eric rochow

My friend Mabel, who is one of the smartest people I know, has launched Tot Swap Shop, a website for people with children who want to give items they no longer need to people who do need them and vice versa.
Mabel bought me lunch several times while developing Tot Swap Shop to get my input [...]

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I’ve been on the road a lot lately, and as I looked at a highway full of traffic, I saw a few semi trucks, thought about the truckers talking to each other on their CB radios and remembered when CB radios first came out.
I would sit in my father’s car after dinner and try to [...]

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I just checked on Gardenfork’s iTunes page, and noticed some new viewer reviews, which are always fun to read. Haven’t gotten any angry comments yet. I can’t really put it into words, but people watch an episode of Gardenfork and there is this ‘connect’ that happens to a lot of those who watch.
Here are a [...]

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The Greenhouse has surpassed 100 members. Neat. According to Ning’s stats, the site has had 35,000 views. From what I can tell, more people learned of The Greenhouse from Gardenfork than from Real World Green.
The Greenhouse has been showing up in Google searches. One new member specifically cited a Google search for yogurt cheese [...]

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I was on a flight to San Jose last night, and I noticed several people who had shirts on that suggested they had something to do with the tech world. One had a Facebook developers t-shirt on.

I was thinking that there is a certain mass anonymity in airports, yet there is this great potential as [...]

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I set up Twitter Tools a while back to post a daily digest of my Twitters on my blog here. I’ve decided to turn that particular feature of Twitter Tools off. I’ve found that while my Twitters have some relevance, they aren’t great blog posts, and people who subscribed to the blog don’t need their [...]

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I got my first Twitter Spam today. Or at least I was invited to follow a Twitter account that was all spam.

Whenever I’m told someone is following me, and I’m asked if I want to follow them, I check out their Twitter page to see just what it is they Twitter. This person is following [...]

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my social media friends Nicole and Marc of The Wood Whisperer gave a talk at Podcamp AZ about using Ustream.tv
Nicole makes some very good points about stickiness and building viewers into foamers.

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