“‘Community’ is a very big word right now. The trend is toward community and closer interactions with customers.” – Charlene Li
(live from Blogher)
Who Are You?
“I have made a distinction between pseudonymous blogs and ‘other identity’ blogs. A pseudonymous blog is written by someone under an anonymous identity, who fully admits that his or her identity is secret. An ‘other identity’ blog is one that the blogger writes under an identity that is not his or her ‘true’ identity and is not disclosed to be ‘other’. I have decided to use the word ‘other’ to remove moral implications that words such as false or fake carry. I also italicize truth because truth is a subjective concept upon a large continuum of experience.” – Stephanie Hendrick (more here)
Ask Patty
The Difference Is: Spin
“Girls have ‘shopping blogs’ and guys have ‘cool hunting’ sites.” – From the room discussion from the commercial venture session at BlogHer.
Get Real
“People can smell fake a million miles away.” – Maggie Mason, on using blogs for commercial ventures.
We All Have To Eat
“Food is political. It cuts across class, race, gender.” – Shuna Fish Lydon
(live from blogher06)
Well, There Ya Go
“Blogging is like the gateway drug of technology.” – Elisa Camahort
(live from blogher06)
Off To BlogHer
Web 2.0 and The Letter “e”: The Interview
Ever wonder why Flickr, Frappr, Soonr, Zooomr and a host of other companies are spelled the way they are? Link to the full interview here..
“After hitting it big during the dot-com boom of the 90’s, the tech world’s best-known letter comes out of seclusion for a rare conversation.
The flurry of activity in “Web 2.0” has unleashed a number of rising stars. Perhaps the best known is photo-sharing site Flickr, but others such as 37Signals and del.icio.us have also ascended to prominence over the past eighteen months. However, the darling of the dot-com bubble — the letter “e” — is conspicuously missing and has decided to take a wait and see attitude this time around.
In an exclusive e-mail exchange with our editors, the reclusive vowel talks about what he’s been doing since the year 2000, his investment strategy, and his thoughts on whether we’ve entered a new technology bubble. He joins us from his yacht just outside of Antibes on the French Riviera (recently purchased from legendary venture capitalist Tom Perkins).”
Time For Perspective…Or Maybe The Other Way Around
Doc is stranded with the kid in Dulles.
His story triggered a memory a few years old. A while back, I took a trip with the male offspring, and we were traveling in the dead of winter from Whitefish, Montana back to the Bay Area. He was about 2 1/2 at the time, and we ended up stranded in the Missoula airport after a similar connection debacle. The whole trip, end-to-end, was about thirteen hours.
It was, for all intents and purposes*, effortless.
The big “a-ha” for me was that, from his perspective, he hadn’t yet formed the abstract concept of being “late.” Everything he was doing was in the moment…from running around the airport to looking at planes to playing games to staring at the mangy stuffed grizzly in the lobby. It was just another day of adventure, which they all are at that age.
Thanks again for that, little guy. You taught me a lot that day about perspective.
* – which is neither “intensive purposes” nor “intensive porpoises,” which I’ve also heard. gah.
(photo credit: johnny jet)
