I also propose BlahBlogs – for celf-centered, hear-myself-talk-blogs; and FauxBlogs, for fake marketing blogs. 😉
Link: Lockjaw’s Lair: Is It Time to Name Blogging Subgroups?.
LifeBlog – Blogs that serve as personal diaries, expressions of personal feelings, talk about kids, motherhood, pets and the like should be known as LifeBlogs.
I don’t mean, ‘Have you seen him on TV?’ or something. I mean, do you know him personally?
Here’s the thing. Through some weird browsing pathway, I read about Fred, a very popular cast member on Saturday Night Live. But, even with all the sites out there dedicated to him, I couldn’t figure out some specific details about him.
Y’see, the thing is, I once knew a kid named Freddie Armisen. Turns out that the famous Fred looks like the kid I knew and is the right age. I don’t think it’s a coincidence.
The Freddie I knew:
– Lived in Brasil in the early 70s.
– Lived in Copacabana near me.
– Was, like me at the time, really into the Beatles (SNL’s Fred is a musician!).
I’ll leave out some of the funnier and more embarrassing things we did as kids, but I remember some great time playing together. And the Beatles were a big part of my childhood because of Freddie.
Too bad I have no recollection of his folks, since, as a cultural hybrid like me, that would have been a give-away. But then again, 7 year-olds usually don’t pay attention to their friends’ parents (who?).
Alas, he left the country and I never heard of him again.
So, if you know more about SNL’s Fred than I do and he matches up with what I said, comment here (don’t post his email address, d’oh!) or let him know he should place a comment here. NBC makes it hard to actually get to the cast members (or at least, I wrote something and never got a response), that I think this post might be more effective.
Diane and Anina are at it again, seeing who can blog the most with their phones.
Link: LIFEBLOG.anina.net: BACK IN PARIS…remembering Hyeres.
so now all that is left to do is count up the posts, calculate the comments, and see who blogged who the most. it was a crazy duel with diane. she’s a very strong opponent. check out this great photo that she posted of me and the young men’s designer. this other one is great too…how does she get such good shots…my shots are not always the best. must be the eye and waiting for the opportune moment.
Here are some other links that Anina sent me. I hope she doesn’t mind me sharing them:
Robert Price is clever guy in the UK was so kind to post his experiences on adapting a blog server to work with Nokia Lifeblog.
Now, he’s written a nice little review of his experience with Lifeblog. the summary is: addictive (that word again!); mobile software wickedly cool; PC software great, but doesn’t play fair with regular computers (more work needed!).
Fair enough.
Now go read it in his own words.
I had been putting stickers of all sorts on my previous phone (a Nokia 7610). It was fun, since it became a challenge to find off-beat stickers – like the time I was at a dinner party and the wine glasses still had their stickers (why?), I had to surreptitiously remove it and place it on my phone. 😉
I recently changed to a Nokia 6630 (many reasons – Nokia Lifeblog, Flickr, a photo feedreader I’m playing with). So, starting with an Anina.net sticker, I continued the sticker fixation with my new phone. My daughter has placed other stickers on the back of my phone. Now it’s starting to feel like this phone is mine.
But one other cool thing I did was to fill in the ‘Nokia’ name on the back. If you notice, the name is engraved into the plastic. I took crayons of different colors and rubbed them into the engravings. Then I rubbed the excess crayon off and now it looks cool. You can pick out the crayon if you don’t like it. Also, if I were to do it again, I would cover the letters I don’t want colored with tape. I was just too lazy this time.
I wonder if I will get my hand slapped for messing with the logo. I wonder if they wouldn’t mind if I did it in all black or Nokia blue. 😉
Did I mention that Nokia Lifeblog will be on all the announced Nseries phones?
Cool!
That’s a lotta bananas!
I’ve been one of those hollering that content is not the end point and is not for passive consumption. Content is for starting a conversation! Michelle from Forrester infected me with the term – conversational content. Other call it ‘social currency’ or ‘object-centered sociality’.
The social networking services that really work are the ones that are built around objects.
Jee Kim’s really neat blog.
Link: lifeblog.
lifeblog
worth a thousand words…
And I take it Jesus Park was Korean?
My first contribution at BLOGthenticity.
Link: BLOGthenticity – Can corporation use blogs for marketing? My experiences..
Instead of getting academic about the use of blogs in marketing, I figure it would be good to just dive into it with the stuff I’m doing, as an example.
