- University of Florida
- University of Southern California
- University of Georgia
- Middle Tennessee State University
- Northland Community and Technical College
- University of Richmond
- Collegiate School (technically not a college, but sounds close enough)
- 1976 Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Columbia University (1983-1988)
A List of College Teams I’m Pretty Sure Could Beat the Redskins
October 21, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Naming Ain’t Easy… Right?
October 5, 2009 · 6 Comments
After losing the Richmond Braves to the suburbs of Atlanta, Richmond will once again have a minor-league baseball team in 2010, though this team will be AA.
The group behind the team and the Richmond Times-Dispatch are holding a competition to pick the name of the team from a list of five finalists:
- Richmond Rock Hoppers
- Richmond Rhinos
- Richmond Flatheads
- Richmond Flying Squirrels
- Richmond Hambones
I get what they are going for there, I’m just not sure they’ve succeeded. (On a side note, if you want to be compelled to wash your eyes out with acid, have a look at this RTD page where you can vote on your favorite name.)
I think Richmond can do better than that. I am throwing down the challenge here (which I will promote on Twitter): I think we can come up with 100 names that are all better than these five. Leave your suggestions in the comments.
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I was in the Wall Street Journal
May 9, 2009 · Comments Off
I forgot to mention that I was in the Wall Street Journal at the end of April, in an article about taking your data with you when you’re laid off.
The part about me:
When Tony Scida was laid off recently from his proofreader position at a small advertising agency in Richmond, Va., he didn’t take any email contacts from his computer because he signed a non-compete agreement. That didn’t much matter. He found most of them on Facebook and LinkedIn, and can contact them there.
Go read the rest of the article for the full story.
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Tagged: work, WSJ
Dollhouse
March 16, 2009 · 2 Comments
Is Dollhouse, the new Joss Whedon sci-fi show on Fox, any good? It’s OK. It’s well-done. But, Firefly was better. A lot better. Does that mean Dollhouse sucks? Maybe, but I still hope they don’t cancel it.
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Why timesdispatch.com sucks
February 25, 2009 · 1 Comment
While I’m sure everyone over at Media General means well and wants to do a good job gathering and delivering the news, the design of their news sites continues to be just terrible. I realize it is easy to criticize, but as a consumer, I find their sites almost unusable. For instance, if there is a photo included with a news story, this is how it looks when it loads in my browser:
Alright, so I’ve got that I’m looking at the Richmond Times-Dispatch web site. And I’ve got that it’s local news. Ah, good, it’s an article about Circuit City, that seems interesting. Wait, is this the whole article? That just looks like a picture caption. Oh, then I scroll down and find the story. Am I rewarded for my hunting expedition by enlightening and informative news? No! It is a 65-word story telling me what I already learned from the headline and not much more.
Surely there is a better way to present the news, even on RT-D budgets.
And don’t get me started on the URLs.
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New Blog: amiunemployed.com
February 21, 2009 · Comments Off
I’m blogging about my experience looking for a job and freelance work over at amiunemployed.com. Have a look an tell me what you think.
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Does your brand need an iPhone app?
November 21, 2008 · 3 Comments
Writing about the Sonos iPhone app got me thinking about branding (and brand extension), so I thought I’d get a little brandsignerish today. If you have an iPhone, you’ve probably seen the free Lightsaber app, which is now essentially an ad for The Force Unleashed, an iPhone game. But, did you know that Ralph Lauren has an iPhone app? And so do Pink (or is it P!nk?) and Nine Inch Nails (theirs is a paid version of the normally free Dance Dance Revolution-like Tap Tap Revenge).
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What does a 10,000-view day buy you?
November 17, 2008 · Comments Off
Fourteen days ago, a post on this site was linked by Daring Fireball, one of my favorite blogs. I can only imagine what his daily traffic is like, but presumably it is ample because he writes that site for a living. I can tell you that getting linked to by him sent me almost 10,000 views in one day. Oh how I wish I had Google Ads on this site that day! Predictably, that level of traffic did not persist.
Hey, it looks like the long tail!
The next day, maybe a tenth of the traffic. Since then, I’ve been averaging in the neighborhood of 50 views a day (I was getting more like 50 views a month, so this is still a big jump). But the biggest difference I’ve noticed over the last two weeks is that I get a lot more spam now. Fortunately Akismet catches almost all of it, but I got spammed about 100 times in the last two weeks alone. Which is as many as the site has gotten since moving over to WordPress.com in May.
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Which is more important, speed or prep?
November 5, 2008 · 1 Comment
Like almost anyone who spends any amount of time online, I recently had an idea for a web site (more on that at a later date). Having worked in marketing (of one form or another) for nearly all of my employed adulthood, and falling back on my college business courses, my first thought is to make a plan. A well-crafted strategy can be indispensable to endeavors in all sorts of industries. On the other hand, energy spent planning is energy diverted from building, as the chaps at 37 Signals wouldsay (though they’d say it more eloquently, I’m sure).
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