WordPress; Curiosity; Google, Kansas
A week of interesting news, life, and creation. Wordpress went real-time. Scott Adams wrote of Curiosity. The moon has water. A town is being renamed Google. What a wonderful world!
Data as Sound: NYTimes Sonification of Winter Olympics Results from information aesthetics
Topeka, Kansas Is Now Google, Kansas from Google Blogoscoped by Roger Browne
WordPress Goes Real-Time With PubSubHubbub from Mashable! by Amy-Mae Elliott
Curiosity from Dilbert.com Blog
Huge Garbage Patch Found in Atlantic Too from National Geographic News
How the earthquake in Chile could change Earth’s axis from Scientific American
Marketing in 2010
One of the best overhauls of the current Marketing era, and how it’s changing even more in 2010 is available from Conversation Agent.
I particularly like the statement from Jason Baer at Convince and Convert:
The real-time Web makes everything marketing’s responsibility [... putting] marketing at the center of day-to-day corporate existence in a way it has never been historically. Operational shortcomings, customer service snafus, financial mishaps, R&D blunders, CEO peccadilloes. It all has the potential to bubble up in the real-time Web, and therefore it all impacts marketing.
Thus, we’ll see marketing as the binding agent that brings disparate corporate departments together to create crossfunctional teams. The real-time Web forces collaboration, with marketing as the quarterback.
I absolutely agree.
Tell everyone you know about this document. You could start by sharing a link to this page with one of the social media options below. :) Or link directly to the PDF, or through Conversation Agent.
Keeping Busy
I’ve been super busy as of late, teaching at Santa Barbara Business College and Marketing for Impact Learning Systems. You can find me just about all the time at Impact’s Twitter nowadays.
I’m also about to move (again). This time to a beautiful place off Huasna, near Lopez Lake. Got to love country living. :)
Stargate SG-1 Predicted 2010 Would Be Like This… Didn’t They?
The Jetsons were a vision of the future. 1984 another vision of a year, when written, in the distant, yet foreseeable future. Here’s a glimpse of how the phenomenal 90’s sci-fi series Stargate SG-1 envisioned life in 2010. Ah, if only…
