The Steve Rubel Stream

Great post, Steve. As a consumer I find the fact that I can "tap into" the President's daily activities fascinating. Similarly, as a communications professional I have great admiration for his administration and advisors who are developing this strategy. It is certainly a first and perhaps a change of guard in how politicians engage with the greater public.

According to http://followcost.com/BarackObama, the President isn't very active on Twitter. And am I the only one creeped out by the photo illustration?

Yes, Brent. you are the only one. It's a brilliant illustration. But don't worry. IT'S NOT REAL!

Brent, I don't think the illustration was supposed to be soothing. The contemporary media-blasted world is part fairytale, part prophecy, and part nightmare.

Wonderful as it gets. If you just keep posting, there is nothing that can happen to you or your blog. The market is getting tough, you know. But, the fire get to it. Just look at seth godin, darren rowse and leo, they have done it too.

Interesting post Steve, in India we have our own politician (you might be familiar with his name as he was a candidate for UN Secretary General) - Shashi Tharoor who is also media savvy - you can check out http://www.shashitharoor.com/ and http://shashitharoor.in/ and yes he's on http://twitter.com/shashitharoor

Fire hose... no doubt!

I think more will always be revealed. I appreciate the heads up, but a firehose of acid rain burns the trees to the ground. That is his approach and it may working today, but everybody has to say stuff that has meaning of some sort and advances our quest for life on Earth. He has to back up words with deeds. Just sayin'.

@codinghorror has been saying this for a while too. You gotta be noisy to get noticed.

Fascinating. The implications of this new media age on business should be equally clear.

The fire hose analogy is perfect because it illustrates a problem that may arise at one of the extremes: drowning your target audience with too much information to reasonably process.

It's important to keep in mind that "relevance" is crucial in communication, and if this 'fire hose' idea is the trend, it should incorporate an efficient system for filtering the stream based on the audience (probably at the audience-level).

And I just noticed the date for this post. Oh well, I was a bit behind on my feeds...

The voices crying out to disallow this project are the same intolerant bigoted voiced that led to the rise of the brutal regimes in Germany and China and Italy in the middle of the last century. The sensitivity of the victims - is not a real excuse - that is a simple excuse to allow xenophobic, hostile, racist and prejudiced thinking to take root in our democracy. muslims died in the collapse of the towers as did jews and christians and non-believers. This was not an attack by the world muslims on America. It was an attack by a handful of thugs. We cannot let our own native thugs take control of this debate. Please people, come to your senses.

The voices crying out to disallow this project are the same intolerant bigoted voiced that led to the rise of the brutal regimes in Germany and China and Italy in the middle of the last century. The sensitivity of the victims - is not a real excuse - that is a simple excuse to allow xenophobic, hostile, racist and prejudiced thinking to take root in our democracy. muslims died in the collapse of the towers as did jews and christians and non-believers. This was not an attack by the world muslims on America. It was an attack by a handful of thugs. We cannot let our own native thugs take control of this debate. Please people, come to your senses.

What you don't hear about is the Greek Orthodox Church they are trying to build in the same Neighborhood,running into one roadblock after another from the NYC Government,Guess if their Faith took part in terrorism and preached Jihad from the Church,Obama would back them too.

What you don't hear about is the Greek Orthodox Church they are trying to build in the same Neighborhood,running into one roadblock after another from the NYC Government,Guess if their Faith took part in terrorism and preached Jihad from the Church,Obama would back them too.