"P.S. With this and the "pitch us via RSS/OPML" post, I should totally be paying you under the table for helping me convince clients to do stuff;) Or, you should start a spinoff blog called "Because Marshall Said So. . ." Hehehe.
There was also this from yesterday:
http://tinyurl.com/6mrb8z
Though to our credit this was one of the earlier corporate blogs we worked on:
http://tinyurl.com/6bgcxl" - Joshua Dilworth
"Michelle -- I could not agree more. Picking awesome clients is the #1 key for us, and at PN that is our only "secret sauce" -- it's easy to get excited, genuinely, about companies like Twine or SXSWi for example. The love spreads naturally, and authentically, from there." - Joshua Dilworth
"Louis, congrats dude, these numbers rock -- not to mention the two additions that matter most. A heck of a June, huh?! Well done, sir." - Joshua Dilworth
"Ken -- Thanks for the response. I know a number of the Insiders and you are in VERY good hands. Advisory boards and similar constructs can be sooo useful when they are just that. . .used -- and used well. It will be fun to see how it progresses, and of course I'd be very interested to hear about key learnings along the way. Kudos to you guys for being willing to experiment, my guess is that it will turn out quite well! Would love to hook up sometime -- hehe it is funny, like Brian and others I pretty much only work on startup accounts, but at the same time am always thinking about how we can take what we've learned with the Twines and Friendfeeds and SXSWs of the world and bubble up those best practices to some of the bigger tech brands that we represent within the agency. The Insiders is a brilliant way to, for lack of a better phrase, sneak some extra social media and Web expertise in the back door, and to draw from a diversity of minds and perspectives in a sort of..." - Joshua Dilworth
"Hey, I think that yours is plenty pretty! I love it when visualizations go viral, my favorite in recent memory is http://tinyurl.com/2y26am. The data mining blog (above) is a great resource for this kind of stuff. In general too I think that we at PN can do a MUCH better job of visualization, hehe. Nice work! I like it a lot, very interesting and will keep on file." - Joshua Dilworth
"Mark, lemme know how I can help on this front too -- and would love to have you a as guest in the near future on http://falkensmaze.net -- also happy to put you in touch with peeps from Twine, PeoplePad, Stealth-Company.com, SRI, Xerox, Cyc, Kurzweil, Singularity Inst., etc." - Joshua Dilworth
"Mark, honestly, I think there is a need for a lot more robust analysis/intelligence on the web generally. Re: the topics above it really wouldn't matter, nor would the medium, so long as the endeavor was just that -- creative, well thought-out, and independant of the news cycle (even if partially driven by it). Does that make sense? Personally the science/philosophy bent whets my whistle the most, stuff in the vein of the New Scientist and KK.org. . .including semantics, AI, robotics, even the Kurzweil stuff that you mention, life extension, etc. -- I think this is fertile ground and there are a lot of us that know and love these topics!" - Joshua Dilworth
