"Thanks Peggy for visiting and also for the informative website. If you have any more great DIY projects or info relevant to the bid feel free to connect with me. Easiest method is via @andyangelos on twitter.
Andy" - Andy Angelos
"Thanks for stopping by Jennifer.
I don't think I accurately conveyed my message...Medium is an enticing service for certain customers (including myself) but the concept of following people online invokes fear in many. I am not sure if the bulk of American culture is ready for the openness promoted by Me.dium without a radical idealogical shift.
Hopefully, users slowly adopt services like Me.dium in small doses and eventually are prepared for complete immersion. In the mean time, I think the serendipity event provided facebook and myspace chat are more accessible to a larger population.
I will check out the search function and send over any opinions.
Andy" - Andy Angelos
"Interesting...So you can function "externally" while still working within a corporation. The potential roadblock is in companies not willing to change based on input from external sources. Seems ridiculous when reading, but some companies would rather use observatory knowledge to inform decisions instead of input from those actually involved with their product." - Andy Angelos
"September 13, 2008
What ruined Detroit : WesternFront America
Filed under: — Tags: day, Detroit Michigan, Detroit Free Press, document, drill, General Motors, Jack White, Kwame Kilpatrick, Nashville Tennessee, The Raconteurs, United States, Wall Street, White Stripes — Digtital Move's @ 6:36 am
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Excellent read and analysis !
What ruined Detroit : WesternFront America.
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"Ryan -
Thanks for the definition of an emerging theme in the marketing world. Constant iterations are crucial to the development of a concept. One question however:
Why is "liaison" included in the sustainable WOM relationship? Evangelists are more susceptible to distractions than actual employees who can represent a brand more authentically. I wonder if the true "sustainable WOM" experience removes influencers, evangelists, fanboys, etc and is replaced by direct communication between company and customer. Think of giant corporations as nothing more than a local mom & pop operating on a global scale through the web.
Adding multiple layers of communication might be proliferating the current disconnect. Thoughts?
Thanks again for the post -
Andy" - Andy Angelos
"Christy -
I will remind the staff to provide an RSS. If you are ambitious and cannot wait to read in Google or FeedDemon - you can create your own feed using an RSS scraper.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Andy Angelos
2016 Green Blogger" - Andy Angelos
A novel concept - help people who provide you with valuable information or education :) I am with Allen in wishing for a less self-centered web. - Andy Angelos
As a self-proclaimed information zealot, I live for data. However, I sometimes wonder if my computer habits will be temporarily curbed due to energy supplies. - Andy Angelos
Useful. I learn something new and 'meet' new people everyday! :) - Mona N.
Stupid: of course. I learned what you all thought about Hillary's speech tonight. - Robert Scoble
A mix, sometimes I learn, sometimes I stroke my immense ego. Sometimes the latter blocks the former. - Mo Kargas
Both. Social Media is just a medium, in the same way that blogging or RSS is a medium. It's how we communicate and engage to find new information and people. It's not the medium, it's the message. - Louis Gray
Mona: you WOULD say that. After all, we all met you here. And fell in love with your "Likes." Proves it's an ego boost. :-) - Robert Scoble
I don't think you're really going to see people who use it as an ego-boost admit that it's an ego boost. - Mark Trapp
Those who pooh-pooh "social media" today remind me of those who dissed the early Web in 1994. And believe me, I fought lots of non-believers at that time. "The Web is just a frivolous distraction," was the main point of those who did not see the tsunami coming. The Social Web is as big a wave. - John McCrea
Well I think it's what you make of it. It can be both useful and an ego-boost. Linkedin has been very useful for me too, in terms of getting work, without too much effort on my part either. - jjprojects
John, she doesn't pooh-pooh social media in the article, but the culture surrounding it. It's a demented social hierarchy that props up things that feed people's egos over really useful social media tools. - Mark Trapp
Mark. Sorry, my comment was not specifically directed at her, but rather at the provocative question in the title. - John McCrea
This reminded me of Alexander Van Elsa's post.. how do you monetize off of all that data: http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/... - but the fact of the matter is, businesses are just looking for whatever service will get them the most views. In the end, it's all about the traffic. The difference is social sites can later (hopefully) be targeted for core audiences of a product and/or service. - Tim Hoeck
Robert: I share things I like and am excited about and FriendFeed is one of the rare places I interact with those that have the same broad interests as me. I love the conversations and exchange of information. It has nothing to do with 'ego', Robert. If I wanted my ego boosted, I would be barhopping and clubbing. :) - Mona N.
ego boost for now, but I've got a plan to make it very valuable, and I can't be the only one. - Jason Carreira
Mona: I thought this WAS the adult equivilent of barhopping and clubbing! More fun, less rejection and no hangover! :-) - Robert Scoble
I tend to find it ego crushing, personally. - Brian Norwood
Brian: I just subscribed to you. How's your ego now? - Robert Scoble
Ego boost until the buzz-words vanish. First to drop should be the "social" precursor to media. - Andy Angelos
Robert: I'm female, single, and live in San Francisco, where - mind you - the ratio of males to females is almost unfair... Rejection almost never happens, if you fit in any of those categories ;) - Mona N.
Think of it like high school. Let's see who's successful in 10 years :) - Charlie Anzman
I'm aging, married, male, live near San Francisco, so you can see my different worldview. :-) - Robert Scoble
both. useful and ego-boost. bottomline: just like most things in life, it's how you intend to use it. - ~C4Chaos
@Robert I don't know about you, but there has been a number of times I wake up in the morning with a FF hangover. - Tim Hoeck
Hah, Charlie: I like that. Who's going to marry the Facebook cheerleader? - Mark Trapp
HA! Hence, the ego-boost factor. To each their own, but don't make judgments or assumptions about me, please ;) - Mona N.
If I was Mona's age again ... I'd WOULD be barhoppin' and clubbing (not dukin' it out with Robert :) - Charlie Anzman
Charlie, I am secure with myself and who I am. I haven't required an ego boost since I was in middle school. :) - Mona N.
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Agreed ethanol is stupid, using land to create fuel at the expense of food. Perhaps algae might be an alternative to that though - Mo Kargas
When there is starvation and hunger in the world, it is utterly moronic to use a food source as a fuel source. In the hierarchy of needs, eating comes before automobiles ANY day. - Lucretia Pruitt
Any alternative will prompt problems...Detrimental effects of algae include damaged oceanic ecosystem, increased waste after oil sequestration, production logistics. - Andy Angelos
DARPA should be working on that project, will see if any alternative fuel cars show up this year at the Urban Challenge. - Barbara Duck
Daniel Quinn would argue that the source issue is rampant human population growth- which sources from ever-expanding food supply - sedgewick
algae will grow in harsh environs...like Deserts....acres of unused land...won't damage the oceanic ecosystem...not sure about the Desert ecosystem, though. - Sean McGee
I mention algae because it will grow on already polluted watersystems, therefore gaining use from otherwise untenable areas. - Mo Kargas
The problem with algae in polluted waters is that it starves the area of the oxygen needed by the natural ecosystem to repair itself. If left alone, nature will always renew itself. If used for growing algae, we'll essentially create an aquatic desert. - Jason Huebel
There's a problem with everything. Ulltimately, we need to conserve and not just look for a quick fix. - Francine Hardaway
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Agreed Francine, though I think the most immediate step and perhaps quick fix itself is reducing consumption across the board - Mo Kargas
@Andy I agree with you. Every solution has it's own set of problems. Believing that there's a perfect solution is just foolish. It's just about choosing which set of problems we could live with. I doubt algae can be fully contained within a desert.Large changes anywhere and for anything will prompt consequences, always. - Chris Chua
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I just wish we'd do something - drill in Alaska, open up more Nuclear plants, whatever it takes, but something is better than nothing like we've had thus far. (note, I voted for him, unfortunately) George Bush has had a tremendous opportunity to get a deal for oil from Iraq - why haven't we seen anything there? *something* needs to be done, I don't care what. - Jesse Stay
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I actually agree, which is why I find it weird that we have a government mandate. - David Cohn
Eric - Doesn't all algae consume CO^2? - Andy Angelos
I agree with mokargas. I wish more of the debate was how we can use less energy regardless of it source. No matter what we're pumping into our Hummers, that energy may have been put to better use elsewhere, ethanol being one of the more egregious examples - Brian Pharris
@andy I left out the word emissions - like from smoke stacks - I'm having a hard time typing tonight :) - Eric Schlissel
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Not necessarily, Robert. It's not a straight zero sum game. There are certainly sources for organic material that could be used for cellulosic ethanol production without detracting from food production. But that conversation's over here http://friendfeed.com/e/7bad00... - Ken Sheppardson
I'll restate what many here have said, ethanol is a pretty good idea, just not from corn. There are other, safer ways around it. But, better yet is have other renewable energy sources like the wind and solar. - Danilo da Silva
First generation - especially corn based - ethanol is stupid just like the first generation of most new technologies are impractical. Ethanol has a future, probably involving a lot of genetic modifications in both the plant and the algae/fungus/nanobots/whatever to convert it to energy. Also, the hippies aren't wrong, hemp is much more efficient than other plants to create energy. This should be a different debate from the one around drugs. - Nicholas Molnar
what can we do about it except saying digidave ethanol is a stupid idea - deter3
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There's a few startups are working towards alternative energy led byShai Agassi (SAP), Elon Musk (co-founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors), and Vinod Khosla (co-founder of Sun Microsystems and venture capitalist). Source: http://is.gd/SCX - imabonehead
Ethanol's OK, it's corn which is the problem. Long term, algae for E85/E95 is very promising. - James
