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Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, and Remote Work: a Missed Opportunity

Alan Langford — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 15:51:28 +0000

Marissa Meyer is eliminating remote work at Yahoo. Even though she might be right about the benefits, it is a missed opportunity to innovate.

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Are LinkedIn Endorsements Useless?

Alan Langford — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:50:03 +0000

Some of my LinkedIn connections have endorsed me for skills I haven't delivered to them. Ever the cynic, I ran a test to see how useful endorsements really are. I didn't get the result I expected.

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On Content Marketing: It’s about Content, Stupid

Alan Langford — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 15:55:00 +0000

For the past few years, the leading edge of online marketing has been “content marketing”. As advertising becomes increasingly ineffective at driving sales, and as most lead generation tends to come via search engines, marketers have figured out how to produce content that ranks well in search, which brings traffic, which converts to sales/revenue/whatever. The [...]

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Hello Two Zero One Three

Alan Langford — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 05:44:26 +0000

I’ve spent a good part of the holidays trying to reconcile the over-saturation in my life. Of the large number of things I’d like to be doing, I’m coming up against the realization that I’m attempting to do too many of them. The result is a spectrum of underachievement. Part of this over-commitment has been [...]

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Wine Writers Behaving Badly, the Natalie MacLean Story

Alan Langford — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 04:21:42 +0000

Let me start this with full disclosure. Although I am not a member of the wine writing community, I have close ties to it. I have a business relationship with two of the writers who have complained about theft of their content, and I know several more personally. Additionally I have business and personal relationships [...]

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Unifying the Liberal and Conservative Perspectives on Government

Alan Langford — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:15:12 +0000

The path to a stable democracy is to measure government in terms of value, rather than size or cost. Return on Taxation should be the metric that both liberals and conservatives maximize.

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Six Degrees of Redirection

Alan Langford — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 03:22:08 +0000

This is a story of feature creep. We started with an idea that was truly useful: link shortening services. These services allowed people to take bloated SEO-laden links (like the ones on this blog) and reduce them to compact links under 20 characters. Perfect for pasting into an e-mail, even better for a length-limited Tweet. [...]

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Why Justin Trudeau Should be Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada

Alan Langford — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:45:03 +0000

Justin Trudeau is entering the race for the leadership of the Liberals. Polls within the party are said to show that he’s likely to win. While this might not be a great thing for the Liberals, it’s great for the country. If the Liberals elect Trudeau, they’ll be sending a clear signal: that their collective [...]

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Open Season on Patents

Alan Langford — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:12:51 +0000

A recent change in U.S. patent law allows third parties to discuss a patent’s merits and submit evidence of prior art. This provides a new method for challenging some of the utterly moronic patents the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has let slip by.[Side rant: since the original two parties were the person filing the patent [...]

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Twitter: Join the Measurable Audience

Alan Langford — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 19:13:24 +0000

Twitter has generated a fair bit of unrest lately, much of it in the developer community. The main source of this unrest is changes to their API that make life nearly impossible for third party Twitter clients. Needless to say, this has riled up a good portion of the developer community. The assumption has been [...]

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