Sam Harrelson's Comments

Jim Kukral - Web Business Consultant : Twitter Lists Resurrect The "A-List"?

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 14:38:15 +0000

Of course I know lists can/will be gamed. That's why I put "at the moment" and "that will change and evolve." More importantly, the only folks wringing their hands over this issue are people over-obsessed with vanity and perceived influence. As I said above, "Enjoy the feature for what it can be for you."

Jim Kukral - Web Business Consultant : Twitter Lists Resurrect The "A-List"?

Sun, 1 Nov 2009 13:39:00 +0000

You've been reading too much Chris Brogan. The follower count has always been a dubious way to gauge whether someone has influence or is worth following. We all know it's incredibly easy to manipulate those follower counts and 75% of the "followers" are either bots or folks who don't give attention anyway. Lists solves that problem in my book. Am I inclined to think that someone is more authoritative on a topic or in a community because they are on a number of different lists? Yes, because it's a more organic way (at the moment) of issuing something like pagerank or quality score. Of course that will change and evolve just as Twitter continues to change and evolve. Don't forget, following someone is an exclusionary act itself. So, having that number of followers and followings can be seen as trying to prop up the strawman of an A List if you go down that path. So, stop worrying and love the bomb. Enjoy the feature for what it can be for you.

FeedFront : FeedFront Magazine is Now Available in the Kindle Store

Thu, 14 May 2009 16:32:47 +0000

Awesome. Reading FeedFront on my Kindle now... looks great! Sam

GeekCast.fm : Jeremiah Owyang Dictates Rules for Affiliates on Twitter

Tue, 12 May 2009 18:31:46 +0000

All links are affiliate links. Some end up generating immediate monetary compensation for the referrer and some end up generating long term compensation via attention, gained reputation or other trust.

GeekCast.fm : Jeremiah Owyang Dictates Rules for Affiliates on Twitter

Tue, 12 May 2009 14:58:33 +0000

The Great Molander was right... affiliate marketing doesn't "scale." :)

Jim Kukral - Web Business Consultant : April Fools Day: Confusion Is A Marketers Enemy

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:14:14 +0000

One example... I'm using it now to type this (and you are using it to read this): GMail.� Launched April 1, 2004.�

Jim Kukral - Web Business Consultant : April Fools Day: Confusion Is A Marketers Enemy

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:44:47 +0000

Wrong.

Jangro.com: Affiliate Marketing, SEO, Web Development : North Carolina's version of the "Amazon Tax"

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:57:15 +0000

Woohoo! Go NC! Oh...wait. Dammit. Well, I'm precinct chairperson now but maybe I need to speed up that run for Governor thing.

Jim Kukral - Web Business Consultant : Affiliates, Customer Evangelists & Twitter

Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:12:46 +0000

It's about community and trust. If I ask for a good place to buy a uke, I'll trust your recommendation b/c I know you and I know that you are really passionate about that topic. If someone I don't know sends me a DM or an @ message with a suggestion and an affiliate link, I'm going to have to do my homework and see who they are and if they are really passionate about something or just trolling keywords on Summize. The question that needs to be asked isn't "if it's ok to use affiliate links on Twitter?" (of course it is), the question should be "WHEN is it ok to use affiliate links on Twitter?" Sam

GeekCast.fm : Affiliate Marketing Fanatics Episode 3: Twitter in a Tumblr with a splash of Gary Vaynerchuk

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:28:45 +0000

My game changer still pwns the Sony Reader. Get a Kindle, Mike. You do need to have a Kindle b/c the backlit iPhone/Touch kills your eyes over time unlike the Kindle (not backlit like a real book). You can ge those Google Books on the Kindle in a few clicks. And Twitter rules exist! Kurkal is wrong!!!111!! Great show, guys. Really enjoying these :) Sam

GeekCast.fm : Podcasting is Dead (to Me)

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:27:06 +0000

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GeekCast.fm : Podcasting is Dead (to Me)

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:09:14 +0000

I'm sure it's a fantastic PC, but its greatness doesn't bring back the podcasts. Swallow your PC pride and use the machine that works better for podcast recording!

GeekCast.fm : Podcasting is Dead (to Me)

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:41:13 +0000

Amazes me that you keep putting us through this agony when you have a perfectly good Macbook on your desk that works great with Skype and AudioHijackPro. Just sayin'

GeekCast.fm : Cast of Geeks 54: But Wait, There's More!

Fri, 6 Mar 2009 20:49:22 +0000

How about KindleLoversAnonymous? But seriously, how about Geek Marketers (I quit marketing, but I'll still participate since I'm still marketing)?

GeekCast.fm : GeekTo.Me 11: Your Browser Can Hurt You

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:41:52 +0000

When I record/mix the shows, I do name them with understandable terms such as "geektome11.mp3." This convoluted naming scheme comes from Hipcast, the vendor I use to host/serve the podcasts. I'll be slowly moving over all hosting to our own servers as soon as we get the server set up for that (and have the appropriate bandwidth since podcastin' ain't cheap to serve as you know!). Sam

GeekCast.fm : Tattoos, Gmail, and the Best Theme for WordPress

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:14:38 +0000

Oh, and here's her new blog: http://smarterware.org/ Great stuff if you're on the heavy tech/geek side.

GeekCast.fm : Tattoos, Gmail, and the Best Theme for WordPress

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 04:12:02 +0000

Good call, Joe. Just to add on to your comment (and I'm sure you know this since we listen to all the same shows!) about the excellent BetterGMail plugin, the author of that was also the head editor of Lifehacker since its creation. She has a ton of other "Better" plugins for things like Google Reader, Amazon, YouTube, etc... all are tremendous and worth a try if you use a site very often. Gina Trapani is definitely one of my geek heroes... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/605...

Jangro.com: Affiliate Marketing, SEO, Web Development : Affiliate Links In Twitter, Part 2

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:48:01 +0000

It has happened before (but in this case it was due to a guy who was self-admittedly going after the Twitter-ati who had Tracks set up to get replies in the good old days): http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/is_pano...

Jangro.com: Affiliate Marketing, SEO, Web Development : Affiliate Links In Twitter, Part 2

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:14:10 +0000

Just to add on to what's already been well said... a major problem is that even if you unfollow and block a person, their @ replies still show up on 3rd party apps like TweetDeck. So, I could block Jangro's hypothetical (please stay hypothetical) bot or Adam and they would still show up in TweetDeck. This goes beyond experimentation into something like flinging poo at the walls to see what sticks, not caring that it stinks up the room for the rest of us.

GeekCast.fm : The Day I Forgot to Hit Record for the Podcast

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:44:22 +0000

Somewhere, there was a roadie who has a basement tape of this recording since it was probably the best podcast ever made. Glad to see there were some good things to come out of this: http://jangro.com/dbtweets/ Let 1,000 DB's bloom from our failflower.