{"id":13,"date":"2004-12-30T16:36:39","date_gmt":"2004-12-30T20:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=13"},"modified":"2004-12-30T16:36:39","modified_gmt":"2004-12-30T20:36:39","slug":"a-grab-bag-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2004\/12\/30\/a-grab-bag-of-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"A grab bag of stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be posting about lead ranking, metrics and CRM systems sometime within the next few days. Right now, though, I have a bunch of random links that need to &quot;escape.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>1. Tsunami. There are not enough words in the English (or any) language to describe the horror that must be South-East Asia right now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">Boing-Boing<\/a> is a good source for links to eyewitness blogs and other information about the tsunamis. Please donate to one of the many aid organizations; we gave to the American Red Cross using Amazon&#8217;s very simple one-click process, which at the moment is at the top of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/\">Amazon<\/a> home page.&nbsp; <span style=\"color: #cc0033;\">Update 12\/31: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogmaverick.com\/entry\/1234000260025530\">Great post<\/a> on Mark Cuban&#8217;s Blog Maverick suggesting that President Bush cut back on the costs of the upcoming inauguration in light of the tsunami tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>2. Searching the Web. I&#8217;ve started using a couple of new tools that I really like. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feedster.com\/\">Feedster<\/a> searches RSS feeds, so I can search blogs as well as the traditional news sources that I follow with Yahoo and Google alerts. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliyon.com\/\">Eliyon<\/a> is a search engine of business people.&nbsp; The data isn&#8217;t perfect, but I have used it to find a few people with whom I had lost touch. Don&#8217;t look for me though. I managed to delete the profile they had built for me while I was messing around with it and haven&#8217;t had time to update the information.<\/p>\n<p>3. Great article in The Register: <strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2004\/12\/24\/magic_quadrant\/\">Let&#8217;s play the Magic Quadrant game<\/a><\/u><\/strong>&nbsp; If your company has ever been in the wrong corner of a magic quadrant, you will truly appreciate The Register&#8217;s humour. If you don&#8217;t know what a magic quadrant is, don&#8217;t worry about it, and read the article anyway. It&#8217;s very funny. <\/p>\n<p>4. Item on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicradio.org\/columns\/futuretense\/2004\/12\/27.shtml#000903\">Future Tense<\/a> with Jon Gordon about an 8-minute film that forecasts the end of traditional media and the rise of participatory\/personalized media. Very thought provoking, and makes the important point that as we celebrate the growth of participatory media like weblogs, we shouldn&#8217;t sacrifice journalistic integrity nor the breadth, depth and objectivity of the reporting of broad-based media like The New York Times. It may not be perfect, but the NYT reports the news whether it likes it or not. Blogs include personal commentary and usually a point of view. We must avoid reducing our news diet to only reading material from those that agree with us. The Future Tense page links to both Gordon&#8217;s interview with the film-makers and the film itself. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for my random links. Happy New Year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ll be posting about lead ranking, metrics and CRM systems sometime within the next few days. Right now, though, I have a bunch of random links that need to &quot;escape.&quot; 1. Tsunami. There are not enough words in the English (or any) language to describe the horror that must be South-East Asia right now. 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