I like a good instigator who can clown. It appears that geogeller, a.k.a. "Insultant for Hire" is such a man. He's personal Insultant to @JeffPulver, a humanitarian and recovering artist who lists his rate as "$10,000 a seance." Not wanting to price himself out of the market, he does allow for a sliding scale. The Insultant says, "a Consultant gets paid and tells you what you want to hear (whereas) an Insultant …
Big Ideas Move Product, But Great Big Ideas Move People To A Higher Place
The more I read from writer, artist and coder Jonathan Harris, the more I like the guy. He's a humanist and the world is in desperate need of humanists, now as ever. In a piece on his site about how he looses touch with his humanity when deep inside a coding project, he shares a conversation he had with a friend about her experience this year at SXSW. She described a sense of euphoria there among them -- an excited …
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Guy’s On A Mission To Do
Every Sunday The New York Times Business section profiles an exec in its "Corner Office" series. Today the exec is Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of the Alltop news aggregation site and a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. image courtesy of Flickr user, Thomas Hawk There are two areas that Kawasaki covers that I'd like to share with you here. The first is about how a company instills a sense of mission in …
You Can’t Fool Brother Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk was prank called at 5:00 am while in Austin for SXSW. Listen to how he handles it. The dude is quick. Vaynerchuk says, "What I think is interesting here is we now live in a very transparent world and every interaction maybe recorded. The question is, if I handled this differently would it have impacted how some may look at me?" The video was posted to YouTube by lalawag, a Los Angeles-based tech …
A Clever Interruption Is Still An Interruption
Brian Wiener, CEO of 360i spoke about creating the "Agency of the Future" last week at the IAB Ecosystem conference in Carlsbad, Calif. Jodi Harris, senior editor at iMedia Connection, was there. To illustrate the need for affordable, consumer-centric innovation, Wiener related the example of "Amanda," who was shopping in a Barnes & Noble store. Amanda found a book she wanted, but before purchasing it, she took a …
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Got Blue Chips? Great, Dinner’s On Smith & Wollensky
I'm a big fan of barter and have been turning to this ancient form of exchange more and more over the last year. Taken to its logical conclusion, a person could get by on very little money if his or her basic needs are met through barter. Right now, I'm bartering creative services for office space with one client, and copy for design in another instance. But I'd love to go much further with this model. For instance, …
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Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Cyborg Aerobics
PORTLAND--Around the corner from Wieden + Kennedy, through an unmarked door on NW Davis St., geeks gather daily to pursue their projects as part of Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). Last night the gathering included about 40 guests intent on hearing from Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web, one of the leading tech journalists in the nation, and easily the top blogger in Portland. His talk, "Gather Signal from …
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Monday Meditation: Beyond Social Media, There Is Social Production
John Willshire, Head of Innovation at PHD Media in London asks, "How do you socialize production?" He says the answers to this question add up to a new "blueprint for the communications industry." His point is we need to stop searching for the one big idea that can be communicated in a mass channel. In its place will be lots and lots of ideas all through the company, that bring customers into product development and …
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