July 2010
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High Anxiety
As a seasoned commuter in the Puget Sound Megalopolis, I try to lessen the High Anxiety by breaking the trip down into a point to point scenario. I don’t think too far ahead. Just make it to the next marker. Hopefully the little successes will add up and out number any failures and by days end (now home),
I’ll feel like a winner.
Keep it simple, (A) the points you dread, you know the...
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If I were a rich man...
If I were a rich man…
Ya ha deedle deedle, bubba bubba deedle deedle dum.
Remember those lines? I do…
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I’d build a big tall...
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Web 3.0... Here we come.
Seattle… “Is your head in the cloud? Are your feet on the ground?”
Driving to work this morning the tall buildings had their tops in the clouds. Ah, clouds, it got me to thinking about Google’s purchase of Metaweb a few days ago.
Metaweb invented Freebase, a massive semantic database using what it calls “entities” that improve search by distinguishing...
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Localism 101, or is that Colloquialism 101?
One thing I really love about what I do is the opportunity to travel around the region and talk to real estate professionals in their community;
And there’s nothing like a good social media marketing conversation to quickly peel through the colloquial layers and get right down to the local state of the onion.
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The Narrows in Summer Fog...
The Narrows Bridge…
Out of the office today and headed for Gig Harbor, Washington for a day of social media marketing with Amy Kalafatich at The Talon Group. A new wave of real estate professionals are discovering the necessity of having a good online presence.
The dynamics of relationship building are essentially the same as they’ve always been, but where they start and how they...
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A thriving vibrant downtown say's a lot about a...
When the recession hit here in Renton, Washington a couple of years ago the evidence was immediate in old downtown. In less than a year it seemed every 4th or 5th door was closed and there was a For Rent sign in the window. My heart went out to these small shop merchants. I use to be one. Back in a different recession in the 70’s I had a small music store, Renton Guitar Studios. I...
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Eastlake & Lynn
Just a half block from work on a Friday morning. It’s gray and cooler this morning, but not raining. When I got off the freeway at Lakeview Ave I got hit by a sprinkler. It startled me and got my adrenalin pumping. Direct hit across the windshield from about 50 feet.
Headed for the office: The Talon Group, 2345 Eastlake Ave E…
July 16, 2010 Seattle, WA 98102
The Blackberry...
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Music Concrete
Friday morning and yahoo the traffic is light. Headed north through downtown Seattle, coming up on Madison St, and headed for the Eastlake neighborhood.
I love the patchwork of grids the buildings create. It reminds me of music. When I was at Soundwork Studio on Capitol Hill, and the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Oakland, California, I wrote and performed several electronic,...
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The bluest skies you've ever seen are in...
The upside for working late today is the traffic is light and I make record time getting home… Heading south on Interstate 5 around 7:00 PM the sky is a wonderful shade of blue and there’s ol’ Miss, her Majesty, Mt Rainier in the background. I’m at the northern end of Boeing Field.
I’m cracking myself up remembering as a kid watching ”Here Come the...
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and the wind cries Mary
and the wind cries Mary… Will the wind ever remember the names it has blown in the past?
The Pacific Northwest I grew up in was a quainter place, once upon a time. I was driving into Seattle passing an old familiar landmark today, the Chinook Motel. It was a Mom & Pop place, built in 1952. As I recall there were 8, or maybe 10 units. The owners (in the early years) lived on site in their...
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Stop Freakin...
I had a great social media marketing conversation in Spanaway this morning with some clients at Crescent Realty. We were talking about how search engines work, how to develop an online presence, and creating your own personal brand. It was a fun and lively conversation.
On the way back to the office I was replaying in my mind some of what we talked about when I came up next to the Beacon...
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The Peaceable Kingdom... Madrona, Seattle
The Madrona Neighborhood in Seattle, Washington has some of the area’s most beautiful views. I was heading home from the office, the freeway was jammed, so I opted for one my favorite drives down Lake Washington Boulevard. Don’t be in a hurry when you go this way. There are few stops and the traffic is usually light, but it’s mostly 25 miles an hour. But who cares?, there’s so much to look at....