“I am doing some work for RidePop, a startup envisioned by a group gradudate students at UC Davis. They came to me interested in low cost solutions for online marketing and promotion — viral marketing in particular. As I approach the project, I’m beggining to realize that viral marketing is more than just a way to run a promotion, it‚Äôs a way to run an entire business…”

“What started as a a little rant at the end of a long day a few weeks ago has become a quest. For years I have been highly suspicious of quite a bit of the presentation related common wisdom that is so often given and received as fact in our field. It has bothered me that there is so little hard data in an area of communication that is so important. It’s also bothered me that what little data I was aware of was 20 years old. So we have launched a new category of VB called Presentation Facts.”

“…51 are now corporations and 49 are countries.”

“Blogs serve different people in different ways. The functional structure of a blog is quite flexible and can be applied in many ways; from sharing photos with friends and family to promoting your products and services. But some of the principles that lie behind good blogging are surprisingly similar to principles of good management.”

Pretty self-explanatory: “Helps End Unending Phone Conversations.”

“I normally agree with what Seth Godin has to say, but his rules of viral spread (which have spread virally, interestingly enough) seem provably wrong…”

“Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes. Use Writeboard to write solo or collaborate with others.”