Just a short post tonight, since I spent so much time cruising my blogroll and filling my head with ideas from across the world wide weeb tonight. The good news is it’s not all just reading, there are some great videos in the mix.

Up First: Guy Kawasaki

Always entertaining, Guy was on a roll on the day he filmed this run through his The Art of the Start talk. It’s about 40 minutes long, and worth the time, even if you’re familiar with some of his material already. Lots of gems:

• “Don’t do better sameness…”
• “Who is my customer and how do I get my money out of her purse?”

Next Up: Hugh MacLeod

Then I caught Austin Hill’s valentine to Hugh MacLeod and the link to the HughTrain Manifesto therein. The (now two-year-old) HughTrain was inspired by and in many ways echoed the original Cluetrain (which is now pushing 8 years old, yowza). It didn’t hit me as hard as it did Austin, but again, gems to be found throughout:

• “I donʼt want to know why your brand is good, or very good, or even great. I want to know why your brand is totally frickinʼ amazing.”
• Q: “Why do you blog?” A: “To make money, you stupid –”
• “A bad carpenter thinks his shiny, new tools are going to save his sorry ass from oblivion.”
• “Business is change. There is nothing else.”
• “The Customer is a human being. The Consumer is a metaphor.”

Third Up: Digital Ethnography

Steve Poland’s TechCrunch post today featured a cool video by anthropology prof Michael Wesch. It caught my eye because Steve referred to the widgetizing of the web (a bandwagon I hope to hop aboard later this year), but Prof. Wesch’s presentation had a lot more going on than just that. Take the five minutes to check it out, it’s definitely worthwhile.

Funnies

I also caught some non-work-related videos this weekend, and thought I’d queue them up and get in the habit of ending each of my posts with some fun / amusing / entertaining video you may not have seen before. That way, if I’m boring you out of your tree, you’ll still have something to look forward to.

Have you already seen Jedi Breakfast? Be warned… as with some of the business content linked above, there’s some foul language.

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