I don’t much care for traveling for work. Still, I have to admit that my ideal work environment is a first class airplane cabin. It is comfortable and quiet (especially with headphones). There are people around, but they are not distracting people. There are very few distractions (phones don’t work, Twitter isn’t updating, my email […]
Category Archives: Philos
Watching Numbers
February 26, 2008 – 5:36 pm
I just saw a great byline quote in an article in this months Entrepreneur magazine:
“Numbers that are tracked and watched are numbers that grow.”
Personally I believe a key to successful business is knowing which numbers to track and watch. Then again, I also tend to believe that you can spot most problems in those numbers […]
Handling Comment Spammers
February 7, 2008 – 12:56 pm
I have had a new round of comment spammers who are just hammering jaxn.org. I have resorted to dropping packets again. I first started doing this in 2005 (read how here).
So if all of the sudden you can’t see my blog then let me know I got a little too ambitious with the packet dropping. […]
Why I Voted for Barack Obama
February 5, 2008 – 10:45 am
Let me share a little about my political background. During the 2000 presidential primaries I had a front row seat for the action. I was living in New Hampshire working on youth voting issues and saw every major candidate (and some minor ones too). I was surrounded by optimistic and idealistic young people. We wanted […]
Corporate Charity Sucks
January 17, 2008 – 8:35 pm
There is a great opinion piece in the current issue of Conde Nast Portfolio about “why companies should forget social responsibility — and why we should let them”. I will look for a link later when I get online (found it). It is a great article and you should read it if you are interested […]
Integrating Mediacasting Channels
January 11, 2008 – 2:09 pm
I like Rex Hammock’s term “Mediacasting”; he is good at the semantics of “conversational media” (another term I got from Rex).
So, we are casting out communications on all these different channels: web sites, RSS feeds, Twitter, social networks (Facebook, Plaxo Pulse), email, etc. The goal is to make sure everyone is able to get the […]
