The other day I found myself telling someone that a company I know of has “a product that demos well, but it doesn’t work well once you buy it.” We all know the type, right? At the extreme end are some of the gimmicky items you find sold on TV infomercials. Some of them actually…
My early web experiences were all UNIX-based. Back in the 1980’s, I started using the text-based Internet using UNIX boxes. When I got to college, I used it even more extensively. After I graduated, the World Wide Web came on the scene and I surfed the web from Windows computers, but I created web sites on UNIX machines. But for most of the past decade, I’ve been Windows-centric with my web servers. Until now.
Don’t drink the online advertising Kool Aid and dismiss more traditional media outlets. At the same time, don’t buy in to the Internet advertising doldrums and give up on new media opportunities. Try different things and evaluate how beneficial they are to the objectives you are trying to achieve.
I have been a devoted user of the Thesis framework for WordPress for some time now. I have purchased licenses to use their software for myself and my clients. In fact, this site is built on Thesis, as are most of the ones I have built over the past several years. I routinely recommend Thesis…
People frequently inquire as to my perspective on the use of computer automation to conduct content analysis and/or aggregation. This is certainly a topic I have given considerable consideration to in my role as founder of CustomScoop, a media intelligence company. When we started out in 2000, the primary demand we had from clients was…
I have automated voice mail transcription set up so that I get an email when someone leaves me a message. The idea is to save me from having to dial in and listen to a message, especially if I am otherwise occupied at the time. Being able to scan a message quickly to determine its…