Blogtree: the lineage of blogs…
The newest addition to the nav bar on the left side of this site is my Blogtree link. You can see the blogs that inspired me to start blogging; blogs that were inspired by the same “parents”; and blogs that I’ve inspired there. Kind of a cool idea—and when I checked about 1100 blogs had [...]
Run it up the middle (again and again)
It would appear that the fans of my college football team, the Virginia Cavaliers, can’t take a joke. Greg thinks he caused the problem, but I’m sure that the original poster could have come across the poems in question through Google, where they are hit #6 for the good coach. (Note: The new link for [...]
Doc: Know your customer
Doc: More on what’s fucked about radio. Doc lays the blame for the sorry state of commercial radio at the feet of radio’s business model, which treats the listener as secondary to pleasing the advertiser.
This is another reason I grew to dislike Ziff Davis magazines. After a while, I realized that the stuff [...]
Credit where credit is due
The title for my previous post referred to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,” my new favorite way to say “fiddling while Rome is burning.” Credit for the phrase belongs to Eric Norlin, whose Titanic Deck Chair Rearrangement Corporation is required reading for marketing folks who fondly imagine that they understand their customer.more…
Rearranging Deck Chairs on the Titanic…
Time: Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented? Scary view into how the sloth-like, generally arteriosclerotic processes of government caused a plan to take out Al Qaeda to be lost during the transition between the Clinton administration and the Harken-Halliburton administration. The article details a series of missed opportunities, the detailed warnings that a big attack was [...]
Move count: Two Jarretts
Esta moved into a new place in downtown Richmond this weekend. Apparently she’s quite happy with her new place, 6-minute commute and all.
One word of advice to Esta for her new place’s hardwood floors: Swiffers. A finer cleaning product has yet to be seen. Not an employee, just a happy customer. Procter [...]
