Month: January 2009
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Harris’ Law
I came across Harris’ Law due to Jason Calacanis. Jason Calacanis has touched on the issue of overconnectivity in a recent editon of his email newsletter. It dealt with more certainty about the adverse social effects that connectivity brings which I first heard raised by Eric Benhamou of 3Com when he spoke about a decade…
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Feedburner
Google is incorporating the Feedburner service that it acquired a couple of years ago into the Google infrastructure. So they’ve been getting Feedburner users like this blog to move to a Google ID. On the surface this makes sense as they are the masters of cloud computing and service provision. I had a good experience…
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Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris
Standard Operating Procedure: A War Story by Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris is on one level yet another book talking about the Iraq conflict, on another level it is a classic tale of realpolitik and the malaise of bureaucracy: a lack of resources, ignorance and revenge provided the ideal conditions to produce a barbaric regime…
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Search engine optimisation for PRs – a place to start anyway
Ok, I am not going to bother touching on the obvious questions like whether PR agencies have a place in search engine optimisation, or have a place at the marketing table at all anymore? Given my recent ‘29 not-very-technical things that every PR person should know‘ post, I thought a quick post on search engine…
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Guanxi online + other news
Guanxi 56minus1 :: ยป guanxi in the Chinese web :: – the rapid rise of Chinese social media has resulted in changes in guanxi. This means more pressure on the government to take action bypassing guanxi. Influencers and experts with a following have a new form of guanxi Business Yahoo Announces Next Steps in Open…