Ravings of a Madman

Random musings, rants and links. Of a madman.

Archive for May, 2007


Quote of the day

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007
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“Don’t let assholes rent space in your head.” From an article about internet trolls and how to minimize their effect. When we are confronted by a negative person or event we have a choice. We only have a limited supply of intellectual capital – brainpower and we are constantly faced with a choice of what [...]

Failure is success Part II

Thursday, May 10th, 2007
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Just read a great article in Fast Company about James Dyson…. sorry… SIR James Dyson.  He’s definately my new hero.  I’m sure you’ve heard of his company which makes the Dyson vacuum.  It is the best selling vacuum in the USA and he is a pretty rich guy in Britain (now). Takeaways His vacuum took [...]

The length isn’t important – the context and content is

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
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Synopsis: Context and Content (and not really length) matters. When reviewing content or advertising, length is now one of the least important factors. It used to be content was long and advertising was short and it had to be that way. Now we get soundbytes of content. Does this mean that advertising should be longer? [...]

Wow, that’s messed up

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
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So, a friend of mine posted about the Virginia Tech shooting recently. I suggest if you haven’t read it yet, to go take a gander. I wanted to leave a comment there, but after trying to write it twice I decided that it would come off more as a rant… perhaps a Raving if you [...]