Archive for December, 2005

Blogometer Reboot

Monday, December 26th, 2005

Alan’s Blogometer Has Moved
The blogometer has moved. The URL for my blog is now.
http://blogometer.com/
This is the new URL for the web log of Alan Gutierrez. I’m going to find another place for the my boring technical notes, and use this as a place to record my real career experiences.
I registered the domain name blogometer.com in […]

Corporate Persona

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Bad Blogger! - I’m posting this now, but I’ve got too much to do today. This is my next post. It will be updated throughout the day.
Persona Management
People tell me that they like my blog when I post about New Orleans, but the rest of the stuff, it doesn’t mean anything to them. Sometimes those […]

ReThink New Orleans

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

This is an announcement of the re-release of Think New Orleans, you can follow along at the beta site Think New Orleans (Beta), which will stay a step ahead at all times. (More later, in a posting to be entitled, Forever Beta.)
It’s maybe a bit too early to announce, but there’s traffic here for corporate […]

When Good Web Services Go Bad

Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

How to deal with Web Service failures, a guide for Web Service Providers and Web Service Users alike.

The Corporate Blogging Book

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Debbie Weil is writing a on corporate blogging, The Corporate Blogging Book.

Keeping The Ball Rolling on Big Blogging

Sunday, December 18th, 2005

I expanded my posting on Big Blogging last night. I expanded it greatly, in response to a post by Robert Scoble, on Being Yourself. Scoble came by and left a comment. Thank you, Robert. Now, how to I get others to converse with me about this? What do real bloggers think the 5 Steps for […]

Have a Rupee, Leave a Rupee

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

Niti Bhan tells a story, about coinage and an awkward kindness, in her posting The Karma of Brown Folk that I find amusing.
Apparently, she’s been off to India. Apparently that’s home. There’s quite a travelogue, with flickr photos of family and essays on the effects 8% growth, Indian innovation, and life in the call […]

RSS 2.0 Import

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

This is live blogging of boring things. Suffer with me as I spend my Saturday night working on something that I’ve longed to have finished for some time. A waste of bits and bandwidth, and dear reader, a waste of your precious time, but I must, must get this completed.
Let this be a record of […]

Seasonal Effecitive Disorder

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

I’m having a long slow meltdown. In part it’s the snow. Well, not the snow. I like snow. Cold. The cold is no fun.
Snow makes it easier to bear. It is pretty, a sight to behold.
When it is simply cold, with no snow, there’s no sense to that.
That’s just Michigan being angry.

Literary Fop

Saturday, December 17th, 2005

I’m suffering from mincing mid-winter Michigan prose.