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Job Search: Define Your Goals
A friend of mine just landed a job. Congratulations to her as the job market is shriveling up. I won’t mention her name for fear it could cause complications at her new job but many of you know her. She hasn’t worked for a company in 17 years, give or take, and has lived quite…
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The Difference Between Designers and Marketers
A reader of this blog, recently, inquired about the difference between Designers and Marketers. I took some time to think about it and came to so many conclusions that it was Wicked Marketing entry worthy. This won’t be as snarky as my usual posts, but then again I’ve been known to surprise myself now and…
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Brian Beutler, Washington D.C. Political Blogger, Shot
I want to give a shout out to Brian Beutler of Media Consortium who was shot last night in Adams Morgan. I wrote on it over at Washington Hotlist a few minutes ago. I have never met Brian. I hope to some day and chances are good since he’s in stable condition and expected to…
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GNIP Spells a Whole New World for Data APIs
Allow me to get nerdy. It has been a long time since I got downright giddy about something developer-oriented. Lots of new APIs are coming out all the time and I usually take a once over look at them to determine if there is something cool there. A lot of time there are cool things…
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Flamewars in the Blogosphere
I don’t want to be the guy that shines a spotlight on the many varied and obscene warts that exist in the blogosphere. Far be it from me to hold myself up as an example of exemplary behavior. However, there is a disturbing trend in the world of blogs these days and it really needs…
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PopTok: usa tus pelÃculas favoritas para enviar un mensaje
Ya no tendrás que escribir “Hasta la vista, Baby!” o “Groovy!” en tus mensajes. Gracias a PopTok, podrás utilizar un video clip de tu escena favorita para transmitir tu mensaje. PopTok, respaldada por Mickey Schulhof (anterior jefe ejecutivo de Sony America) y Jerusalem Venture Partners, y dirigida por Scott Kauffman, ex-Yahoo!, piensa ofrecer su servicio…
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10 Things You Need to Know About WordPress 2.6
WordPress 2.6 is around the corner (sometime next week, it looks like), and as usual, there’s a bunch of changes, improvements, enhancements that have went into this version. In my opinion, this is an odd major release. While there are certainly major new changes that warrant a new major release, much of the release consists…
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John Smith for President
Chesapeake Bay Foundation has its own presidential nominee. Forget Obama or McCain or Nader or what’s that other guy. Captain John Smith is running for President and he needs your help. That’s right, Capt. John Smith of colonial days. His love of the Chesapeake Bay and the environment extends to today. Smith, when asked about…
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Lessons from Wall*E
Normally, I would not do movie reviews on this site. I would generally use aaronbrazell.com which is much more of a personal site than this. However, there are quite a lot of lessons and hidden agenda items (good and bad) in Wall*E that I think are applicable. If you’re afraid of spoilers, you might not…
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Play to Strengths
Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. Jeremy Schoemaker is a rockstar in SEO. Darren Rowse is a rockstar in making money online. Erin is a rockstar among women bloggers. Thomas Hawk is a rockstar photographer. Brad Feld (a Lijit investor) is a rockstar VC. Chris Brogan is a rockstar people person. Alex Hillman is…