PICS: The Elvis Quarter!

May 23, 2008

My fiance gave me an Elvis quarter last night from some ad she found in the newspaper. It’s a Tennessee quarter with Elvis’ face painted on the “heads” side right over George Washington’s face. I took two photos here so you could see Elvis’ head is painted right over George Washington’s head.

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CMO Club May '08: lead generation, social media, and redefining the role of marketing

May 22, 2008

My business, Spark Media Solutions, builds and manages editorial media networks for companies so that they can create their own voice (ideally thought leadership) within their industry. Launching a media network can be drawn out and to get recognized can take months to over a year. Spark Media Solutions jump starts that process by launching […]

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VIDEO: SFMusicTech 08: What does Dave McClure know about music?

May 9, 2008

I spoke to Dave McClure, investor, producer of Graphing Social Patterns, and blogger at Master of 500 Hats after moderating the panel Social Networking Platforms and Music at the SanFran MusicTech summit in San Francisco. He admittedly doesn’t know much about music, but he’s very tuned into social networking. After speaking to music tech geeks, […]

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VIDEO: SFMusicTech 08: 10 years later Rusty Hodge reminisces about his favorite memories from ZDTV

May 9, 2008

Rusty Hodge with Soma.FM was my coworker ten years ago when I worked at ZDTV. All of us have such fantastic memories working at that place that I asked Rusty to tell me some of his favorite memories. I know this has nothing to do with the SanFran MusicTech conference, but I thought it would […]

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VIDEO: SFMusicTech 08: Pete Cashmore of Mashable on improving process with his life, work, and his blog

May 9, 2008

After watching Tim Ferriss, author of “The 4-Hour Workweek” speak at the SanFran MusicTech conference, I asked Pete Cashmore of Mashable what he learned from the conference and the session. Ferriss moved many of us to think differently about how to manage our time, communicate and learn from others, and how to delegate ANY duty […]

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VIDEO: SFMusicTech 08: Tim Ferriss of "The 4-Hour Workweek" offers advice for approaching bloggers

May 9, 2008

Saw Tim Ferriss of “The 4-Hour Workweek” speak at the SanFran MusicTech summit about the need to break everything you do into a process that could be repeatable by someone else that’s not you. Any service (for work or personal life) can be delegated to someone else, often on the other side of the world. […]

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Social Networking Wars

May 5, 2008

My friend Sam Levin tipped me off to this animation and I must say it’s very funny. The creators really nailed the current state of the social networking space and how we view the top competitors (MySpace, Facebook, Friendster, Second Life, and the real world). Watch.

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VIDEO: KQED-15th Anniversary of the Web on "This Week in Northern California"

May 3, 2008

Last night I appeared on KQED’s This Week in Northern California talking about the birth of the Web. Fifteen years ago Tim Berners-Lee convinced his bosses at CERN to make his design of the Web open and free to everyone. It was a critical decision as we all realize now. Billions upon billions have been […]

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My podcast listening lineup

May 2, 2008

Today was yet another day where I found myself engaged in another discussion with a friend about what podcasts we each listen to. After the conversation we end up sending each other links to our favorite podcasts. I thought it would just be a lot easier if I published my entire list of podcasts and […]

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AUDIO: Web 2.0 Expo wrap up on Green 960

April 29, 2008

I returned last week to Green 960 to give a wrap up of last week’s Web 2.0 Expo. Host John Scott and I talk about the differences between Web 1.0, 2.0, and even 3.0, plus we discuss the worst product demonstration I’ve ever seen. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Download the broadcast. Make […]

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