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Re: Episode 111: (Part 1of2)Analogies are Destroying the Country

tomguarriello — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:44:46 -0000

You mean like, "death tax" and "death panels" did?

Re: Microsoft’s new CEO’s first stupid comment

tomguarriello — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:20:58 -0000

I read my wife exact those lines when I saw the letter. Why say something like that?

Re: John Roderick reviews Kelly Clarkson’s Christmas...

tomguarriello — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 11:26:21 -0000

Do you know John Roderick, Paul? He's hilarious.

Re: How Purchasing with a Purpose Adds to Personal Identity

tomguarriello — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 08:23:40 -0000

Nicely said, Maxine.

Brands need to be careful in this new landscape, however. Attaching your brand to my self (or, one of them, anyway) heightens my attention to the brand's behavior. When laundry soap was just laundry soap—something to get clothes clean—I could purchase it based on features and benefits; mindlessly. Now that it's part of a part of my identity, I'm liable to raise the purchase ante to include its role in the world, which is a lot trickier for the brand to manage than the four Ps.

Re: Jony Ive Cares

tomguarriello — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 11:32:11 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

tomguarriello — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 09:47:27 -0000

Yes, I know about the fingerprinting/removal policy. Didn't realize you were reposting material from copyright holder. Thanks for clarification.

Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

tomguarriello — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:54:30 -0000

Fred, I don't understand how you're able to post copyrighted material to Soundcloud without having it removed. Am I missing something?

Re: Why is Kim Kardashian popular? Because of the...

tomguarriello — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:04:44 -0000

Done!

Re: Why is Kim Kardashian popular? Because of the...

tomguarriello — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:21:59 -0000

Interesting idea!!!

Re: A brilliant, simple way to explain complex, scary...

tomguarriello — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 22:10:04 -0000

I think it has something to do with my theme but it's the Stationery theme, which is pretty vanilla. Odd if there's no comment/notes option in that one.

Re: A brilliant, simple way to explain complex, scary...

tomguarriello — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 09:48:40 -0000

Yeah, it's working through Disqus. But I can't get that little note bubble feature to work, like you have on yours. Can't figure that out.

Re: Why Apple IS Different In the old way of...

tomguarriello — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 11:10:39 -0000

Yes, that's the point, Paul. Those old categories are falling by the wayside. It's hard to call Apple a traditional luxury brand (think Hermes or Prada) when the only items the average person could get with their logo on them were knockoffs. Now, Apple puts all those store in all those malls and the result is the greatest sales/sq. ft numbers in retailing history. Luxury for the masses.

Re: Instagram says: we're not going to sell your photos. Honest. But users don't trust them because they're now part of Facebook.

tomguarriello — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 07:22:11 -0000

Good one, Myles!

Re: Locatelli

tomguarriello — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:16:37 -0000

It's the real deal at Tino's Deli. My friends Giancarlo and Rosa definitely have nothing but authentic merchandise.

Re: http://fantasticbabblings.com/post/691936466

tomguarriello — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:24:19 -0000

Wow. That's all I can say...wow.

Hope everything turns out well, Phil.

Re: Thank You For Spreading The Word!

tomguarriello — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 07:44:37 -0000

Congrats on ShePost's first week, Esther. The site is both informative and entertaining, a winning combination. Oh, and as for "gossip," the NYTimes has now officially proclaimed Gossip Blogger as a profession! http://www.nytimes.com/2010...

Re: http://fantasticbabblings.com/post/459211248

tomguarriello — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:56:45 -0000

Well, they worked! Very nice, Phil.

Re: Still Waiting for An Evil Google? It's Not Going to Happen.

tomguarriello — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 08:08:43 -0000

Left my comment about this post on Google Reader, which only means those evil geniuses from Mountain View will now have even MORE info about me. Oh, my! Nicely said, Louis.

Re: Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet

tomguarriello — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:14:13 -0000

I'm 62. Guess that makes us both curvebusters!

Re: Stats Confirm It: Teens Don’t Tweet

tomguarriello — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:11:28 -0000

Here's one.

Re: First One to This Standard Wins

tomguarriello — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:00:18 -0000

Nice. One problem is the notion of the "default" approach to customer interaction. The phone tree, website design, community building and information sharing defaults are all designed/executed to manage customers, not to establish healthy relationships with us. The M in CRM trumps both the R and, ultimately, the C. Kevin Kelly wrote a great piece about defaults on his blog today. Worth a read. http://www.kk.org/thetechni...

Re: Symmetric Follow and Second Twitter Accounts

tomguarriello — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:35:50 -0000

I like the use of the word "undertow" in this context.

Re: Correspondence Is Making A Comeback

tomguarriello — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 12:00:52 -0000

Interesting. I've been thinking about McLuhan's "tetrad" this weekend. McLuhan asked four questions about every technology:

1. What does it enhance?
2. What does it obsolesce?
3. What does it revive?
4. When fully deployed, what reversal of an older technology does it encourage?

So, let's see, the telephone enhanced real time, person-to-person communication. As you point out, it made letter writing largely obsolete. It revived the intimacy of the village which began to be lost with increased mobility. Now that it is fully deployed, we see a revival of the written word but with the reach enabled by electronic means. I suspect we're also seeing a re-appreciation of the "localness" that was lost when anybody could talk to anyone, anywhere, anytime. (Remember when a "long distance call" meant something special?)

Re: Obama's bone-headedness, day 2 (Scripting News)

tomguarriello — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 17:01:59 -0000

I saw Warren at TED and found him to be an interesting, intelligent person. That doesn't mean I believe any bit of what he does, but I was impressed with him that day.

Re: My Vision For Social Media

tomguarriello — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:31:57 -0000

Good to see someone make the distinction between being an extravert and being outgoing. These are two very different things, although the popular use of the term "extrovert" had made them equivalent in most people's minds. I find extraverts, like myself, eager to gain energy from online interaction as well as RL f-2-f contact. The distinctions will always remain but for digital natives they're blurring. Outgoing communicators, also like myself, find the online world, especially video, highly attractive as a means of quickly working out ideas and presenting them for others reactions. Just as I found when I started blogging four years ago. Good comment, PCGuy and excellent post, Fred. Many, like Mike Arrington, will argue that you're overstating the appetite for expression by a factor of 100, but these are likely to have been the same reactions people received at the idea that everyone would want a telephone in their home, or a cell phone in their pocket. Who would they all possibly need to speak with? The answer: everybody else.