Hillary gone but here…
The greatest Kiwi ever died today – Sir Edmund Hillary… I once read this quote by him which seemed to capture what has made so many great Kiwis great.
“I like to think that I am a very ordinary New Zealander, not terribly bright perhaps but determined and practical in what I do” – at the 50th anniversary
Down this path he went and became so much more. NZ’s Prime Minister said it well: “In reality, he was a colossus. He was an heroic figure who not only knocked off Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity.”
We come from a little land down under that would be so much smaller if not for Hillary.
Links & Blinks | Jan 5
- Web video alters viewing patterns…
- I like this… makes Flickr interactive…
- Humbling… sad day…
- Nice little Dell Customer Service Story…
- Good read on competing in a commodity market
- Interesting study from Hill & Knowlton… Among the findings:
- Industry analysts ranked as the number one source of information and influence on the IT buyer in the US, UK and China;
- Reputation, combined with positive experience, are at least as important in making final purchase decisions as superior products and services, in the US, UK and Canada;
- Bloggers have more influence over IT buyers in China than they do over UK IT buyers;
- Overall, internal and external recommendations have greater influence over the c-suite than IT managers;
- Traditional print media is more influential than online media and blogs in the US, UK and Canada;
- Most major media tends to be regional in its influence versus global;
- While Gartner is the most credible analyst firm in the US, in the UK
- Forrester is viewed as credible as Gartner. In Canada, IDC is the most credible
Clever Communications Backfire…
Interesting Editorial from USA Today… I don’t know how many companies I’ve watched fall victim to this same temptation…
The long and short of it…
Huckabee did so by calling a press conference Monday to announce that, after reflecting on the negative nature of the campaign, he would refrain from running an ad attacking opponent Mitt Romney. Then he showed the ad to reporters, thereby guaranteeing its wide distribution
… Griffin came at it from the opposite direction. He released something — a NASA study of air safety — but only under pressure and in a form so scrambled and redacted as to be virtually unusable, on a day it was guaranteed to attract minimal attention.
Seems clever till everyone starts reporting on, well, how clever you think you are.
In other words, Huckabee released something by claiming he hadn’t. Griffin didn’t release something by claiming he had. In both cases, they accomplished little but the focusing of attention on their deceptions.
Links & Blinks | Jan 3
- Kara got “Truthiness” as she ruminates on the leap to online and blogging
- New Dell Notebooks … and more here…
- Great analysis of the coming Apple / Nokia War
- Perspectives on web measurement
- Get your twitter stats here
- Chris gets at the stupidity of the “WSJ goes free” calculations
- Facebook nukes Scoble…
