with no bias, that every page of SocialCorp is as engaging and compelling as page 14.

Re: Davos: Peter Gabriel sings Biko, a capella

Joel Postman — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:41:57 -0000

Once he gets into it, Peter Gabriel is awesome and Biko is inspiring as ever.

Re: Twitter-Effect on Consumer Decision Making

Joel Postman — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:06:16 -0000

Great post, Alexander. I have often struggled with trying to explain this effect to people without being too warm and fuzzy. The brand affinity concept is a powerful one. I think we are more inclined to "like" a company, think well of it and even do business with it simply because the company has engaged in open conversation on Twitter or elsewhere. It is a difficult to measure but important outcome of doing social media.

Re: Social Media Narcissism

Joel Postman — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:30:43 -0000

A great post, Shey, and a favorite topic of mine. I try to diversify my friends lists, and I have been very fortunate to get to know artists, writers, troublemakers, anarchists, environmentalists, and people in all kinds of professions (or not in any profession) all over the world. The whole social networking experience is so much more rewarding when we get outside the narrowness of our own familiar circles.

Re: There Is No More Internet

Joel Postman — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:39:15 -0000

I was unable to comment due to the recent and untimely closing down of the Internet. Its loss is felt, if only briefly.