If you agree with it – or the sentiments – worth a listen ?
If you disagree with it – or the sentiments- worth a listen ?
Either way …. be interested in your thoughts.
Ted – Is There A Theme
Moleeds – I have always liked. Rimes – found tonight.
Both very funny – but how similar are those acts ?
BOTH are very funny
Biased Reporting of BP Oil Disaster ?
Cards on the table. This post is not about the oil fiasco per se. It is not a defense of BP. It is a question about fair and balanced media coverage. About lynch mob mentality. About bias.
There is no doubt in my mind – or any body else’s for that matter – that the gulf disaster is – well – actually – there are no words – and not for me to add to the commentary here. Nuff said.
I am English. I live in America. BP is a multi-National. And ‘British Petroleum’ (as Mr. Obama keeps calling the company) hasn’t been their name for 12 years. I guess partly because the ‘British’ bit was past its ‘use by date’. (Side point – 39% of the BP business is actually US owned.)
Read the main stream press, listen to the mainstream media all you here is that ‘BP did this’ – ‘BP did that’ -’when will BP pay us’ – ‘What is BP going to do’ ….. all good questions.
BUT I am rather wondering about that ‘noise’.
Last time I looked BP, Transocean and Halliburton (see note 1 at bottom of page on the click through) were all in this together.
That is you have contractors, sub contractors – and the usual collection of outsourced messes that make up today’s world. We know they are all going to blame one another – we also know that the buck stops at BP. One of the reasons we know that is that right at the very beginning Tony Hayward declared ‘mea culpa’. And yes of course – they are. But where is everyone else?
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs for Design
Maslow is not a name that pops into my every day conversation. But he did yesterday – and when I saw this today – I though HELL – why not – a message from someone to post !!!
I still think his hierarchy of needs maintains its relevancy – what 60 or 70 years later !!
This is Maslow’s original …
Meanwhile- I really love this one that Smashing Magazine has developed :
Passed on – with thanks to : Smashing Magazine : Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for design
How great leaders inspire action
It is reasonably easy to say well – ‘duh’ – when you watch something like this. The hard bit is transforming it into action. Take a few minutes out of your day to watch – and see how it might work for you.
Passed on – with thanks to : Simon Sinek: How great leaders inspire action | Video on TED.com
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“The fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.”
Great post from friend, good egg and bastion of SVT – Ladies and Gentlemen – I bring you Mr John Caswell :
Zager & Evans – The Eve of Eruption. – Just Thinking!
And remember – the fact that no one understands you doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
Passed on – with thanks to : John Caswell
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Zuora Signs Over $1 Billion In Subscription Revenue In Q1
I am not sure that this headline is actually right – you have to read it carefully. Like back in the day Ad Agencies used to quote numbers for media placement – and kind of implied that was their revenue ….
I think they mean that 1 billion dollars of revenue passes through their systems in a quarter. Still – good number neverthless.
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Gruber on Nack on Apple’s Control Over Native iPhone OS Software
Daring Fireball: Regarding John Nack on Apple’s Control Over Native iPhone OS Software
That’s exactly what’s going on. Apple is testing whether a tightly controlled and managed app console platform will succeed or fail based on its own merits, as determined by customers. There are different levels of competition. Apple has made its choice about how it wants to compete, and there’s nothing Adobe can do about it – other than proving Apple wrong by shipping compelling excellent software for Android.
Passed on – with thanks to : Daring Fireball
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WRONG
While I one hundred percent agree with Guy Smiths’s analysis on Sandhill, in particular – when he raises this one …
Content is King, and Jobs wants the crown.
To control content, Jobs must own the means of distribution. Hence, pesky interlopers like Flash must be eliminated. Flash connects the content provider directly with the content consumer, cutting Apple out of the loop, which for someone who sold 10 billion songs is clearly unacceptable. Thus Apple acolytes are assaulting Adobe. You can have the cool new gizmo, but you can’t have Flash.
- absolutely.
More recently – this thought and thinking seems to have been removed from the media reporting – history has been ‘rewritten’ – and while I do think that there are a lot of other reasons that get recited that ‘explains’ the lack of flash … this one makes the most sense to me. (and not just because no one talks about it.)
All that said - I one hundred percent disagree with his predictions and to see this as ‘the demise’ of Apple is – IMHO – nuts. I quote :
The marketing issue at hand is never to deny your market. Apple will eventually suffer if they keep content from customers. After all, we own gizmos to achieve things, be it making phone calls, watching movies, playing games, or impressing the cute red head at the bar. Fail in this fundamental mission and the market will eventually turn to vendors that deliver. Flash is only one instance where Apple’s “our way or else” mentality may be its long-term undoing.
Erecting barriers never works in the long run. Walled gardens are more wall than garden, as everyone who escaped AOL will attest.
I guess he is covered- because he does actually say ‘if’ – but – and though I am a fan – I am actually a VERY slow adpoter. Steve is running a business. If what he is doing starts not to work – he will adjust course. But only then- not before. And actually – really – most people don’t care about open – they don’t. they don’t think. they just want it delivered – simply. that’s what steve does. And that’s what the reat of the tech world still are not thinking through.
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