Happy New Year, my friends.
May 2008 bring you happiness, friendship, love, prosperity, and joy.
May it finally bring all of us peace.
2008 will bring many, many changes - I promise you, no matter how prepared we think we are, we won’t be. It’s just the nature of change. If we were always prepared, it wouldn’t be […]
You know that I’m not a fan of the TSA. The majority of things they do in no way, shape, or form, keep us safer in the slightest, and the fact that more planes haven’t crashed into more buildings is simply a question of timing, not of giving Grandma an anal-probe.
But… I have to give […]
Happy holidays, gang…
Your faithful scribe is heading to a client holiday party, then flying home. I’m sure I’ll blog next week, but for now, I’m off.
I’ll leave you with this, though: How to get some exercise at the airport.
May all your Lords be a’leaping!
-Peter
A spectacular time was had by all at the Gathering Of Useful Thinkers: San Francisco event, held last night at the Redwood Room in the Clift Hotel. By far, the most well-attended GOUT I’ve thrown to date.
Photos can be found here.
Want in on where and when the next one will be held? Let me know.
Blueprint Ventures did another great greeting this year, bringing back Gary Snoman. Thanks JF for the link.
What I loved most: The Israel conversation, and the cow in Sanjay’s office. Ha!
Got a nice plug this week on That Marketing Show, an Internet Podcast all about gardening and home protection.
I’m joking. It’s about Marketing. Duh.
I may or may not have called most publicists idiots. But I’ve done that on this blog, too. So no worries.
Listen here.
Thanks to KS for the info…
I suppose they’re "Grants," even though they’re not "money," per se. Either way, nice thing for them to do.
Subject: PR Grants for Not-for-Profits
CyberAlert, Inc. will again award annual PR Grants to not-for-profit organizations for 2008. In the past four years, CyberAlert has awarded PR grants worth a total of $225,000 […]
RIP Dan Fogelberg, 1951-2007.
A variety of musical influences shaped my tastes growing up - two musician parents certainly helped, it’s not every five-year-old who gets to see Angela Lansbury in Sweeney Todd from the 6th row… But my dad’s love of Jazz, my mom’s love of Broadway, and my rebellion to run out and buy […]
An oldie, but a goodie around this time of year. Indiana University’s Acapella Group, Straight, No Chaser, does a very funny rendition of "The 12 Days of Christmas.
Thanks to AL’s mom for forwarding it on.
One of the best ways of curing a moderately crappy day (or a moderately crappy few minutes) is to visit "Overheard in New York."
If you haven’t tried it, I can’t recommend it enough.
One of today’s submissions that made me laugh out loud:
Man #1: It seems my first wife put my name down on a job […]
“Can We Do That?! Outrageous
PR Stunts That Work— And Why
Your Company Needs Them”
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