1.0 isn’t as bad as you think it is.
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on October 8th, 2007
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On Saturday night at 11pm, my second son, Alex, came into the world in a room full of screams, blood and fatigue. Once he was out, croaked his first salutation and I saw the colour slowly come back into my wife’s cheeks, it dawned on me on just how 1.0 the moment was.
When you’re experiencing something so shatteringly intense, your focus is so sharp that you can’t see, hear or feel beyond your immediate surroundings.
It’s like everything else that you’re a part of, and is a part of you, is momentarily detached from your consciousness, leaving your mind and heart against a canvass of total sensory deprivation. Nothing, and I mean nothing beyond your immediate surroundings can penetrate your awareness.
The emotions and feelings you do acknowledge become part of you and directly shape who you become.
1.0 is you, your life and nothing else. It’s fantastic. We should all get to try it.
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Blog diplomacy masters
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on February 1st, 2007
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Mr. Rollins leaves and my opposite number my friend from Dell gets into serious “tough love” spats.
If you want to see how diplomacy sometimes treads a very, very fine line, check out the restraint expressed here.
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Easier done than said
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on February 1st, 2007
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Now that I’ve managed to reinstall everything after McAfee took down my registry, it’s all systems go with the page rank remapping project.
It’s a pretty complex issue mapping out page rank over hundreds of links and regional sites but it’s certainly worth the challenge. The problem I think is more to do with the PowerPoint presentation I’m trying to prepare to explain all this. What’s the rule? Maximum 5 slides..? Yeah right.
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Page rank madness
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on January 31st, 2007
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We got page rank.
No not me, my client. They got a PR8 home page, and PR0 product pages.
Thank God people like Leslie Rohde exist, that make this all insanely easy to figure out. And no, that’s not an affiliate link.
We got problems with session IDs. I’m a bit thin on programming knowledge but have enough to figure out that if you’re a $11+bn company, you need page rank on your product page.
So it’s back to the drawing board for a really massive overhaul. Two weeks to get a presentation ready..
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A busy month
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on January 27th, 2007
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This has been an eventful month.
First Edelman woke everyone up with a carefully/badly planned media campaign for Vista and shortly afterwards word got out that my client’s operating systems were compromised by a badly-coded ActiveX application.
It was fascinating to watch. A single post was quickly picked up by The Inquirer and from there the story literally exploded. By the end of the day it was on the front page of Slashdot and The Washington Post.
I lined all the cases up over on Alexa, and the sum totals of average daily page views of these sites exceeded one billion (TWP accountd for more than half).
At that point it hit mainstream media and country managers started asking for official responses.
It was a tough test of our PR skills as my client has no official blog and therefore very little way of reacting. It was also 11pm.
However, we got a press release up (fortunately they had a patch ready) the following day and got it noticed on the sites doing the most chatting and let nature take its course.
And the problem died.
It reminded me of an event in Scoble and Israel’s Naked Conversations when a bug surfaced on the blogosphere (if I’m not mistaken) during the development stage of XP. Scoble picked it up, they repaired it and silenced it within 9 hours.
We weren’t that fast but then, like I said, my client doesn’t have a blog. Yet.
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Time flies but then a LOT happens…
Posted by Michael Walsh (Check me out!) on December 22nd, 2006
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You ever get the idea that time flies straight past you?
That more or less has been the outcome of these last few weeks. Christmas is right there and I almost didn’t see it coming.
Before I go any further, I’d like to publicly thank the tech guys at Dell. My Workstation was well and truly KO. No safe-mode Windows trickery or system restore could pull it out of its frozen-screen hole.
After poking around for a few days, desperately trying to back up what I could (everything as it turns out), I made the call.
Actuall I made three. Each one took me to the next stagewith a level of professionalism and calmness that really struck me. Not because it was Dell, because it was so beyond what I’m used to from anyone it really stuck out.
So what do you think my opinion of Dell the company, it products and support services is after that? Hats off to them I say.
Right, with that off my chest it’s all-systems-go for some first hand SEO stuff this Christmas. First off TheAcerGuy is getting its own site. As much from the need for more space than a blog as to expeiment some SEO theories.
Then, my client’s own site. I had to force SEO on her as she knows someone high up in Google who assured her that the only way to stay at the top was to pay, heavily.
Sorry but that really irked me. I understand the need for Google to support its profitable business model but did they really have to go so far as to just plain lie??
So the challenge is on. First to prove to myself that it isn’t true (I already know that), and secondly to prove to my “boss” that her leg had been pulled so hard it should have hurt.
The other thing I have to do is set up an outline for an important corporate blog. It’s happening at last. First things forst, Wordpress or Moveable Type?
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