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Apple is truly letting its developers and managers move closer and closer to the ‘cluetrain‘ model that Doc, Chris, and David popularized a few years ago (when others said they were stupid and unknowledgeable idiots that couldn’t do any real work or produce anything worth keeping). Apple seems to be encouraging their developers and [...]

Go read Would You Really Follow a Manager into Battle?
If you feel there’s an insatiable force sucking up your energy and your children’s future, it’s Managerial Capitalism.
The key to Managerial Capitalism is a shortage of capital, not its abundance. This view requires an inversion in how we think of economic eras.
I personally had to tune [...]

Gloaming is today’s word of the day.
Anyone hear it before? It’s quite an important word in the history of our national sport of baseball.
10 points to the person that can tell everyone why. Leave a comment or blog it on your own weblog with a link to this post.

On Friday, I took the wife out with a bunch of friends. We went to Esther’s Follies, a great little comedy show in Austin. It’s on the corner of 6th and Red River in downtown.
Before the show went to eat at Stubb’s Bar-b-que just up the street, then walked over to Esther’s Follies. [...]

What is a favicon?
It’s a little 16×16 pixel icon that shows up next to a ‘favorite’ or ‘bookmark’ or the web address in various web browsers. There’s some good information here if you need more info.
(Welcome to the same web-world that most web surfers have been in for a while Safari users).

I got a new Dell Latitude 610 yesterday. It’s running Windows XP (which I’m finding I actually like using compared to all the other Windows variants I’ve used in the past.) I like Windows 2000, but hate all the other Windows environments I’ve ever used. None were ever nearly as elegant as [...]

I got the XPLANE|EXTRA! email newsletter today, and was surprised to read the title “How to manage the disorganized sales manager” especially after the request for ‘sales manager links‘ earlier in the week from a colleague.
The XPLANE newsletter includes links to two ‘visual xplanations’ which are quite good at getting the point across about disorganized [...]

A colleague on a mailing list I participate in today asked me for “any sales websites, online newsletters, or training (people or companies) for sales managers” that I could recommend.
I honestly haven’t ever found any ‘great’ sales (or sales management) related websites (thus the reason I started writing about sales) and have generally been frustated [...]

(Couldn’t help the title of this post, sorry).
I downloaded Safari yesterday from Apple. I couldn’t help, and at only 3.5 MB or so, the download size really wasn’t unbearable on dialup (whereas Mozilla by comparison weighs in at around 17 MB I think for Mac OS X).
Let me first say that after about 30 [...]

“If everyone is thinking alike then somebody isn’t thinking.” — George S. Patton
Keep that in mind in your meetings…

I think I was about 50/50 on my Apple predictions. I missed the new Powerbooks by a long shot and honestly had no idea they were coming out… I think I got the Airport 802.11g thing pretty closely nailed… even if I didn’t print it. I knew about the iLife bundle coming out, [...]

From an email a friend forwarded to me:
You see a handsome guy at a party. You go up to him and say, “I’m fantastic in bed.”
– That’s Direct Marketing.
You’re at a party with a bunch of friends and see a handsome guy. One of your friends goes up to him and pointing at you says, [...]

Awestruck
That’s all I have to say about that.

Adam Kalsey has a good article on why small businesses need websites. I’ve never really paid close attention to the ‘local’ market until here recently as I’m traditionally a national advertising sales person, but my new job has forced me into focusing on the local market, and one of the objections I’m hearing to [...]

I agree (with Bill) that the Ohio State win over Miami was a great game. In fact, I’d go so far as calling in the ‘best college football game ever televised’.
We watched it from the very crowded second floor of the downtown Austin Fox and the Hound, which I’d recommend to anyone wanting a [...]

Our realtor called today. She sounded very excited when I answered the phone. The wife and I were in the middle of a quick walk along Town Lake (I think that’s the lake we were on) which is really just the dammed up part of the Colorado River that flows through downtown Austin. [...]

So, I’ve been struggling with a completely manual sales CRM solution at work for about a month now, and I’m seeing a lot of inefficiency that could be greatly improved with something that helped tie all of the sales persons, clients, and the whole process together.
I’ve been trying to find time to investigate SalesForce.com’s solutions [...]

Its fun to see ‘inluminent/weblog’ in the top links from LinkMonger even if it’s silly, or only thanks to 43 ‘clicks’ from their readers (as of this posting).
More fun, is to see that the last person to show up in my ‘referers’ coming from the LinkMonger website’s IP address resolves back to Apple.com. Now [...]

Ok, so c|net says so, and I’ve heard so from other sources (didn’t want to give it away myself):
Apple will be charging for upgrades to ’some’ iApp upgrades in the future…
the pricepoint will likely be $50 for ‘all’ upgrades … I don’t know if that’ll be for the download prices, or for a CD-ROM [...]

Hmmm… Looks like this might be fun to attend: The Bloggies will be presented at SXSW Interactive, which takes place in Austin this year in March. Think you’re weblog’s got the right stuff? Go nominate yourself, or if you think this weblog’s good enough, go nominate it. I think I’ll attend the [...]

I’m quoting a partner of mine here:
Rafat Ali of PaidContent.org speculates on blogs getting acquired by mainstream media in 2003, suggesting that MarketingFix (which I help produce) is ripe for eMarketer to buy. Not a bad idea, in my opinion…
– Rick Bruner
Sounds like a good idea to me too, but we’ve got so much to [...]

Ok, my Apple Predictions post from earlier this morning, needs a little revision. I just talked to some of my sources…
It looks like all we’ll really see out of Apple at MWSF is some softare updates, maybe an iApp bundle (that they’re actually going to charge money for) and an upgrade to Airport (think 802.11g [...]

As a follow up to my latest “On Looking for a Job” post, I followed a link to this article on getting your resume read via a link through Keith Devens’s weblog.
If I can add a few tips/techinques:
1. Instead of submitting your resume via a webform or monster.com, call the company in question and ask [...]

Top 10 Google Myths Revealed, by Chris Beasley, is a must read for anyone doing web development work where search engine ranking is important.
1. The Higher Your Google PageRank (PR), the Higher You’ll be in the Search Results Listing
2. The Google Toolbar will List Your Actual PageRank
3. PageRank is a Value Based on the Number [...]

<Note to Self>
Add Custom Buttons to the MarketingFix Entry interface for easier ‘blockquoting’
<End Note to Self>

Macworld has put together 12 opinions from some heavy hitters in the market on what Apple’s going to come out with next year, as well as general Mac market trends.
RailHeadDesign says to expect mainly software updates at MacWorld San Francisco, possibly some small hardware updates, and maybe a Bluetooth capable piece of hardware from Apple [...]

This QuickLink Mobile Kit for Mac OS X looks pretty damned awesome, and it supports my Sony Ericson T68i on AT&T’s network, so that means I can actually use something to easily use my cell phone to get on the internet. This might come in hady some day when I’m on the road. [...]

I haven’t played Spaceward Ho! in years, but this truly was one of the most fun strategy games I’ve ever played, and looks pretty good under OS X from the screenshots I’ve seen.
I’ll have to order the newest version soon… just too much fun from back in the day. I didn’t even know it [...]

Last night, the wife and I went over to a friend’s house to ring in the new year. The friend’s husband is a Mac guy, and a photographer in his life outside of work. He’s very good and has been taking pictures (mainly portraits) professionally for a while now.
He’s also a gadget guy, [...]

Now Steven’s post on the Segway is just too funny:
John Robb: “Everyone who rides a Segway, wants to own a Segway.”
There has been a lot of Segway stuff showing up in the blogging community (and elsewhere) lately. The consensus seems to be that it’s a truly wonderful thingy indeed.
I wrote about my Segway experience [...]