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Articles, Rants and Other Works
Bloggle.com
July 1, 2001
A medium has the capacity to not only change our thinking, but to change how we think… how we communicate, experience, and understand. And to tell the truth, we still don’t know what the implications of the Internet and the Web really are.
The Portal
Revolution
Inc. Magazine
May 15, 2001
Today's information portals have shifted customer expectations from a static, document-centric model to a dynamic model that is based not on documents, but components-bits-and bit-streams...
Your Customers Are Talking (expanded)
Cincinnati Business Courier
October, 2000
Evidently the editors of the Cincinnati Business Journal read Inc.
magazine. One, in particular, read the Inc. regional article of the same
name (below) and asked for an expanded version. In the future, I'll know
just how difficult in can be to expand an article that you've only just
slashed to its bones.
Submitted to TIVO.COM
October, 2000
Through the month of October, Tivo sponsored an essay contest... tell their panel why you needed a Tivo, and they'd give you one. This was my winning entry.
Inc. Magazine
September 15, 2000
Three hundred words. How difficult can it be to write 300 words? Plenty, if you've got about 500 words that you *really* want to express. The article outlines the effective use of Usenet, email, and web site log files to uncover what your customers are *really* looking for.
From the way-back bin...
Sometime in 1987
I cannot write unless I have a deadline. And so I have always found ways to create deadlines. In this case it was becoming a columnist for a college newspaper. I didn't need the credit... I just wanted a deadline. At the time I was heavily influenced by the writing of Douglas Adams. I'm still influenced by Adams... though it may not show quite so much today as it did then. And, medications are much more subtle these days.