So Brogan wrote on the Scoble Effect, well let me tell you there is a Brogan effect as well. I posted appreciatively to his blog for some great content, from which I took his direction and blogged on one of his 100 topic. So Brogan has a technorati authority of over 600 and Scoble over 6100.
Easy math indicates a direct article on Scoblizer would be about 100X views, views than Brogan. I’ve tested it against some low authority blogs and high authority referrers as well, 119 blog sources. Digg does however send some reasonable traffic my way. It’s not a linear scale, it appears to have tiers of disproportionate impact, with a lessening number of visits per authority as you go up in scale.
This appears to map out fairly well against a gizmodo baseline which I have had a direct post on one of the properties I manage, Gizmodo is worth 134 views. So I estimate the scoble effect at about 90-105 visitors. Is that close?
So I’m on a travel rant - Las Vegas has got to be the least productive city to ever be in. I fully understand that’s engineered that way - but when you’re a vendor AND have a real day job - Vegas sucks! I mean I like all the bright lights and crazy noises and just pacing around the casino, but that’s about it. Pace a while - back to the room.
Perhaps I should pick up gambling you say - not that excited about it. When I bet cash - it is literally - $1. I often get challenged that I’m obviously the chicken in this breakfast, rather than the Pig with that type of bet.
$1 is as real a bet as any and it’s the principle - right? The other reason I can’t gamble all night is that I will clearly have at least 1 or 2 conference calls at 5am local time, so “playing through” won’t work regardless of the O2 levels.
The coolest thing: The 5 am meeting will only be booked after you made plans to do to rock star karaoke @ the house of blues on the fly with a prospect who loves Karaoke.
So I have had the opportunity to see a good deal of Airport clubs around the global. So here are my 3 worst, as of today.
Manchester (MAN) United Kingdom - The delta crown room participating club is the weird yellow, or a least I remember it being yellow room where people are just JAMMED in, with restrooms in a shared corridor. The coffee maker was a good deal of work as well.
Philadelphia International (PHL) United States - This before the security crown room has only 1 bathroom - it also has an early 90’s feel. You are just a new terminal away from being off the list.
Frederic Chopin (WAW) Poland - While a really good selection of vodka in the duty free, the club room for British Air - SUCKED. It had a 70’s fake wall partition from like the brady bunch when I visited in 2001. It may be updated now, so I take it back if so. Business class sucked too on the flight to LHR.
I’m sure DTW’s club would be on the list if it weren’t for the cool new McNamara terminal - those NW lounges rock! Free wireless and a coney dog!
What lounges do you think are deserving of a worst rating?
It takes all kinds in this world and apparently I don’t take the cake for odd naming. I have kids named dijouri (after a didgeridoo) and Kevren, after the village of St. Keverne and Ron Kevern, a mentor of mine. Apparently this couple wanted to keep things real, by originally naming their newborn 4 Real, but it didn’t pass the naming rules of NZ.
Now the original idea is - what if it became a trend to have cool license plate like names - - agrav8 or 78 Stang. Think of the fun we could have Kewl Kid or RZR07, you could brand your kids. Brand as in logo, not scar - there will be enough scarring in life with a name like RZR or Dijouri - errr wait. Ok apparently I didn’t think ahead that there would be a cartoon called Digimon, admittedly I thought Digit might be a cool nick name - go immediately to math geek do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars. I got the nickname Golum and Sancho later in life - both are somewhat amusing stories, to other people.
In principle this is a growing challenge for individuality is increasingly over populated planet. I’m not sure what is a good name or a bad name, but I think culture and language are changing so quickly that all the old barometers are no longer viable. So our flat world is not only running out of IP addresses - apparently names as well.
All things are relative and typically where you predicts you views - so alas, as I left the greater Ann Arbor area after the birth of my twins to ATL, I felt a little more compelled to get a more mainstream name for my latest child, Prescott. We can’t all be super heroes, but we should all try to be super people and super tolerant. I look forward to the day we look back to superman being just another name….. Alas - what’s in a name?
We’ll see how this goes… Not sure about my level of blogging capabilities. Original and random content from me. I will steal my other posts, re-work them - whatever from other blogs I post on.
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