First reblog since setting up Stowe Boyd as a Tumblr blog. The recent Books As Social Objects.
Goodbye /Message, Hello Stowe Boyd
Maybe it’s a midlife crisis, maybe I’m bored with old school blogging, maybe the petty annoyances of Squarespace have gotten to me; but whatever the cause, I am moving my blogging from the old /Message (located at www.stoweboyd.com/message) to Stowe Boyd (which is temporarily located at stoweboyd.tumblr.com).
I guess am dropping the more or less superfluous /Message, and making my blog eponymous since it has long been a solo effort, and the /Message overhead isn’t worth the confusion.
via Paul Robinson
For some period of time I plan to keep the old site up, and to slowly move the most important posts over here, and to leave behind a manual pointer and a javascript redirect at each moved post. After some (brief) period, I will redirect the domain here, and take down the old website altogether.
I am forced to these gyrations since a/ Tumblr has no import support whatsoever, and b/ Squarespace will let me export into Moveable Type format, but will not let me redirect posts outside the domain name I am using there.
I had considered Posterous, but the themes seem very scanty there, and the only mechanism for importing is reading one of the existing services they know how to spider, which doesn’t include Squarespace. And at any rate, they don’t conserve the old URLs anyway.
In the next few days I will port over the most active and popular posts, and I will hire a teenager to start working on the archives.
I am forced to leave around 5000 comments behind; I will try to figure out some way to do something about that. Even using Disqus wouldn’t have helped, since all the URLs are screwed up.
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Join us at mesh
Mark your calendars for the upcoming (and rescheduled) mesh — Canada’s web 2.0 conference - Toronto May 15 & 16. mesh will bring together great keynotes and speakers, including Om Malik, Paul Kedrosky, Andrew Coyne, Michael Geist, Tara Hunt, Paul Wells, Steve Rubel, Jason Fried, Stowe Boyd (yes, me), Amber McArthur, Ren Bucholz, Andrew Baron, Chris Messina, David Crow (whew!) and many others. Organizers include Rob Hyndman, Matthew Ingram, Mike McDerment, Stuart MacDonald, and Mark Evans.
Looks like a great conference, and a great venue. Toronto is a fabulous city.
[Long aside: I truly love Canada: even before my sister moved there and became a ‘landed’ immigrant after living in Toronto 20-odd years, I had traveled much of the country. In the past few decades, I have been to the country literally a hundred times or so, and I am increasingly enamored of this very foreign country so close by. I also hope that if I continue to say nice things, I will be allowed to emigrate, which looks like a better and better idea considering America’s political situation and progressive global warming. Although Toronto may be one day be under water as the Great Lakes slowly turn into a giant inland ocean.
MarketingMonger Podcast #3: Interview with Stowe Boyd
I was interviewed yesterday (via telephone from Stockholm) by Eric Mattson of MarketingMonger, a guy who plans to interview 1000 people in what is likely to be a multi-year project:
[from The Blog Post That Launched One Thousand Podcasts]So…taking a page from Greek Mythology, with this post I’m launching a project to conduct ONE THOUSAND podcast interviews of marketers, bloggers, authors, designers, entrepreneurs, and social media innovators.
I’m sure you have questions. Since I can guess at some here are my current answers.
Why do this?
I believe that social media is still in its infancy. Podcasting, tagging, blogging, gaming, social networking and similar trends have only just begun to affect our lives and marketing. In order to understand the changes, I believe that one must participate.
Why one thousand interviews?
I chose 1,000 because 100 seemed too easy and 10,000 seemed too big. A thousand interviews seems like a good “stretch” goal.
Why focus on marketing and social media?
Because that’s what I’m interested in. And if I’m going to talk about something for, hmmm, let’s see, 30 minutes x 1,000 interviews, carry the 2, roughly 500 hours, I want it to be interesting to me.
How long will it take?
I don’t know. A couple of years.
What do you hope to get out of this?
A better understanding of how social media is changing marketing. A chance to talk with interesting people. A better professional network. A chance to share all of that with the community. Maybe, BIG MAYBE, some consulting gigs or some sponsorship.
How can I help?
I’m glad you asked. Here’s my current thinking.
Subscribe - You can either simply subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed or to the podcast feed. If you need help, Apple explains how to use iTunes to subscribe or you can google it.
Participate - In order to conduct one thousand interviews, I need you. I will be proactively seeking out people to interview based on news and blogs and such but I’d love a willing victim or two. If you want to participate, you need to 30 minutes or so, a phone (landline prefered) and something marketing-related that you’re passionate about and want to talk about. Email me if you’re interested.
Advise Me - I’m relatively new to podcasting. As this project continues, I will be continually improving the podcasts that I make. If you know more than I do and want to give me some advice, I would love it. Just email me.
Support - Life costs money. But the podcasts I’m making will be free. Eventually, I may set up a tip jar for personal donations. But if your company might want to sponsor the project with cash and/or donations of services (castingWords, are you listening?), drop me an email. If nothing else, I like link love.
Have questions? Email me or post comments. The project is a work in progress.
Wild. I like a guy with big dreams. But since he is only on interview #3, he has a long way to go.
Here’s the podcast, although I think his story is more interesting than this interview: MarketingMonger: MarketingMonger Podcast #3: Interview with Stowe Boyd.
Social anthropologist, clairvoyant, postfuturist.
