How to Change the World



How to Stay on Top of Election News: Politics.Alltop

If I do say so myself, here's a great way to stay on top of the election news. Over 250 news feeds updated ever hour. You might also enjoy our aggregation of Oped feeds. Click here to see Oped.alltop.

The Changing Consumer Experience

Over at the American Express Open Forum blog, I posted a report by Razorfish called “FEED: The Razorfish Consumer Experience Report.” The document examines the changes that Web 2.0 and social media are causing for companies. It's one of the best reports about this subject, and you can get it for free by clicking here.

How to Tell If Your CEO Is Clueless

Pontificating, theorizing, and terrorizing abounds these days in tech startups. Here is a simple test to help you figure out if the startup you work for is in trouble. All you have to do is listen to your CEO talk to people for a week and determine if she uses these lines.

  1. "Let me tell you why the Sequoia memo really doesn't apply to us."

  2. "Our team is totally engaged and believe in the company."

How to Seize the Day

Nothing warms my heart than an entrepreneur who seizes the day, and Kathryn Finney seized it in a world-class way.

Step 1: Republican National Committee buys the Sarah Palin family $150,000 worth of duds.

Every Kronomy Tells a Story, Don't It?

Check out this very interesting application of Kronomy technology to portray the lives of Barak Obama and John McCain. Check here for Obama, and here for McCain. Cool stuff no matter who you support.

The Mother and Father of Social Media Lists

I learned of the "mother of social media lists" and the "father of social media lists." Click here to see mom and here to see dad. These are the most comprehensive lists of examples of social media applications, videos, blogs, podcasts, widgets, crowdsourcing, bookmarking, microblogging, photosharing, wikis, mashups, brand monitoring ad nauseum. Check them out if you don't want to feel left out. (Thanks to Ray Schiel for showing me this list.)

Guy's Index of Absurdity: The Top Ten Ways to Tell If Things Are Really Bad

The experts are promulgating many esoteric ways to determine the financial condition of the economy. It's irrational to base one's mood on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). After all, (a) what does that have to do with the real world? And (b) it reflects the buying (and selling) decisions of the same investment bankers who got us into this mess.

26 Hours at Sea: The Longest Posting in the History of Blogging

I've been to many interesting places, but nothing compares to my twenty-four hour visit to the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the U.S. Navy. I hope that you enjoy these pictures and videos. I would be overjoyed if you spotted someone you know in one of them.