Derek Scruggs

For those of you confused about what and how to use RSS, here’s a great demo of exactly how to use it.

Sorry, Max, but I’m with Chris on this one. You can’t have it both ways. If your blog is not about sales leads (as you say in a comment to Chris’ post), then whey are you bragging about how many leads it generates (“two prospects have called me this way purely based on my blog”)? […]

Make sure you read this great series about the InfoSpace con from the Seattle Times.
I remember reading about Naveen Jain back then and thinking he was the consummate asshole. He used to brag about how smart he is. Not exactly a Level 5 leader.
He was predicting that InfoSpace would be the first trillion dollar company […]

Seth’s next book is called All Marketers are Liars. I haven’t read it yet (though I did download the free chapter ), but the name alone is testimony to his brilliance as a marketer. Who wouldn’t want to read that? I’m sure this will be another best seller. Like all great brands, he just keeps […]

This is cool – go to Google and type “weather: [your hometown]” to get the weather from Google. Here it is for Boulder.
Since I use Quick Search (scroll down to “Internet Explorer 5 Web Accessories” – specific Google instructions are at the bottom of this page), I just type ctrl-o to get the “Open […]

I use NewsGator as my aggregator - have been since version 1.0. Until about a month ago I took a “channels” view of the information. In other words, I would expand my “News” folder and see something like this:

Using it this way, I might see that A VC has a new post in it. So […]

I downloaded and started using BlogJet about a month ago. I put it head to head against w.bloggar and BlogJet is the clear winner. The main thing is true wysiwyg editing. I do a lot of HTML coding, so I’m not a non-techy who’s afraid of getting under the hood. but BlogJet makes, saying, embedding a […]

I thought it was funny, but it also reflects on the quality of my content lately.

If Karlheinz Stockhausen or maybe Terry Riley were beginning their careers today, maybe he would’ve come up with something like this.
And if Mom & Dad are reading, the inscrutable composer references prove that my insanely expensive music degree was worth every penny.