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Baby monitor principle?

Wolfgang explains this new kind of communication over at the Edelman Digital Authenticities blog.
I like the analogy and, being a father of a 9 months-old unterstand the concept all too well. But still, what he describes is - at least today - a wish at best. Granted, some companies have embraced the thing we call web 2.0, but the majority and the majority of the big companies have not. Very often they have put the stroller with the baby on the porch and are talking on the phone with somebody else - they are not in the position to listen to their customers and they don't want to.

Sure, the bloggers and tweople of today exchange their own experience with brands, but too few do listen. I will take a major incident or bankruptcy until companies realize that "markets are <indeed> conversations" and that listening is a must.

Rehearsal #4, Saturday 3pm, live

If you would want to watch my band rehearse live, tne in today at 3pm...

And yes, Ligx is a client.

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Check out The Whip live in Hamburg

You can also watch it live now and chat at ligx.de.
(Disclosure: Ligx is a client)

Lock-in with the user providing the handcuffs

Steve Gillmor has a way with words on a recent Newsgang:

It's not about one of the players locking everybody elso out. They can win it by locking everybody else in, with the user providing the handcuffs.

Let simmer, stir, do not reheat.


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Gaping void at twitter

Just a thought to consider for everybody out there with serious twitter-addiction: Deleting your account is an option. Hugh Macleod, author of the Gapingvoid blog and cartoons, just did. If you like, you can read why he did it.


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The ultimate iPod repair hack: dust off your broken 3Gs

So, you have an old iPod in the drawer which stopped working for some reason you cannot figure out? You get the folder symbol or nothing? You exchanged the battery but still it will not play your music dependently, just play silence after a couple of minutes or forwarding one track thumbs you through the whole album?

Here is the ultimate trick that will save you a trip to the Apple Store and 120 Euros:

1. Grab a utility to open the iPod (note: a nife worked for me, but don't blame me for finger cuts or damage to the iPod's case)
2. Unplug the iPod's hard drive
3. Blow the dust out of the insides and especially blow the hard drive's connectors clear
4. Reassemble
5. Live happily ever after and send a thank you

I didn't want to believe it, but it cured all the symptoms mentioned above that my 3G iPod suffered from. Hat tip to my friend the musician. Check out Monkeeman, the band he plays in if you like. I think he used the hack on a 4G iPod, so give it a try.


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Merlin about rain in november

I think it was the weekend before last when I saw some tweets by Merlin Mann. Quote of the week, definitely.



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Fattwittering/Fatblogging: Participate and get your excercise

Since I just read the chapter about Joseph Jaffe's fatblogging experience in his recent book Join the Conversation, I thought I would pimp the fattwittering movement once again.

All you have to do to be a part of it, is follow the fatblogging twitter-account and begin to post your weight in pounds e.g. once a week. The fatblogging account will publish your numbers and over time you will see your progress and others of the fatblogging community will see it as well – and encourage you to keep it up (Note: the script behind it comes from Allen Joyce).

I would like to see someone write a script that puts these numbers automatically in to a diagramm and host that diagramm on the fatblogging.com site (owner: J. Calacanis), maybe I will try to get this into one of the new, clever Google Doc prompt pages.

As you can see, I myself have been busy and thanks to the Nike+ integration can say that I am improving my speed and burning more calories. Speaking of Nike+, a rumor on AppleInsider promises a new, much deeper fitness programm, called "digital fitness companion". But then, you already knew that the iPod would be part of your fitness regimen soon, because your's truly told you so in January... AppleInsider's post comes just on the heels of a the announcement to bring iPods into gyms. Now if I just had an iPod Touch or iPhone...


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