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August 30, 2008

More on our own nariation

Yesterday I wrote how all of us, I believe, surround our life with meanings based on what narrative we wrap around our life events and activities; perhaps, a value judgement is made and we feel good or bad, as a result.
That process I described, of self nariation, reminds me of painting. How so?
As artists [...]

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August 29, 2008

Being Uncritically your own best friend

Thinking about how the events of our lives, my life, specifically, gets represented in the conscious mind.
For example, I haven’t painted much this summer, been occupied with other things, important, but, perhaps self absorbed, too.
Now, in my own mind I can play that story to myself in a few ways, and either feel bad (I [...]

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August 26, 2008

Thoughts about the Democratic Covention in Denver

Have a couple of thoughts about what’s happening in Denver and I am writing from my IPhone, so no links are herein.
1 – Barack wisely made a statement about pushing Iran harder; I think he realizes, as I have postulated, an October Surprise is possible and likely, with Israel feeling cornered to act, if the [...]

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August 25, 2008

SES Presentations on Social Media Analysis

Well, here’s the content of the panel on Social Media Analysis and Tracking that I moderated last week at SES.
Social Media Analysis Presentations from Search Engine Strategies San Jose
Or, if you just want the presentations (where’s the Beef?) just download the presentations.

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Updates on Webmetricsguru and coming down to earth after California

Feeling a little low on morale today, progress on webmetricsguru.com is going slowly and I am not really sure what I am seeing in terms of traffic.
New template is in place but needs some changes; meanwhile, sitemap issues have been addressed and a reconsideration request to Google has been put in to remedy Know More [...]

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August 23, 2008

South Park – the one in San Francisco, not the show plus Cento – the coffeehouse at the heart of Web 2.-

I was taking a tour of South Park yesterday, while visiting Buzzlogic.com offices and Quantcast – Friday was a very productive day for me, and then I had dinner with Gary and Grace Angel and their daughters – Gary dropped me off at the airport – which was really great.
Today, I’m just trying to recover [...]

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August 21, 2008

Lunch at the GooglePlex with Avanish Kaushik and more.

I had lunch at the GooglePlex today – see Lunch with Avinash Kaushik at the GooglePlex – 8/21/08
Had some thoughts about some of the points Avinash brought up as a response to some questions that I asked him – he mentioned that he seeks a wider audience beyond Web Analytics Conferences (which may already be [...]

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August 20, 2008

Social Media Analysis Session at SES San Jose

social-media-analysis-measurement-ideas-sponderI put together and moderated the Social Media Analysis and Tracking session at Search Engine Strategies San Jose today and it went very well.
In fact, here’s what a few bloggers had to say about it and we had roughly 250 people in the room – it wasn’t as packed as yesterdays session on SES’s [...]

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August 18, 2008

Intergrating online and offline (marketing research) data at XChange

Here at the Ritz attending a huddle on integrating online and offline data which is being lead by Rachel Scotto from SonyPictures. Rachel is on the Social Media Committee at the Wen Analytics Association that I’m Board Director for.
By the way, I have posted about the discussion this morning with industry research analytics over [...]

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August 17, 2008

One picture says it all – in San Francisco

But I did not leave my heart here, though I am here now for XChange.
Wrote a bit over at webmetricsguru.com and Artnewyorkcity.com
Maybe it is time to pay the bill (for lunch) get up and move around.. Head over to the Ritz for tonight’s XChange event.

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