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The Carpet Cleaning Confession

Confession: I spent a summer as a carpet cleaner.
Twice.
The 2nd go-round was quite different, however, in that we had GPS to guide us through the various suburbs surrounding Madison. As I thought back on this earlier today, I realized that even though we had GPS, the anxiety of finding and arriving at the location on [...]

Taking Action Now

It’s true, maybe you only need a couple of days to do something great. Right now is the best time to test that for yourself.

Google Zeitgeist 2009

Interesting that acai berry was the fastest rising food and drink search term. I guess that would explain the load of ads all over the internet pitching weight loss (without workouts!).
A lot of people made a lot of money via this berry. Wonder what the next one will be.

Sex and Profit

VCs Say The Biggest Opportunities In Mobile Are Not Sexy Apps [mocoNews.net]
You wouldn’t guess it by looking at where VC’s plunk their money, but consumer cash doesn’t necessarily flow towards sex appeal… when it comes to web apps. Peruse any conversation with web2.0 fan boys and you notice it focuses around design, elegance, and “the [...]

Converting .flac files to .mp3

I’ve been recently jamming to some freely available Yonder Mountain String Band, but ran into the issue of converting .flac files into .mp3 format on a mac. If this problem ails you too, click the link and experience salvation.

I ask Fenton whether he feels at all overwhelmed. He considers this, and shifts in his seat. Yes, he says, finally, but the good still outweighs the bad. “Years ago I was a kid sitting in a room by myself and the world was a big place,” he says, looking out past the porch. “Now [...]

TV and the Web

The challenge for the networks, whose total prime-time audience shrank 3.6 percent last season, is that Web viewing and ad sales, while increasing, are still too small to replace traditional revenue sources.
CBS’s April 6 broadcast of the U.S. collegiate basketball championship game, for instance, attracted 17.6 million viewers, according to [...]

At your next networking event

It was Internet Week in New York City last week. Rowdy.
Here’s 3 questions that seem to work well at networking events:

What are surprising things about the business?
What are the next 3 big ideas for your project?
What have been your most important/key learnings so far?

Not your run of the mill schmooze lobs, but that’s the [...]

With or Without Your Glasses

Find the download link (click for larger):

One would expect such an important (critical!) button to be the shining star of this download page.
… Especially on a website about marketing.

Clutter

Is this really the best we can do?

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