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Re: The next big move – going to work for the Blue

adamclyde — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 21:39:48 -0000

Congratulations Jon. I hope this turns out to be everything you want it to be.

Re: Hilton HHonors Offers Elites Expedited 2015 Requalification

adamclyde — Fri, 08 Nov 2013 20:18:02 -0000

appreciate the gesture from Hilton, but after the crap they pulled earlier this year (devaluing our points), I think I'm still going to Hyatt in 2014. This from a HH Diamond member with ~1.8 million points. Anyone made the transition - does Hyatt have a status match program?

Re: It’s been 85 starts since Clayton Kershaw was knocked out of a game

adamclyde — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 12:46:27 -0000

Only a few years ago, I lamented to one of my brothers about how long it's been since we had a true likely HOFer to watch on the Dodgers. So it's great to see it playing out now. And I feel especially lucky to have been at one of his early Spring Training games... the one where Vin Scully declared his curve ball "public enemy No. 1."

Also, great to see that, by all accounts, Kershaw seems to be a genuinely nice guy on top of it all. What's not to love?

Re: Stick a Fork In It - Dave Lieberman - Ten Great Vietnamese Restaurants in Orange County

adamclyde — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:26:59 -0000

nothing beats the cha gio at vien dong.

Re: No charges against Loney following November arrest

adamclyde — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:33:18 -0000

about the only show I watch these days. Fantastic...

Re: Welcome to the new home of Dodger Thoughts

adamclyde — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:39:22 -0000

I made some shirts for work from customink.com. Came out great. Good quality tshirts... graphics worked really well. Totally happy...

Re: Welcome to the new home of Dodger Thoughts

adamclyde — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:06:17 -0000

Jon, great stuff. I know there's a NPUT, but I'm commenting on this thread as it's more relevant for the convo. This is my first comment SINCE you left Baseball Toaster. Used to comment quite regularly back then. The LA Times and ESPN platforms just kind of made me less interested in commenting. But... I still read every post. So I, for one, am happy you are back on your own, and plan to actually comment more. Congrats.

Re: 7-5 Hoops Player From Senegal Hones His Skills At Small School In The O.C.

adamclyde — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:11:16 -0000

OC = Orange County. "The OC" = idiotic TV show. No one from here calls it "The O.C."

Surfs up...

Re: Stick a Fork In It - Dave Lieberman - Taco Maria, Carlos Salgado's Upscale Mexican Truck, Launches

adamclyde — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:24:06 -0000

one of the best tacos I've ever had was pescado al pastor from a nice restaurant in Mexico City. Nicely charred, but pan seared, tender fish, with a "pastor"-like marinade/paste with onions, cilantro and pineapple. Hand patted blue corn tortillas also helped out a bit, but they were fantastic.

Re: Which Company Has the Most “Social” Employees? [INFOGRAPHIC]

adamclyde — Wed, 19 May 2010 12:30:01 -0000

Hmm... some VERY strange methodology or something. And before I begin, forgive the blatant bias - I'm from IBM, and I manage this stuff from our corporate office. So double biased.

But consider this single fact alone: IBM has the largest single corporate network of employees active on social networks anywhere, with more than 200,000 on LinkedIn. How do you justify that with the information above? I generally try and stay out of this kind of debate, but finally succumbed and wrote up a much longer response here on my personal blog, with a lot more detail: http://adamchristensen.com

Ultimately, how one ranks on this is completely irrelevant. But if someone is going to claim to have made a comprehensive report and rank brands accordingly, they better be thorough and accurate. This appears to be neither.

Re: Social Media Decoded

adamclyde — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:39:37 -0000

@mikemyatt. I don't think anyone is suggesting that you can't measure it. But I patently dismiss any argument that says what your measurement metrics you might employ at your company are necessarily relevant for what I'm doing at IBM. And what I'm doing in one area of IBM may or may not be relevant to what I'm doing in another.

The point we brought home during the sessions was that measurement has to be firmly rooted in the objective for which we are employing social media. For me, we are a B2B company and while, yes, we see opportunity for lead generation, our starting point for social media is NOT mere sales. It's about relationships, ideas, collaboration and expertise. And as such has different measurement criteria. Yes, it absolutely can be measured, but it may not be measured by quarterly lead gen or sales targets. Some companies might find that useful if they are taking a transactional approach. That's not what I'm in it for. So from a branding perspective, I have different measurement.

No one suggests you shouldn't try and find or measure value.

Re: Smarter finance.

adamclyde — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 08:05:12 -0000

I'm glad you noticed the Smarter Planet efforts from IBM. I'm involved in that work at IBM (I do a lot of the blogging work on the Smarter Planet blog you referenced above). I appreciate your comments and agree... we still have a ways to go to improve the 2-way dialogue. But we are getting there.

With regard to the specific issue on Smarter Financial Services... there's a lot of work going on that we are excited to talk about... we just need to get to that. We've been really focused on talking about the smarter cities, healthcare and energy/Smart Grid work. But there's a lot of great work going on to really understand how to work with the financial services industry to embed better intelligence throughout the system - to fundamentally change the way risk is understood and managed. This goes far beyond just IBM, obviously. But we hope we can play a role in improving the systems so we can avoid the kinds of massive, systemic turmoil we are seeing today. I'd love to hear more of your ideas on how we - as a society, not just IBM - can make progress on this front. Looking forward to more of a discussion on all of this. Feel free to check us out there on that blog, on twitter at @smarterplanet or anywhere else. Cheers - Adam

Re: Lost Pearblossom Highway

adamclyde — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:48:01 -0000

Excellent post...

Aside from the inherent cultural issue at play, which you outline, in Southern California, the biggest enemies to widespread commuter rail adoption are the dual problems of commercial sprawl and residential sprawl. No one I know actually works in downtown LA. So until there is a spider-web system of light rail, most people will continue as they do now because, as you suggest, there isn't any choice (driving to catch a train, then catching a bus, then walking or catching a taxi to the office isn't a choice for most people).

But until that spider system of light rail is built, I wonder how much of a change could be brought about by providing some significant incentives to businesses to put their offices in walking proximity to rail lines? Perhaps this system exists already, but it would seem to help counter the tendency to move farther and farther from the few centers of business that are currently served by rail.

That only solves for the commercial sprawl part of the equation - not the residential side, which is also a major problem. (ahh... the wonderful half century of suburban planning at work).

This also reminds me of the great prototypes at the MIT Media Lab on the Smart Cities work. I love the model they put forth. (look here: http://cities.media.mit.edu/ and click mobility and CityCar). Unfortunately, it doesn't look like they've got the full presentation up there that shows what a system like that would look like in suburbia, but it's really provocative. Frankly, it's probably further out than building rail in terms of likely adoption by municipal government, but it's really forward thinking.

Anyhow, great post laying out the current and historical issues...

Re: California Oil

adamclyde — Fri, 08 May 2009 10:01:51 -0000

Growing up in Southern California I was always curious about the oil fields we'd always pass in Huntington Beach. I always thought they were oddly out of place... seeing fields of small oil rigs just a block from some of the beautiful beaches in Huntington Beach. Since they predated me by many decades, they held a certain level of charm, I guess.

Over the past 15 years, they've been largely replaced by residential real estate as that market has, apparently, become much more valuable than oil production. I guess it's not surprising given the premium location, but were those fields still productive? Or did they lose production before they started to transition to real estate.

If they were still productive, and in light of depressed housing prices in California, I wonder at what oil-per-barrel-price the transition from oil production to real estate becomes a poorly made choice. As you've pointed out, oil won't stay at $50/barrel previously. If it rides at $200 again, and if there was still oil to be extracted there in Huntington beach, I wonder if they will lament that they got rid of the fields in the first place.

(though I have no idea who profited from the oil... the city? state?)

Re: louisgray.com: The LDS/Facebook Rumor Didn't Pass the Common Sense Test

adamclyde — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 02:14:32 -0000

Louis - wow. I mean wow. I hadn't heard that one yet. I'm glad you brought it to my attention - no doubt I'm going to get lots of questions at work tomorrow (BYU grad, etc. here). So this is a good heads up.

If folks are interested in understanding the family history designs of the Church, it's worth taking a look at familysearch.org. People will see the existing resources available to the public and see that the unstructured nature of random relationships in Facebook really isn't related to anything the Church is interested in.

That said, there could be some interesting value in more people using facebook or other social networks to connect with distant relatives who are also doing research on the same family lines. What if you had facebook "fan" pages for some prominent 19th century relative. It could be used as a place to coordinate and share research among distant relatives.

OK, now I'm just riffing on a tangent. Nice post. Thanks.

Re: Micro-blogging meetup in September? (Scripting News)

adamclyde — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:12:50 -0000

Great idea. If you decide to choose NYC I'd love it! Spread the love East, I say. (though, understand that the chances of it actually happening out here in the East would be slim... here's hoping).

regardless, great idea...