Poor San antonio. always the bridesmaid, never the bride. It's tough being the 4th largest city in Texas.
So blake burris, Erica O'Grady and Kelsey Ruger have started a new group at Yahoo Groups called the "Golden Triangle Geeks." as blake explained it:
"Erica O'Grady and I came up with this group idea as a way to keep tabs with what geek events are going on in the big Texas cities."
I noticed that the triangle includes Dallas (assuming Fort Worth is included in this area), Houston and austin. So my question is…why not San antonio? There are certainly plenty of tech, gaming and social media activities happening in SaTX and it deserves to be included in any conversation about Texas technology and online communities.
I humbly request that this Texas Technology Star Chamber include San antonio in the "Golden Triangle Geeks." It's easy to do…see graphic above. Of course, I will accept the "Golden Polygon Geeks" if there are issues with the Texas Hill County being inside the triangle…
Posted: Nov 6th
Poor San antonio. always the bridesmaid, never the bride. It’s tough being the 4th largest city in Texas.
So blake burris, Erica O’Grady and Kelsey Ruger have started a new group at Yahoo Groups called the "Golden Triangle Geeks." as blake explained it:
"Erica O’Grady and I came up with this group idea as a way to keep tabs with what geek events are going on in the big Texas cities."
I noticed that the triangle includes Dallas (assuming Fort Worth is included in this area), Houston and austin. So my question is…why not San antonio? There are certainly plenty of tech, gaming and social media activities happening in SaTX and it deserves to be included in any conversation about Texas technology and online communities.
I humbly request that this Texas Technology Star Chamber include San antonio in the "Golden Triangle Geeks." It’s easy to do…see graphic above. Of course, I will accept the "Golden Polygon Geeks" if there are issues with the Texas Hill County being inside the triangle…
Posted: Nov 6th
This week my oldest child came home with the yearly school fund raising packet. You know the little catalogs with all kinds of things you can buy, over priced candles and coffee mugs with cat pictures on them. The catalogs are pretty much the same every year.
One huge difference this year though is online purchase capabilities. That’s right, far away family and friends are no longer safe from the guilt and pressure of children trying to sell and win prizes.
This also makes the selling process much easier on the parents. No more stalking co-workers when it’s time to collect money for the promised purchases. No more having to ask people in person to buy stuff from my child, just a simple short email with no pressure involved. You can spam your entire email address book in one quick swoop. The internet once again brings people closer together and also allows us to annoy masses all at one time.
Oh and in case you can’t live without a cat mug here is the school fundraiser link.
Participant code: P114285
Posted: Sep 27th
This week my oldest child came home with the yearly school fund raising packet. You know the little catalogs with all kinds of things you can buy, over priced candles and coffee mugs with cat pictures on them. The catalogs are pretty much the same every year.
One huge difference this year though is online purchase capabilities. That’s right, far away family and friends are no longer safe from the guilt and pressure of children trying to sell and win prizes.
This also makes the selling process much easier on the parents. No more stalking co-workers when it’s time to collect money for the promised purchases. No more having to ask people in person to buy stuff from my child, just a simple short email with no pressure involved. You can spam your entire email address book in one quick swoop. The internet once again brings people closer together and also allows us to annoy masses all at one time.
Oh and in case you can’t live without a cat mug here is the school fundraiser link.
Participant code: P114285
Posted: Sep 27th
From Chris Heuer @ 11:08pm on Sept. 11, 2007 at Idea Engine: The story of how and why we have come to form The Conversation Group is an epic – a story that is worthy of thousands of words, which I am going to share with you over the weeks ahead. There is the socioeconomic environment; the fertile cultural ground for our perspective; the advent of social media (aka participatory media, aka conversational media); the deep need for this sort of transformation in marketing communications; the disruptive technologies such as Tivo and RSS; and the changing nature of our relationships with each other as individuals, as colleagues and as community participants.
Read the beginning of this story at Chris Heuer's idea Engine.
Posted: Sep 12th
From Chris Heuer @ 11:08pm on Sept. 11, 2007 at Idea Engine: The story of how and why we have come to form The Conversation Group is an epic – a story that is worthy of thousands of words, which I am going to share with you over the weeks ahead. There is the socioeconomic environment; the fertile cultural ground for our perspective; the advent of social media (aka participatory media, aka conversational media); the deep need for this sort of transformation in marketing communications; the disruptive technologies such as Tivo and RSS; and the changing nature of our relationships with each other as individuals, as colleagues and as community participants.
Read the beginning of this story at Chris Heuer’s idea Engine.
Posted: Sep 12th
Sometimes the trials of undergoing a rebranding can be pretty funny.
and if you can’t laugh, what can you do?
We got a nice little message from counsel for the fine folks at Tribal
Fusion, saying they thought we were infringing on their logo. You
decide.
I don't know. Their logo doesn’t seem much different from that of wetsuit, skimboard and board shorts manufacturer body Glove.
and pretty similar to the logos of about ten million palm readers the world over.
and haven't children since before the Flood been making handprints
in plaster for their parents? ah, well – I guess that's different.
but since Tribal Fusion pretty much operates in the same arenas as
the agency, and since Tribal was here first, and since we don’t have
the kind of big dollars that Tribal has floating around in reserve for
the purposes of suing competitors, we thought we’d go ahead and cease
and desist and
come up with a new logo for ourselves. So here it is.
Hope you like it. I can give you the whole reasoning behind it, but you can find in it what you want. Just please don’t find someone else’s logo in it.
Posted: Jun 25th
Sometimes the trials of undergoing a rebranding can be pretty funny.
and if you can’t laugh, what can you do?
We got a nice little message from counsel for the fine folks at Tribal
Fusion, saying they thought we were infringing on their logo. You
decide.
I don’t know. Their logo doesn’t seem much different from that of wetsuit, skimboard and board shorts manufacturer body Glove.
and pretty similar to the logos of about ten million palm readers the world over.
and haven’t children since before the Flood been making handprints
in plaster for their parents? ah, well – I guess that’s different.
but since Tribal Fusion pretty much operates in the same arenas as
the agency, and since Tribal was here first, and since we don’t have
the kind of big dollars that Tribal has floating around in reserve for
the purposes of suing competitors, we thought we’d go ahead and cease
and desist and
come up with a new logo for ourselves. So here it is.
Hope you like it. I can give you the whole reasoning behind it, but you can find in it what you want. Just please don’t find someone else’s logo in it.
Posted: Jun 25th
When Wired magazine writer Fred Vogelstein set out to write a story
about a Silicon Valley blogger, Mike arrington, he figured he would do
what virtually every professional journalist does—interview key people,
either face to face or by telephone. It's the acid-tested methodology
of reporters everywhere. but in this case, simply by making the request
that newspaper and magazine scribes make thousands of times a day,
Vogelstein found himself in the middle of a controversy that's
challenging the utility, the accuracy and the very morality of the
real-time interview.
Here is what happened to Vogelstein when he sought his interviews.
First, blog entrepreneur Jason Calacanis told him he would not speak to
him, but answer questions only by e-mail, something Vogelstein wouldn't
agree to. Then, blogging pioneer Dave Winer told him he would not be
interviewed by phone. He suggested that Vogelstein e-mail questions
that he would then answer publicly on his blog, a solution for which
Vogelstein had even less enthusiasm.
Read the full story………
Posted: Jun 22nd
When Wired magazine writer Fred Vogelstein set out to write a story
about a Silicon Valley blogger, Mike arrington, he figured he would do
what virtually every professional journalist does—interview key people,
either face to face or by telephone. It’s the acid-tested methodology
of reporters everywhere. but in this case, simply by making the request
that newspaper and magazine scribes make thousands of times a day,
Vogelstein found himself in the middle of a controversy that’s
challenging the utility, the accuracy and the very morality of the
real-time interview.
Here is what happened to Vogelstein when he sought his interviews.
First, blog entrepreneur Jason Calacanis told him he would not speak to
him, but answer questions only by e-mail, something Vogelstein wouldn’t
agree to. Then, blogging pioneer Dave Winer told him he would not be
interviewed by phone. He suggested that Vogelstein e-mail questions
that he would then answer publicly on his blog, a solution for which
Vogelstein had even less enthusiasm.
Read the full story………
Posted: Jun 22nd
