Dan Sherman: Archive

May 19th

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Mar 13th

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Fear shortage, hope mongering and Barack Obama →

Today, Seth Godin made some very good points about fear mongering. In particular, I like his call that it should be regulated or even banned. Instead, he is in favor of hope mongering. Feeling inspired by this, I quickly checked to see if hopemongering.com was registered. Not only is it registered, but the domain forwards to BarackObama.com. The domain was registered privately, so I can’t...

Jan 5th

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Jan 2nd

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The 50th Law

Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, recently co-authored a book with rapper 50 Cent. I haven’t read it yet, but here’s a Slideshare presentation of the chapter headings and selected quotes.

Dec 2nd

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“I was in Nashville, Tennesee last year, after the show I went to a Waffle House,...”

– Bill Hicks

Nov 29th

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Nov 24th

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“A farmer had only one horse. One day, his horse ran away. All the neighbors...”

– I’ve seen this fable in a few places. I used to think that I had to react in kind to life’s ups and downs. But I find myself mellowing out a lot and taking everything in stride. Poke around this guy Derek Sivers’ site. He’s got a lot of good stuff. And apparently founded...

Oct 19th

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Jonathan Eakman demonsrates poor online reputation...

So apparently, this guy named Jonathan Eakman managed to break into Google’s Hot Trends (100 current hottest searches on Google) because one of his 180 “friends” on Facebook leaked something he psoted to his wall. What was it they shared with the public that made people so curious about him so quickly? He got kicked out of grad school before he even started. Start taking the...

Oct 18th

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May 21st

“As the first way out there was religion, which is implanted into every child by...”

– Albert Einstein

May 20th

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What the F**K is social media?

What The F**K is Social Media? View more presentations from Marta Kagan.

May 13th

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Seth Godin give such great talks.

May 12th

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May 7th

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Apr 17th

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A splendid example of credibility-building... →

Perry Marshall gives a great example of how to use direct mail to build credibility for your business. This piece was from a waterproofing company. Not only does it show the opportunity for companies, but also gives direct marketers a clever approach to get more business from their clients.

Apr 2nd

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Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, talks at TED about why we think it’s ok to cheat, sometimes. He makes the case that the people on Wall Street were more willing to lie, cheat and steal because what they were handling (stocks, derivatives, etc.) was just far enough removed from the reality that they were deailng in money that they didn’t feel the impact of their unethical...

Mar 29th

“The problem is, there’s eight trillion people walking around, saying they’re...”

– Gary Vaynerchuk’s Keynote at Affiliate Summit West 2009 Damn straight! It’s nauseating how many non-hackers there are who think they can fleece businesses for some quick cash just because they got some business cards printed up with “Social Media Consultant” on them....

Mar 29th

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“Human beings always act, feel and perform in accordance with what they imagine...”

– Maxwell Maltz, author of Psycho Cybernetics

Mar 24th

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Mar 12th

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Mar 12th

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Mar 11th

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Mar 8th

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“Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration.” He may have been exaggerating, but the idea is that solid work, steadily applied, gets you surprisingly far. The steady application of effort with a little bit more work, intelligently applied is what does it. That’s the trouble; drive, misapplied, doesn’t get you anywhere. Most people like to believe something is or is not...

Mar 7th

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Amazing talk by Mike Rowe, the host of Dirty Jobs, on the virtues of manual labor. I remember being told as a kid to get good grades or I’d “end up digging ditches for a living.” Not a great motivator. Later, in my early twenties, I spent a lot of time digging ditches as an apprentice Electrician. I was surprised by how rewarding that simple task was. Since then, I’ve...

Mar 6th

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Mar 5th

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Why I Love Reddit →

Mar 4th

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Platform21's Repair Manifesto →

As a start of to what hopefully becomes a reappraisal of repair, especially in Western countries, Platform21 has written a manifesto, describing some of the qualities we believe repair offers. We call upon designers and consumers to break the chain of our throwaway thinking. It is a way of thinking, a culture in itself almost, designed to cater to short term needs of both industry, politics and...

Mar 4th

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Skittles Tastes The Twitter Rainbow →

Skittles.com now displays an iFramed search.twitter.com search for skittles. The only other thing on the page is a small block in the upper-left-hand corner with a few links to other skittles.com pages.

Mar 3rd

It’s not that people push you off-course; you wouldn’t let that happen. What happens is that people nudge you off-center without you even realizing it. After a few miles you’re completely lost.

Mar 2nd

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Mar 2nd

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Greatest Waffle Recipe Ever →

Allegedly.

Mar 1st

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Netbooks Stir Up Computer Industry →

Mar 1st

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Facebook Shares Users Social Behavior →

“People who are members of online social networks are not so much ‘networking’ as they are ‘broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle,’” Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says. I wonder if they’re drawing their own conclusions from incomplete data. How much of the lack of interaction...

Feb 27th

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Feb 26th