For the next few days, until I launch the redesigned version of my blog, I won’t be posting. Please don’t send in the police to look for my body trapped under a pile of pizza boxes.
Susie has been asked to be the lead speaker at the first corporate blogging conference ever in Asia. It’s called “Corporate Blog Marketing Conference”—yeah, the name could use some work—and it’s taking place September 21st and 22nd.
Saw someone else famous last Thursday. This time: Julianna Margulies, TV star best known for playing Nurse Hathaway on E.R., and who recently appeared on Scrubs. She was walking around Yaletown.
Forgive the techno jargon, but I need a hand getting my new Web camera to work. I’ve got this cool Web camera, a Pan Tilt Zoom Dome Camera, model ACD-1500, sitting on my dining room table. And I’ve got this tiny, powerful video Web server, a BlueNet video server, model IVS-100. And they don’t speak to each other.
I was in the john, thinking thoughts and reading a detective novel, when I came across a long quote that triggered some musing about computers and revolutions.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
After over a decade of user testing, it is clear that the way we search the web is similar to the way we would search our home for valuables as it was burning to the ground. Frantically.
“We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value ... The shift necessitates a fundamental change in our prevailing theory of the firm… The current theory holds that the singular goal of the corporation should be shareholder value maximization. Instead, companies should place customers at the center of the firm and focus on delighting them, while earning an acceptable return for shareholders.”
You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)