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		<title>Get out and Vote</title>
		<link>http://backseatmarketers.com/2008/11/04/get-out-and-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:02:49 +0000</pubDate>
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Picture via the WorldRenownedPhotographer
If you haven&#8217;t voted, go do it.  If you have, good for you.
If election polling is directionally correct, we&#8217;re going to see a whole group of people feel inspired in a way they never thought they could. Good. We can use a change in tone and our collective view on the [...]]]></description>
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<p>If you haven&#8217;t voted, go do it.  If you have, good for you.</p>
<p>If election polling is <a href="http://www.electoral-vote.com/" target="_blank">directionally correct</a>, we&#8217;re going to see a whole group of people feel inspired in a way they never thought they could. Good. We can use a change in tone and our collective view on the world. No one feels comfortable with a lame-duck president, or being in the middle of a recession. Let&#8217;s move forward and fix the messes.</p>
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		<title>Branding in a 2.0 + World</title>
		<link>http://backseatmarketers.com/2008/09/24/branding-in-a-20-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gary V. does a masterful job of laying out the new branding world:

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008/09/23/my-web-20-keynote-in-nyc/" target="_blank">Gary V.</a> does a masterful job of laying out the new branding world:</p>
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		<title>Forward Looking: Drinking from the Fire Hose</title>
		<link>http://backseatmarketers.com/2008/04/07/forward-looking-drinking-from-the-fire-hose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cory</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Umair is &#8220;communitied out&#8221;, no small task for a guy that lives and breathes this stuff.
I&#8217;ve been stewing for a bit on recent deficiencies in the current web information fire hose which just slams down so much information so fast that my trip to a meeting today meant I missed out on &#8220;the dialog&#8221;. Not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Umair is <a href="http://www.bubblegeneration.com/2008/04/communitied-out.cfm" target="_blank">&#8220;communitied out&#8221;</a>, no small task for a guy that lives and breathes this stuff.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been stewing for a bit on recent deficiencies in the current web information fire hose which just slams down so much information so fast that my trip to a meeting today meant I missed out on <a href="http://www.techmeme.com/" target="_blank">&#8220;the dialog&#8221;</a>. Not real sure I really needed to be tapped into it for any reason other than my inherent need for information (heard that on a <a href="http://twit.tv/" target="_blank">TWIT</a> podcast this morning).</p>
<p>As a marketer, I&#8217;m feeling that consumer voice screaming in my head with problems that aren&#8217;t being solved. There&#8217;s Twitter, blogs, RSS and the social network of choice, but it isn&#8217;t mine, on my terms, with my voice and on my server with me sending permissions to other people to share and interact with my media on some grander <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=edgeconomy&amp;sourceid=navclient-ff&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS263US263" target="_blank">edgeconomy</a>.</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t get at a Twitter stream on a good UI (or Facebook for that matter), can&#8217;t keep up with the few hundred blogs I want to track and I&#8217;d actually like to add more. All these content creators, good thoughtful folks, don&#8217;t all use Facebook, they aren&#8217;t all close &#8220;friends&#8221; deserving of being that close to me anyway, but maybe they will be someday. I&#8217;m not interested in narrowing my focus on just the A listers as there are so many more thought leaders putting it out there. I also have to slam together my business life with my personal one while maintaining my &#8220;voice&#8221;.</p>
<p>To top it off, it is 9 PM on Monday evening and Twitter is down. <img src='http://backseatmarketers.com/wordpress-BSM/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>This is where the next web product development should begin.</p>
<p><em>Update: <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/04/07/google-jumps-head-first-into-web-services-with-google-app-engine/" target="_blank">Google&#8217;s App Engine</a> is interesting, but not when it comes to the rest of us.</em></p>
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