Martin Koss – thinking out loud…
I don't mean to be so opinionated and argumentative, it's just me…
Some Good Ideas Are Actually Quite Crazy
Watching a recent episode of Dragon’s Den, I was amused when a couple of ‘ideas’ were laughed out of the den for being guilty of ‘complicating something’ – selling a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.
We’ve all heard the phrase “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” and while its good to be creative, inventive and looking for ways of making something better, very often, it’s good to leave well alone.
I often wonder what goes on behind the scenes that results in a relatively simple process being made unnecessarily complicated. Recent observations of poor usability include
eBay billing (paying seller fees, you would think, would be a click and a click and a ‘done’); ‘jumping through hoops’ to get in touch with customer services at a software company; a reminder I’ve had on both my PC and Mac for months telling me I have ‘bonuses to download’ but every time I click it I end up lost and completely fail to find whatever these unknown bonuses are and, one ‘annoyance’ that drove me absolutely nuts the other day was adding the Flash player to Firefox on a new computer.
Something you’d think would be a click and a click and ‘done’… It used to be! Continue reading
The .CO Exploitation Gold Rush
… or should I say the .CO Domain Exploitation BAND-WAGON?
Here we go again… The next wave of exploitation is upon us.
While the .co domain gold rush was gathering pace, we (after making initial enquiries) were under the impression that you had to have some connection with the phrase of the domain you wanted to buy in order to be eligible to actually buy it.
How silly we were to think there would be any ‘policing’ of it. After all, if it means someone or some company was set to rake in a few million, who the heck gives two hoots who buys your brand name or a domain they have no connection with, whatsoever?
Well, as it has turned out: No-one.
No-one policed the purchasing of the .co domains and no-one will police all the tricksters who will now turn around and sell them to the highest bidder. Continue reading
Have We All Become Gossiping Grannies
If what we’re seeing today is the future – someone shoot me now, please. Put me in a plywood box, hit play on ‘Wish You Were Here’ and send my splintered butt down the conveyor belt…
What on earth happened over the past 15 years to make us all turn into gossiping old grannies who sit around telling the world what happened to someone else, to spend our lives name-dropping and spilling the beans… Beans, that were, a few years ago, uninteresting and remain so – but for some odd reason that I can’t fathom out, all of a sudden the world is sharing the gossip and we’re all listening – well – not me – not exactly.
I personally think there are far too many extremely sad people out there with far too much time on their hands and far too much income generated from Adsense ads on their website gossip column. They simply can’t be bothered to create anything original – spending all their time regurgitating, retweeting, reposting, re-status-updating, reblogging…
Blah blah blah blah friggin blah. Continue reading
Be A Snitch For The Good Of The Internet
It winds me up sommat rotten when I hear of someone using a bogus copy of expensive software that the rest of use shell out good money for, or when I hear of someone’s huge collection of divx movies that were hacked and downloaded for free, or the DJ who proudly advertises 100,000 tracks – most of which came from LimeWire or some other dodgy website…
The thieving cheating criminal ______________s…
(feel free to fill in the blank with your own choice word)
Just this morning (or, the other morning, depending on when you’re reading this – or, one morning about a year ago – you get the idea) I was checking some ‘latest’ Google snippets and came across a PDF of Chris Brogan & Julien Smith’s book “Trust Agents” was now available via one of those sites that should, quite frankly, never get indexed by Google, should never be given any search engine rankings and should be taken down for illegal activities. Continue reading
“Thank You” Means A Lot More Than ‘Thanks’
Do you say “thank you”? All the time? Every time someone does something expected or unexpected? Think about it… Seriously think about it.
When you do something for someone – whether they are paying for it or your doing something out of the goodness of your heart – what’s the one thing you look forward to and hope for?
Yes… Continue reading
Blogging Time-Out
So much to do and so little time. Well, that’s my problem and I’m sure we’ve all been there many times and will be there again and again…
Anyway, the point of this post is to say I appreciate your time popping by the blog but it is going to take a back seat for a while as I am… Continue reading
My First Week In The Third Tribe
A week ago I became a paid subscriber at Third Tribe, expecting that by now I’d be raving about it and writing a 100% positive review – with no intentions of canceling my subscription. However – things didn’t pan out as expected. Continue reading
Are You Listening To You
Yesterday I had a lengthy (and painful) chat to a business owner about numerous websites and (rather dull) stuff but boy this guy absolutely loved the sound of his own voice – well – he must do because he certainly wasn’t listening to me. Continue reading
90% Of Web Content is Clutter – A Conversation
Chris started the conversation with “I was asked today what’s better marketing content – Written, or Audio, or Video format? I always answer that All three are better. 
First create an audio version of the content, have it transcribed (written content type) & then Continue reading