Raising The Bar – Part 2
I don’t mean to pick on the telecommunications companies but they really make things hard to ignore. The day after the incident with Cingular, I received a letter in the mail from SBC saying "Your enrollment in the SBC EasyCharge program has been approved for the telephone number referenced above". Above my name it said […]
Raising The Bar
Cingular just sent an email with the bold title of "Raising the Bar". I wish. The email said "Your wireless bill is ready online. Account Number: ***-****7607. Phone Number: XXX-XXX-0000". The account number was not mine and the phone number obviously belonged to no one. But wait, it gets worse. My recent email from Vonage […]
The Long Tail
Chris Anderson from Wired talked passionately at Supernova about how the Internet makes it possible to exploit the "niche" portion of the demand for products, services, and content. His theory is that there is more total demand — revenue — from a large number of little known products that there is from a small number […]
Split Rock Geocache
The Split Rock Mini Cache had some problems as I previously mentioned. However, it was extremely well described on the geocache web page. As with many things, the way you describe it has a big impact on the attraction to it. One thing I have noticed about good caches is that they describe not only […]
Two Caches Out Of Three
As of today there are 181,216 active geocaches in 215 countries. In the last 7 days, there have been 138,512 new log entries written at geocaching.com by 24,318 participants in the global sport of geocaching. Two of those entries were from me — but it should have been three. The Split Rock Mini Cache included […]
