All Things Cahill

Random Boat Show Thoughts

Mark Cahill — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:57:08 +0000

I should (hopefully…fingers crossed) have a vidcast from the floor of the boat show for you tomorrow. Depending on my ability to edit it down into something approximating a coherent effort. Which is a bit of a tall order, seeing as I shot the whole thing on my iPhone. The good stuff will be in the [...]

Derek Trucks – I’d Rather Be Blind, Crippled and Crazy

Mark Cahill — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:19:47 +0000

Another great video of Derek Trucks

iCoffin

Mark Cahill — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:58:49 +0000

I’ve got no words for this one. Brilliant…

Demand Media and the New Economy of the Journalist

Mark Cahill — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:51:04 +0000

Demand Media has been a constant topic of conversation among online journalists of late. It all began with this article in Wired entitled “The Answer Factory: Demand Media and the Fast, Disposable, and Profitable as Hell Media Model“. Plenty of other companies — About.com, Mahalo, Answers.com — have tried to corner the market in arcane online [...]

The Blogs as Aggregator

Mark Cahill — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:10:46 +0000

Over the past two years, we’ve seen the genie come out of the bag on blogging. In the good old days if you wanted our content, you came to our blog. Now, our content is being automatically posted in a bunch of spots, perhaps on Facebook, Google Buzz, Google Reader, and even the headline shows [...]

Mattel Adds SMDB Barbie

Mark Cahill — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:23:34 +0000

Mattel today announced they’ve add “Social Media Douche Bag” to the list of Barbie’s professions. The new Barbie, which comes complete with it’s own iPhone, iPad and Twitter account will hit store shelves soon. “This career just kind of happened.” notes Mattel product coordinator, Roberta Smith. “We had a ton of left over ‘Journalist Barbies’ and [...]

The Illusion of Privacy

Mark Cahill — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:10:06 +0000

The launch of Google Buzz this week has once again brought questions of privacy and social networking applications to the forefront. Just as many of us have questioned over the past few years the repeated failure of Facebook to respect our privacy. To my mind, this is a very simple thing: never post anything to any [...]

It’s Truck Day!

Mark Cahill — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:43:08 +0000

In honor of the Red Sox Truck Day, here is Truckin’, performed by the Grateful Dead, April 17, 1972 Koncertsal – Copenhagen, Denmark. Truck Day, for you non-baseball fans, is the day when they send the truck off to Florida from Fenway Park in Boston, loaded with all their gear, in preparation for the start of [...]

The Day Social Media Went Mainstream – Google Buzz

Mark Cahill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 20:39:34 +0000

Google decided that I was ready for Google Buzz this morning, and it magically appeared in my email console. If you haven’t heard of it, watch this video: On first take, when viewed inside of gmail, Google buzz seems to be a real yawn. Just another place where you need to update statuses to keep in [...]

Say What You Do For SEO Success

Mark Cahill — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:20:42 +0000

Jeff Bennett had a great post yesterday about a shop that had changed their name to take advantage of the customer’s common name for them I said it absolutely made sense and I fully agree. Indeed from my experiences @ NameMedia this is exactly the way it is. I learned first hand the power and impact of [...]