Book Review: Poke The Box by Seth Godin

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Poke The Box by Seth Godin
ISBN-10: 1936719002
ISBN-13: 978-1936719006

PROS:

  • Good, "eloquent rant" style.
  • Explores a number of angles about the core subject.
  • Neither overly long or short – just right to get you going.

CONS:

  • Occasionally repetitive.
  • Doesn't provide a blueprint – just the push.

SUMMARY: Godin at his best, provoking you to think and take initiative.  A definite must-read.

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Video Companies: What Keeps You On Top – Or Off The Bottom?

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We've been discussing the video wars here (part of the Everything Wars) for quite some time–indeed it seems we started pretty much around the blogs founding. Now, years later, though Netflix still dominates all there are quite a few services – Hulu, Vudu, Amazon.com, possibly even Facebook, and so on.  It seems a lot of people want a piece of the video market, even if they're not quite sure why, how, or what they want.

Now, as noted, Netflix still dominates, and if I may say, rightly so – they've been at this for years and did a good job.  But nothing is forever and there's a lot of competition, lots of current and future legal battles, and always the chance for people to do stupid or smart things.

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Go Farther: Comic Conventions

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So with Convention Career Connection out, I can't seem to step away from speculating on what can be done in the con scene to help people's careers.  So of course, I'm writing about it.  I've decided to analyze what more can be done at specific kinds of cons (in my opinion) to help people's careers.

First up?  Comic conventions.

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