Archive for December, 2006
Thursday, December 28th, 2006
Some interviews I’ve done lately
I’ve had a few conversations resulting in a few interviews that have appeared in the last couple of weeks. Here is a quick round up of the coverage.
Eric Jackson, who has a great blog on leadership, was one of the first people to ask me to answer some questions when he heard I had [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Entrepreneurs, Gifter.org, Interview by austin
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
When you wish upon a Z-List
Mack Collier at the Viral Garden blog started the Z-list meme, where he invited people to post links to some of their favorite blogs that could use some link love.
Someone was kind enough to add my blog Billions with Zero Knowledge to the list, which recently made it’s way to Seth Godin’s blog post where [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Gifter.org by austin
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Million Dollar First Prize goes to
Go make a wish today - it’s already paid for. We have 3,600 wishes sponsored.
The Prize for the 1st Sponsor of the Million Dollar Blog Post ….
Goes to my good friend Andy Nulman. He graciously donated $1,100 dollars to charity and sponsored 1,100 of your wishes.
If you know Andy or read his blog, [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Gifter.org by austin
Monday, December 18th, 2006
Project Ojibwe would like to sponsor 2500 of your wishes
We wanted to do something unique for the holidays, that reflects the spirit of giving and community.
So to support our own project, the Million Dollar Blog Post which is part of our Gifter.Org series of social experiments, we have made the following donations to charity. We gave each of our team members $500 to [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in General by austin
Monday, December 18th, 2006
A gift to the Internet community
[Photo attribution: I can’t seem to find the Flickr links I used to assemble this collage last year. I used tags, Charity, Children, Giving and found these. If your photo is here, please leave me a comment and I’ll update with links to you or remove if you wish.]
This is cross posted on the About [...]
5 Comments » - Posted in General by austin
Monday, December 18th, 2006
I’ve been very, very quiet - it’s quiet before the storm
I know it’s been almost a week since I’ve posted anything on my blog.
I hope for this not to be a regular thing, but it’s been one of those weeks. Fun, exciting, at times stressful but always enjoyable.
The reason I’ve been off the blog is due to a financing that we are in [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in General by austin
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Making sure my peanut butter’s thick & crunchy
I was reading Brad Garlinghouse’s Peanut Butter Manifesto about Yahoo’s strategy having been spread too thin across too many opportunities. Quoting the memo,
I’ve heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Blogging, Leadership, Startup Resources by austin
Friday, December 8th, 2006
High five back at ya,
So two of my buddies Andy Nulman and Mitch Joel have both gone and gotten themselves mixed up with a new social meme whereby bloggers post “5 things you don’t know about me”. Mitch’s explains the experiment and gives us his five things here, and Andy responds with his five interesting things here. [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in Blogging by austin
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Viral Manifesto - We’re more viral than ebola on a hot summer day!
When the author of my favorite manifesto, Hugh Macleod recently invited people to submit 500 word manifesto’s I was inspired to write this.
We’re more Viral than Ebola on a Hot Summer Day!
A well known venture capitalist recently asked me how viral our Internet community project will be. I wanted to scream.
Our service won’t [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in Grass Root Conversations by austin
Tuesday, December 5th, 2006
An abundance to talk about
Despite the long post about community production and crowdsourcing resulting from my lunch with Kempton, it was in fact a small part of a pretty wide ranging conversation.
Kempton even got me to open up a bit about some of the ideas we are playing with surrounding Project Ojibwe.
You can read Kempton’s write up of our [...]
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