75 posts tagged Searls

Many of today’s companies recognize the urgency of converting to a customer-centric, social web-based, operation. The excuses and faulty logic brought on by global prosperity have been replaced by an honest examination of internal operations and external market share.

May 11th, 2008 by Doc Searls The main problem with "social networking" isn't just that your "social" life has corporate boundaries.

Warning: this article gets a little ranty, but please, bear with me and help improve my thoughts by commenting. Doc Searls of Linux Journal linked recently in his article Is government open source code we can patch? to an article by Britt Blasser entitled “Oh, if only government went in for an open source make-over…”.

Send Doc Searls info on making money with Linux verses because of Linux.

When I wrote that Sidecut Reports was launched to save tech journalism, I was only partly kidding. Reading this post from Doc Searls makes me think I have allies in the argument that says the hunt for revenue via online ads and more click-throughs is a race to zero.

I have an Ad Design degree from Syracuse University, admittedly much more so because I was convinced by my father that I needed a stable job coming out of college than out of any incessant love for crafting adverts. Illustration was my passion as an adolescent — political cartooning to be precise — but she wasn’t too stable of a pursuit, so I caved early on.

I was having a chat this morning with Simon Chen, and those readers who’ve been with me a while know I can’t say enough good things about the man - even if he doesn’t get Twitter yet. One thing we were talking about was having a large email database vs. a smaller database that was actively engaged by your offering.

I am reading The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. Great reading. Here is a quick quote: "Capitalizing on advances in the power of microprocessors and the capacity data storage systems, fledgling utilities are beginning to build massive and massively efficient information processing plants, and

Reading The Big Switch May 1st, 2008 I am reading The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. Great reading. Here is a quick quote: “Capitalizing on advances in the power of microprocessors and the capacity data storage systems Co.

After an stunning week last week having attended one of the best conferences this year in NY, at least, to me, here I am faithful to that weekly blog post where I get to detail what the weekly progress report on giving up work related e-mail has been thus far and what key findings I have learned through the last seven days.