Archive for October, 2008
October 28, 2008 at 10:02 pm
As long as I’m on a Pixar theme, there’s this: A guy named Larry and his wife were part of a small group who saw an early screening of the next Pixar film, Up. Larry shared his thoughts about the movie:
Both my wife and I welled up at a few scenes and there is a memorable montage that depicts a couple’s life together that is so poignant, even the toughest critic will be moved. There are still some very funny moments but this picture really stands on its own and is difficult to compare to its Pixar predecessors.
I already can’t wait for this movie. It’ll be out on May 29, 2009.
October 28, 2008 at 3:42 pm
According to the New York Times, the Disney/Pixar folks are planning to push Wall-E as a candidate for Best Picture at next year’s Academy Awards.
Sweet!
I made my position on this perfectly clear this summer: Wall-E deserves a shot at Best Picture, and if I had a vote, it would be my choice. It’s easily my favorite movie of the year, and I was able to sum up my feelings in a three-word movie review.
Hats off to Disney/Pixar, and here’s hoping it gets nominated and picks up the award, too!
October 26, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Since leaving my last company job in mid-September to work for myself, I’ve been contacted by search marketing companies on both coasts wanting to know if I’d consider relocating the family and coming to work for them. In one case, I had to think about it a bit; in another case, it was a quick, “thanks, very flattered, but not interested” reply.
The reason? Money. Not salary, but cost of living. It’s one of the main reasons we enjoy living here. Cari wrote a few months ago on her blog about surveys showing that Tri-Cities is the least expensive place to live in Washington … and, as I remember my time in 2006-07 when I lived half of each month over in Seattle, it’s true.
This past week, a similar survey came out reinforcing this idea: the cost of living in the Tri-Cities is about 36% lower than Seattle, and about 11% less than the national average.
Fact is, our dollar goes further here … and that’s why we’re not going anywhere anytime soon.
October 24, 2008 at 9:42 pm
So, my U2 book is now in stores in the UK and available on Amazon UK. Early reviews are superb. I’ve read stories about first-time authors who get addicted to viewing their book’s sales page on Amazon to see where it ranks on the sales charts. I always thought those people needed to get a life. And now I’m one of them! It’s incredibly addicting … and let’s leave it at that!
(In fact, hold on … gotta go check Amazon UK. Okay, #7,151 overall right now. It was 6,200-something earlier today, but 14,000-something yesterday. See? How embarrassing that I know all this!)
Anyhoo, on to the blog recap…
U2diary.com
West Richland Real Estate Blog
Pasco Real Estate Blog
Richland Real Estate Blog
Hyperlocal Blogger
Small Business Search Marketing
Hmmmm. Not as much blogging as I thought. See? I really do need to stop looking at those Amazon sales numbers. Sheesh. And the book isn’t even available on Amazon.com yet…..
October 20, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Absolutely brilliant. They’ve outdone themselves….
October 19, 2008 at 3:39 pm
We all know that a lot of people and companies are using social media for brand exposure, traffic, links, etc. Marketing is there, and always will be, but the smart companies and people do a great job of not being obvious about it. They work to fit in, to blend in and become part of the community.
And then there are morons like this:
This moron is going around leaving spammy comments on all kinds of stories — that’s how s/he has those 390 points. I think you get 3 points for a comment on Mixx, so that’s 130 spammy comments. Way to contribute to the community.
If there’s any silver lining to this, it comes from looking at this person’s friends and followers:
The silver lining? Look how easy it’ll be for the Mixx spam cops to quickly zap all kinds of lame accounts that have no business being active on the site. It’s 3:40 pm PT on Sunday as I post this. Let’s see how long it takes to get all this cleaned up. I’m betting it won’t be long at all…..
(This reminds me of my post earlier this year, How NOT to Market on Flickr. Spammers are just dumb….)
UPDATE:
It’s now 4:07 pm, 27 minutes later, and that account is gone. Nice job, Mixx crew. You rock.
October 18, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Plenty of my Flickr photos have been used on blogs and web sites, but I can say with certainty that this is the first time my son has appeared in one of those photos:
That photo appeared a few days ago on the HTNet blog. I’m guessing Sean will be happy to see himself on the web like this. 
Here are some other places I’ve recently found my photos in use:
October 17, 2008 at 11:18 pm
I think I can safely say that the big personal news for me this week was appearing in the Wall Street Journal. Yep. Both the online and print edition. That was pretty cool. They referred to me as “Mr McGee.” Most papers just use the last name and ignore the salutation.
Maybe one of these days I’ll get my own Wikipedia page. Then I’ll really feel validated. 
U2 - A Diary
Small Business Search Marketing
Hyperlocal Blogger
West Richland Real Estate Blog
Pasco Real Estate Blog
Kennewick Real Estate Blog
Richland Real Estate Blog
I sure got a lot of mileage out of the flu shot schedule, didn’t I?
October 13, 2008 at 5:00 pm
First this…
Then this…
Then this…
I think that’s terrific. You don’t even have to follow @APNews. (But you should, because they post a lot of headlines and you stay smarter by knowing what’s going in the world.)
October 12, 2008 at 10:23 pm
With digg on a mission to eliminate many top users, Mixx is seeing some serious gains in traffic and registered users. Generally speaking, that’s a Good Thing. As a fairly early adopter on Mixx, I’m glad to see new faces and new energy on the site. It feels like there’s some momentum when you spend time on Mixx these days.
But it also seems like the only thing people want to talk about these days on mixx is … digg. Here’s what the Popular page looked like a few minutes ago:
I think Tamar said it well last week:
There’s too much f—ing Digg commentary everywhere on Mixx. As community members (obviously not as Mixx representatives), your marketing message is too much “stop using Digg and go to Mixx instead.” … [There's] nothing that actually talks about Mixx’s strengths (besides community and besides the fact that it is not Digg — which you can tell is not a strong enough reason by itself to be a self-sustaining community).
I’ve made no secret that I love Mixx. But enough with the digg talk. Can we all move on now and figure out what we are and stop talking about what we’re not? Thx.
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