Category: Geek Stuff

So I have still been running around like crazy. The sales kickoff was last week and I’m also trying to get everything together for an event in Toronto, and vacation before that up in Northern Michigan.

I’d love to say that I haven’t been able to write in the blog because I’ve been so busy working on the Marketing Over Coffee book…. but that would be a lie. Everything else is eating up the time, including the last of the stuff I had to do to get over my lost cellphone, and a recall on my car that said the wheel may fall off.

That said, I did finally get a new Nano to replace the one that went through the wash, and that fits perfectly with the latest pile of audio that I have in progress and out:

There’s talk this week on the Beancast about Newsroom Neutrality, Tivo and 50 Cent defending his brand.

There’s a new M Show, although I have not yet unveiled my plans to close the show down on episode 200.

Marketing Over Coffee will be out Thursday with a 40 minute interview with David Meerman Scott.

Podcamp Boston 3 was a blast and I still have a ton of photos to upload to Flickr…

Last Friday a group of Boston Professionals met to send Scott Monty off to Michigan for his new job with Ford. In the spirit of a classic roast, most of the jokes were at his expense or at Crayon’s (apologies in advance to the Crayonistas).

Please keep in mind this is explicit content, and not safe for work. Just to drive it home it opens with an F-bomb and a joke with no taste at all.

Here’s the audio program:

Intro: Scott Monty’s rotten Joke

01:18 John Wall lays downs the rules

02:04 The Roast begins

06:30 Len Edgerly steps up

12:08 Doug Haslam

17:15 Adam Zand

19:11 Todd Van Hoosear

24:36 Chris Brogan

27:50 Laura Fitton

34:10 The Guest of Honor – Scott Monty

Among the offended:

Susan Getgood (also in attendance), Christopher Penn, Crayon, Coca-Cola, Second Life – Linden Labs, ooVoo, Chip Griffin, Sarah Wurrey, Shel Holtz and Neville Hobson, Bryan Person, Maggie Fox, C.C. Chapman, Joseph Jaffe, Chris Abraham, Greg Verdino

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Get the file at: http://media.libsyn.com/media/themshow/RoastMonty.mp3

“It’s all over for you Mickey…”

I have not vanished off the face of the earth (although my cellphone did in New York City this weekend, but that’s a tale for another day).

Lots of interesting stuff over the past couple of days. I’m putting the final touches on the audio for the Scott Monty roast from last week, which was a fantastic time. I was then off to New York City to catch both Avenue Q on Broadway and Ricky Gervais at Madison Square Garden. Both were great.

I also got to finally check out B&H Photo after 3 unsuccessful tries, but couldn’t buy anything because I blew my extra cash replacing my lost phone.  Plenty more going on with Podcamp Boston coming up this weekend, if you are going please send me a line and we can catch up over a cool beverage in what is supposed to be a very humid weekend.

Here’s today’s Marketing Over Coffee:

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Ok, I’m back. We were at a wedding in North Carolina for the past couple of days, that’s where this charming young lady saw a flashbulb for the first time. The trip home was an Oddessy through hell, but I’m not going to get into that right now. I’m off for a couple of days for the fourth, and am going to try and make it down to the River Charles for the fireworks, which I haven’t seen in more than 5 years.

On the marketing front you can check out the latest Marketing Over Coffee:

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The M Show is back this week with some discussion about Grand Theft Auto being too violent and dangerous.

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And I was a guest on The Beancast this week talking about Cannes, social network ownership, direct mail, and other stuff:

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If you have an iPod, consider subscribing to this stuff direct through iTunes (ask me if you haven’t done it before).

This week’s Marketing Over Coffee is now available:

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And if you haven’t checked it out before, this week’s Media Artist Secrets is also very good:

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And don’t forget that you can subscribe to any cool audio programs that I find by adding the gigadial channel to your subscriptions.

The latest Marketing Over Coffee is up for your listening pleasure:

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I also found an interesting article on Harvard Economics. The author put forth some theories on why the major is so popular. As an Econ major this was my favorite point:

 “A fourth explanation is that economics is a practical and marketable degree. Many economics graduates land starting salaries in six figures. Economics is good training for business school, law school, or a career in public policy. With the growth of health economics as a field, even some pre-meds sensibly consider our department. The list of successful people with economics backgrounds spans many walks of life: Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Diane von Furstenberg, Warren Buffet, Donald Trump, Kofi Annan, Sandra Day O’Connor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Meg Whitman—even Gene Kelly, Mick Jagger, and Tiger Woods!”