May 2009
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I was overseen to have said
An IT Conversations interview on Framing the Net. At eComm 2009. On how free customers are more better than captive ones. At The Ideas Project. I spoke in closer to final draft than usual here. A transcript. Some samples: What we’ve had since companies won the Industrial Revolution is the belief that a captive customer… Continue reading
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#Jesusitafire postpile for 7 May
I’ll post the rest of today’s observations here. Times are Pacific. The LA Times has an excellent set of 53 photos that start here. 10:32am Twitter search for #jesusita or #jesusitafire. Listening to KTYD, where they’re reviewing the news conference I missed. (Hey, business goes on.) Lots of cooperation. All businesses on State Street are… Continue reading
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New Jesusita Fire Perimeter
The above shows the situation, somehat. It’s a MODIS overlay on a Google Earth terrain view looking north from over downtown Santa Barbara. Go to that shot and mouse over for more. Meanwhile, it’s clear that at least some hot spots have spread into the back country, above the city. But if those fires are… Continue reading
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Some clues for covering wildfires
With all due respect to the good jobs that most of the legacy media are doing, their coverage could be much, much better if they paid respect to those listening and watching online, which includes their smart phones. What they need are plain hard facts, rather than the vague, boiled-down or sensationalized stuff that was… Continue reading
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Jesusita Fire Watch
We’re in Boston, watching neighborhoods near our own in Santa Barbara, burning as the Jesusita Fire spreads south out of the mountains and into town. KSBY is running a live feed from a helicopter here. The audio is on constantly, so you can hear the pilot talking with the studio when reporters aren’t. Here are… Continue reading
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An early start to the fire season
Nothing on Inciweb yet on the Jesusita wildland fire above Santa Barbara’s San Roque district, on the slope of the Santa Ynez mountains, very close to town. Meanwhile Twitter is all over it. Or, citizen reporters are all over Twitter. Either way, it’s the Live Web at work. By the latest report, about 160 acres… Continue reading
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Beyond ownership
Tristan Louis asks, Is ownershp passe? Or, from his first paragraph, “…our ownership society seems to be started a slide towards a new mode of being: a rental society.” He uses the examples of Netflix, Apple, Kindle and build vs. buy vs. rent choices at the enterprise level, and suggests, “The change in our relationship… Continue reading
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East Coasters, look up
Glaring Rocket Launch Could Surprise East Coast Residents Tuesday Evening reads the headline of a post by Joe Rao at Space.com. In it he points to a video I taped in 2005 with my kid of a similar launch on the west coast. You can watch it here. The launch will take place on Wallops… Continue reading
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On advertising and search
Dave asks, When Google has to cut its own revenue stream by enhancing search, will they do it? Good question. Here is another: Has Google’s success at advertising slowed its innovations around search? And, How far will Google go with search engine improvements if there’s clearly no advertising money in it? I’m not suggesting answers… Continue reading
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A tip of the asshat
I’m trying not to blog. I really am. Everything I’ve blogged today is finished leftovers or mooshed-together debris thrown off by Actual Work. But not this post here. This is one I have to put up because I can’t help pointing to this post by Chris Locke — cuz it’s good and it made me… Continue reading
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Silos End
Thanks to Keith McArthur for clueing me in on Cluetrainplus10, in which folks comment on each of Cluetrain’s 95 theses, on roughly the 10th anniversary of the day Cluetrain went up on the Web. (It was around this time in 1999.) The only thesis I clearly remember writing was the first, “Markets are conversations.” That… Continue reading
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Follow the falling brick road
New England is full of ruins. Woods everywhere are veined with stone walls, relics of an agrarian age that ended when the industrial one began. Shipping canals, which were thick with horse-drawn cargo when the Thoreau brothers rowed past them up the Concord & Merrimack Rivers, were abandoned once railroads did the same job better.… Continue reading