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Re: Hedge Fund Resume Writing Tips

thePuck — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:46:59 -0000

Glad you liked it, Michael!

Re: Someone isn't happy about Obama making nice with Hillary

thePuck — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:36:50 -0000

Then I guess that's what's wrong with politics...when lies, manipulation, and fearmongering are "just politics", we are on a poor road. We should demand a higher ethics from our leaders than ourselves because of the power they wield, not a lesser one. I wouldn't hire someone I knew was a liar and manipulator who will drop any pretense of ethics when it suits their agenda to sweep my floor, much less help govern a nation. Why are our ethical demands of our leaders less than those of average people?

Re: Twitter is the new weblog | Broadcasting Brain

thePuck — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 09:03:09 -0000

Oh, of course, and I do get involved in the community, I am a chatter, not just a microblogger. I use it for both. But I understand the people who just use it like a blog, without the chatting and back-and-forth. I'm just not one of them.

Re: You are not a personal brand – you are a character | Broadcasting Brain

thePuck — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:58:17 -0000

It has been my name since I was 18...and I am a huge nerd. :p

Re: You are not a personal brand – you are a character | Broadcasting Brain

thePuck — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:46:48 -0000

Yup, he was a member of Alpha Flight, Canada's answer to the X-Men. I prefer the version from Gargoyles, voiced by Brent Spiner. The Puck was also a character in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. I have some great namesakes :p

Re: Do you think blogging is dying? | Broadcasting Brain

thePuck — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:08:49 -0000

Well, yeah, I mean how can individual bloggers create content at the rate HuffPo or Techcrunch do? Other than Chris Pirillo, of course, who could make a new internet just with what he produces. And the ads and affiliates are getting out of hand, IMO. I took ads of off all my sites except for the Social Media Philosophy Project, because that needs to somehow pay for itself. I am also not accepting approaches from advertisers, because it just got spammy.

But I think individuals are able to build a different kind of following as well...people read HuffPo, but A-listers like Scoble or Darren have influence in a way that the big newspaper-style blogs don't. At least IMO they do. HuffPo I may or may not agree with or be interested in depending on the writer, but I am almost always interested in what Graywolf has to say.

Re: Zemanta

thePuck — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:02:50 -0000

I have been using Zemanta at the Social Media Philosophy Project for awhile. Timelady and I, who primarily run the site, both like it a great deal. We replaced Tagaroo with it, which while it gets more pics, does not really do anything else as well. I also hung out with the community manager while I was at Wordcamp, and he was very helpful. Overall, it seems like a definite winner in the long term. I think the main competition, OpenCalais (Tagaroo) is too all over the place to provide any one thing well enough. (just my opinion as of right now, OpenCalais folks, no offense).