Category Archives: Culture

Four stages of a on-line service company

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Gerard McLean

I was reading and commenting on a post by Scoble in which he rails on Facebook for bumping Joel Comm due to him having too many friends, fans, etc. which probably just amounted to a whole bunch of traffic out … Continue reading →

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Annoying little kids at the New York Times

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Gerard McLean

Today, the New York Times is “the annoying kid at the magic show shouting, ‘I know how you did that trick!’” Why did you have to spoil the illusion? Did we really need to know this? Why couldn’t you just … Continue reading →

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Businesses that look small are huge, as long as they stick to the knitting

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Gerard McLean

  Television adds ten pounds. It also add a few hundred square feet to a restaurant if featured on the Food Network or the Travel Channel. Case in point.   Last weekend, we were in St. Louis for the NSCAA. … Continue reading →

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Design and beauty matter

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Gerard McLean

A couple days ago, I wrote that Seth Godin is a big fat idiot. I still stand by my opinions for the topic that he flung out there with reckless abandon and a lack of respect for the real work … Continue reading →

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Seth Godin is a big fat idiot

Posted on January 11, 2009 by Gerard McLean

Seth Godin wrote this blog post about how now is a good time for all these idle real estate brokers to start a newspaper. In his head, the process is easy; take the number of folks in your office, have them call X people a week, interview them and compile this newspaper of their stories and interesting stuff. As someone who has done this as a hyper-local project with a newspaper and been given the freedom to write anything without seeking permission or editorial review, here are the problems Seth just ain’t seeing. Continue reading →

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