Streight Site Systems

Transference of Readership to My Other Blogs

2005-04-24T13:53:00.000-07:00

inactive artifact, like the Cluetrain site While I will post something here at Streight Site Systems now and then, maybe, I encourage all my readers and feed subscribers to consider moving...

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Vile Comment Spammers: You're Dead

2005-04-12T04:49:00.000-07:00

for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal To comment on my blog posts, I ask that you email me your comments, at the address displayed on this blog. Comments on all my blogs (Vaspers...

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Blogs That Are Unique

2005-04-11T07:10:00.000-07:00

Have you ever heard the clueless whine, "How could a blog benefit my business? What would I do with a blog? Why do I need to consider having a blog? What would I blog about?" The following unusual...

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Writing and Technology: A Student Interview with Steven Streight

2005-03-26T11:13:00.000-08:00

"Three KLCC airport (Malaysia) robots" - photo manipulation by S. Streight, original photo of single robot, by Messy Christian. A senior student at Arizona State University, majoring in...

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Stop Putting Personal Details in Your Blog

2005-03-15T22:47:00.000-08:00

keep personal details out of your blog Extreme distress was caused by my post "You Are Not A Blog", in my Vaspers the Grate blog. In this post, I cautioned bloggers against putting personal...

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Spammy Subject Lines in Email

2005-03-11T19:32:00.000-08:00

***** If you send email to those who may not know who you are, you need to avoid putting certain words and phrases in your Subject: lines. Spam filters block email messages that have certain words...

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Serial Killer Detection via Mentally Correct Perception

2005-03-02T01:45:00.000-08:00

Behold and See. Here we go again. Another suspected serial killer is taken into custody, and the familiar chorus rings in our ears. About half of those who knew the BTK killer suspect say he...

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They Destroy, They Do Not Terrify

2005-02-24T00:37:00.000-08:00

***** LESSON IN MENTALLY CORRECT LANGUAGE USAGE Politics has nothing to do with it. Marketing uses words. Even in war and insurgency, words are used. But are the words used correctly? This is...

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Lightning Strikers Manifesto

2005-02-12T23:19:00.000-08:00

***** LiStriMani. Copyright 2005 by Steven Streight. Created in Paint Shop Pro 7. Against Guy Kawasaki's Marketing Mediocrity I just read a bizarre post on a blog, a post that spoke of the...

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Donald Trump and Mentally Correct Marketing

2005-02-11T10:15:00.000-08:00

***** "what the sea cucumber said to the soup" (Copyright 2005 Steven Streight. Created in Paint Shop Pro 7.) Donald Trump and Mentally Correct Marketing By now, everybody's buzzing about...

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Selling the "Pre-sold" Customer

2005-02-03T12:45:00.000-08:00

****** First, let me explain what led up to the uproar over the issue of allegedly "pre-sold" ecommerce web site visitors. The Law of Promo Photos In a certain internet-based forum of...

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Any Idiot Can Innovate

2005-02-01T11:31:00.000-08:00

***** What is innovation? First, consider the fact that the human mind, by intrinsic nature, hates excessive conformity and overbearing tradition. "Variety is the spice of life", they say. It's...

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Vanity Blogs of Random Personal Thoughts are Doomed

2005-01-22T23:27:00.000-08:00

***** Why do I predict that Vanity Blogs of Random Personal Thoughts are "doomed" and will one day soon no longer exist? Because: 1. These blogs are boring 2. These bloggers (blog authors)...

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Slogan Slogging for Enhanced Creativity

2005-01-18T23:37:00.000-08:00

***** It's time to share a little secret of mine with all my beloved fans. This is a little exercise in creativity, a way to train your mind to think outside the brainwashing box. It's a...

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Products That Market Themselves

2005-01-01T17:35:00.000-08:00

***** Here's anecdotal evidence to demonstrate how some products can market themselves. If you visit the K-Swiss tennis shoe web site at www.kswiss.com you'll discover, in their About...

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Test Your Instructions With Users

2004-12-09T09:32:00.000-08:00

I'm not in a good mood and there's a reason for it. I just spent over 5 hours mucking around with installing a popular software program, actually an upgrade/renewal of a subscription to a service,...

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Thinking Outside the Brainwashing Box

2004-11-30T19:40:00.000-08:00

Mentally Correct Marketing consists of Thinking Outside the Brainwashing Box. Here are some examples: * IMPEITY A church serves communion...with oyster crackers. You know, those little oval...

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Content Hypertext Spam

2004-11-19T01:48:00.000-08:00

***** IT HAPPENED AGAIN. Yes, precious fans, I've stumbled onto another horrible development on the web. This is so awful, I'm posting the exact same post on this site that I posted on Vaspers...

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Comment Spammers: Internet Pigs and How They Feed

2004-10-29T23:04:00.000-07:00

internet pigs and how they feed ***** NOTICE: This is an exact copy of today's Vaspers the Grate web usability blog post. This topic is so important to users, blog and web site...

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Mentally Correct Means Effective and Ethical

2004-10-22T19:13:00.000-07:00

***** I spend a great deal of time yesterday debating an issue. The debate occured on a web developer's email discussion list. "Pre-selection" of options on a form was the hot topic. As usual,...

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Is Your Marketing a Corpse Flower?

2004-10-16T02:03:00.000-07:00

Photo credit: Claire Ehrlinger, Quail Botanical Gardens. *** University of California, Davis *** from an article by John Pickrell in England for National Geographic...

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Derrida documentary film

2004-10-12T15:12:00.000-07:00

Rent it at Blockbuster or other film rental outlet. *** Yes, according to the description at the Blockbuster.com web site, in this film, Jacques Derrida does indeed "deconstruct...

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2004-10-12T01:05:00.000-07:00

goodbye JD

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Beheading Videos: Poor Usability

2004-10-08T23:35:00.000-07:00

Terrorist "marketing" strategy is off target. *** I think it's time someone stood up and proclaimed the Triumphant Truth: Beheading is not what it's cracked up to be. "Gruesome" is...

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Earthlink Scores Big: TV, Web, Core Values

2004-10-02T20:17:00.000-07:00

Earthlink Woman w/Orbiting Globular Object *** Here's a rare commodity: a corporation that scores big marketing and ethics points in three major areas-- * TV commercial * Web...

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