Very into the Very Short List

By leelefever on December 6, 2007 - 9:48am.

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• onething
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At the moment Google reader tells me that I have 490 unread items. Once again my feeds are mocking me.  The problem is that of the 490, I'll think 4.9 were really interesting. Such is the blog world I suppose. This kind of minor overload is one of the reasons I love the Very Short List. 

A Sickening Review of Viral Video Tactics

By leelefever on November 23, 2007 - 12:57am.

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• socialmedia
• techcrunch
• video
• viral
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This almost seems unreal - maybe it is.  Dan, a Stanford student,  has a chance to make a guest post on TechCrunch about his viral video company.  What does he do?  He proceeds to make it stunningly clear how misguided and irresponsible his "viral video" tactics are.  It reads like a manual for new media View With Comments

Twittering for 1 Year - A Retrospective

By leelefever on November 21, 2007 - 4:49pm.

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• friends
• travel
• twitter
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My most recent Tweet (a short update to the Twitter service) was this:

New Directions in Our Blogging

By leelefever on November 11, 2007 - 5:07pm.

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• thissite
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We’ve come to depend on our time off as a time to re-think, to re-consider, to re-formulate.  It happened last year when we looked for ways to make video a part of Common Craft and it happened again last week.  Among other things, our time in Mexico gave us a chance to talk about this blog.

For a few months now, I’ve not been happy with my blogging, aside from the videos.  I was at a blogging crossroads – a time when I struggled to define the blog’s focus.  Our business, our product and world moved so fast that I couldn’t build any momentum outside of posting new videos.  Often, this meant not blogging at all or only posting our videos.

Technorati's Top 500 and Other Milestones

By leelefever on August 31, 2007 - 9:26am.

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• statistic
• thissite
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First, let me say that I've been known to unsubscribe from blogs that become too self-congratulatory. It bugs me and I'm constantly aware of it here on Common Craft. That being said, this post may appear that way, as I'm about to share some rankings, numbers, etc. So please bear with me - we're both excited to share.

Mobile Blogging via Treo 650

By leelefever on November 17, 2005 - 9:34am.

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• gadgetry
• mobile
• review
• travel
• twinf
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I've been geeking out a lot on all the things we can do with gadgetry on the trip. You might remember that I first posted about a device (the i-Mate PDA2K) back in June that I thought would be good for mobile blogging.

I've been using a PalmOne Treo 650 for the last couple of months and I think it's going to be the close-to-perfect gadget for our needs on the trip.

Over at TwinF I posted a bit about all the capabilties I've been testing.

Jake Takes on American Airlines

By leelefever on September 22, 2005 - 6:36pm.

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• business
• disruption
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I love this kind of thing- the little guy does what he can to take on a big company. Jake is a loyal customer (platinum member) of American Airlines, but got dissed recently over a $50 mix-up that was their fault and got insulted at the same time.

So, he's written a letter to the company explaining the circumstances and counting (literally, by the second, on his site) how long it takes to get an reply/apology from the company. Will they reply? Does it matter that he's blogging it all? It'll be interesting to watch. Oh, and he's having a contest for anyone who wants to guess. GO Jake!

Mobile Blogging Device: I-Mate PDA2K

By leelefever on June 13, 2005 - 11:26am.

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• gadgetry
• mobile
• review
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I’ve gotten the mobile blogging bug lately. As you’ll see soon, I have plans for a new site that will have a blog that will be updated predominately by a mobile device. As part of this, I’m trying to find the best device for the job. Some of the major features I see as being necessary/nice to have for mobile blogging:

The Blogumentary Battle

By leelefever on June 6, 2005 - 5:51pm.

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• disruption
• video
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The other day, Nancy White asked me if I had ever heard about this documentary about blogs called 59 bloggers. I hadn't, but checked out the (Wordpress) web site, which was a blog, but with only one entry. One weird thing was that the blogroll still had the wordpress defaults. Something seemed weird.

Then, Duncan posts Don't mess with us nerds which tells the sordid tale of the "59 Bloggers" guy and his attempted bullying of Chuck Olsen, who has been working on a blogumentary (a term he coined) since 2002 and is a friend of the blog world.

Community Guy Snapcast on Kryptonite

By leelefever on May 5, 2005 - 8:09am.

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• community
• disruption
• podcast
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We we're actually "on" kryptonite, but we talked about it during the podcast. Jake McKee, Chris Carfi and me talked about the recent story about Kryptonite- bike locks that can be picked with a bic pen.

More than that, we focused on how the company handled the affair and Jake's recent email interview with the Kryptonite PR person. As always, it was a good time. Enjoy.