Sunday, December 31, 2006 - Posts

I need more storage so that I Can Celebrate my Digital Lifestyle

 I like so many others am busy planing a trip to CES where we will celebrate our digital lifestyle.

A few blogs have offered tips on how to approach the overwhelming spectacle that is the Consumer Electronics Show of shows. I’d suggest you get plenty of sleep this week and exercise so your cardiovascular system is in shape.

When you arrive at the airport grab the 108 North bus, you could be stuck for hours waiting for a taxi.

The most important thing of all is to have fun! Many companies will be there under pressure to sell and promote products, but most of us are there to learn new things, blog about them and party.

I plan to make videos at CES and post them on my blog. I've posted over forty hours of video this year and hope to record more in '07, so I’m going to need mega gigabytes of performance optimized storage.

At the recent Ready2Rock Roadshow I got a good look at Seagate’s new 750GB Hard Drive and tossed my business card into the Seagate contest bowl praying they would pluck it out, but it wasn't my night.

It’s not often in life that you get a second chance, the good people at Seagate along with PodTech are giving away a maximum capacity 750GB Hard Drive and I just want then to know it will have a happy home next to the new Media Center PC I'm building.

The 60GB drive on my laptop is over half full, my two Seagate 70GB SATA drives are maxed-out and my 240GB back-up drive has more jpg’s they you could ever imagine. A Seagate 750 gigabyte Hard Drive would be the exclamation point of my digital lifestyle!

posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 1:17 PM by paul with 1 Comments

Google's Blog

A year in Google blogging

As we are all counting down the hours and then the minutes and seconds of the year 2006 the giant Internet Company Google is marking a year of blogging. This is significant because the blog is the voice of the company; they don’t need to hire a two bit PR firm to tell them how to speak to the community because they know and understand their community.

The latest Edelman scandal could have been avoided if the Microsoft Windows Team had used the Windows Vista Team blog to engage with their community and learn who the influencers are.

I have been urging Intel to blog for much the same reason; to engage with their community and help people better understand Intel.

Intel now has an IT blog, but it hasn't found it's voice yet and isn't helping the community learn much about the company. Intel also tried a laptop giveaway to bloggers as a Core 2 Duo promotion, but they made the mistake of hiring Ogilvy PR who had no experence with community so nobody noticed their Blogger Challenge.
posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 11:29 AM by paul with 0 Comments

Google NYC

Can Google Come Out to Play?

The answer is NO; the NYC Googlers are never present at NYC Tech community events.

I’m active in several User Groups in NYC and we are very social and talkative, but I have yet to meet anyone there who says I work for Google, or I just got hired by Google.

I went to a Google Recruitment Event last year, but most of the Googlers I spoke with were the California variety and they were looking for people to move out there.

As a native New Yorker when I read stories that don’t have any context to this great city I have to speak-up - the area where Google NYC is located is the old warehouse district adjacent to what were the Docks of the Port of New York, the mighty container ships now call to Port Newark across the river in NJ.

posted Sunday, December 31, 2006 9:53 AM by paul with 0 Comments