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Category: work

  • Oil spill, empathy, luxury goods, presidents, and Maddow

    ended up watching this masterfully illustrated version of a very well organized, thought out and delivered talk by Jeremy Rifkin on the ideas in his book The Empathetic Civilization . In the afterglow of a great tube experience, pretty quickly i realized i didn’t actually feel like i’d really learned anything. I’m pretty sure I…

  • How to fix a cracked iPhone 3G/s screen Los Angeles Edition. My first flawless customer experience

    Ifixnow.com. if I’d been ready then he would have had me over. 800 number. Takes appointments, Says repairs take 20 minutes. Took under 20 minutes. Phone returned fixed , cleaned and with one of those peel off protectors that made it feel like a virgin, though obviously still ATT.

  • Craigslist: Capitalist Tool. Cr(t)aigslist: Biz travel hack.

    It’s not Forbes magazine. It’s neo -hippy -do -good -won’t -ipo -customer-focused -san-francisco -kook -free-speech -of-a-business that’s changing offline small business as much as any online entity. Thanks to Craigslist, I just rented my little backhouse in a single day for the third time in five years, at my asking price with plenty of back-up…

  • NowPublic takes it up a notch

    Congrats to the NowPublic management team on closing their $1.4 million angel round. (Disclosure: I’m an advisor and now a minor investor.) I got some perspective on how hard it is to facilitate and encourage citizen journalism working on Bayosphere last year. NowPublic‘s come a long way since the first site I saw that they…

  • Michael Goff: My bio

    Now: CEO/Partner, Grassroots Media, Inc., Bayosphere Advisor: NowPublic, Center for Citizen Media Megalomedia Inc. Before: Lead Volunteer (Haiti), Clinton AIDS Initiative CEO, The Accelerator Group & Roamable Corp General Manager, programming and technologies, MSN Editorial Director, Microsoft Sidewalk city guides Founder, EIC & President, Out magazine