I haven’t been around much lately and that isn’t only in reference to my site here. Last week I flew into Augusta, Georgia for an interview with the Holland Sentinel’s parent company - Morris Communications. I spent Monday and Tuesday talking to various people, sitting in various meetings, and just seeing what all they do.
That lasted until Tuesday afternoon and got back into Holland around midnight. The next day I ran a couple errands and took off for a 14 hour car ride to South Dakota with a couple guys. We went pheasant hunting for 5 days and had a blast - more on that later.
Hopefully, I’ll have some time this weekend to catch up with my site and possibly make a couple updates, along with minor design changes. It’s anyone’s guess if that really ends up happening though.
posted on November 26, 2003| 3:33 PM EST
Looks as though some interesting conversation has come about on an older post of mine entitled “Advertising Headaches”. J Carter Marketing doesn’t seem to be so excited about the bad press.
Update:
Doing a quick google search for J. Carter Marketing and you’ll find that this site shows up dead first. Wow!
Update 2:
Looks like I’m no longer ranked number 1 but for a while there it was pretty funny.
posted on November 11, 2003| 7:56 PM EST
In what seems to be a flood of excitment coming from various developers across the web - an article has just been released by Joe Maddalone explaining how to install various versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer on one machine.
With this information in place, there’s no need to set up separate disk partitions (or entire machines) to host old installations of IE ó or alternatively, sign up for BrowserCam which creates screen shots of your web page(s) in any browser, and on any operating system.
However, now comes the question of why this information wasn’t released earlier by anyone at Microsoft.
Matt discusses this further.
If you have a Windows box and plan to give this a try, let us know how everything went by leaving a comment on your findings. You can download the various stand alone browsers at skyzyx.com.
posted on November 7, 2003| 10:39 AM EST
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posted on November 5, 2003| 12:40 PM EST
So I’m sitting at Panera Bread and discussing design with my good friend Rob Walcott (also Photographer for hire) and we find out that there is a band called “the gray line”. Not really a problem but they also have a website that is rather close to the name of another band we know that has recently changed their name to “the grEy line”.
Everything related to likemindedmusic.com and thegreyline.com are currently propagating over the magical world wide web (with a little direction from me) and only now does the question come up - “What about these 2 bands?”
From the looks of it - Band A (the grAy line) has been around since April of 2000, where as Band B (the grEy line) has been around no more than a couple months before that same date.
The more important question arises however - “Who’s promoting who?”
With the amount of Americans that currently rely on Spell check (myself included) to help them effectively communicate and navigate the web - odds are pretty close to 50-50 percent that fans from both bands will find themselves confused or blindly following the wrong band and their website.
This may be avoided with some creative marketing but even with that - word of mount plays a huge role in the tip of the tongue society we live in today. Johnny tells Mark and Mark talks about it with a group of his buddies. Everyone catches wind of this exciting music and of course can check a website for more information - www.thegr*yline.com.
It’s going to be interesting to see if a fight breaks out between either band or possibly legal action on the matters of registered branding. Right now I’m just sitting in my chair and watching the world spin around me - of course with a slight focus on the new chain of events.
posted on November 3, 2003| 8:02 PM EST
