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I’ll be at Blog World Expo 2007 WITH CAKE October 30, 2007

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Okay, without cake. But Metia is indeed sending me to Blog World Expo in Las Vegas.

Although now that I think about it, handing out cake at a conference would make my personal brand even stronger.

Join me at Blog World Expo 2007

Only 88% addicted to blogging? That can’t be right. August 24, 2007

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How Addicted to Blogging Are You? - 88%

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(Via Valkyrierisen)

We have a Coke employee! Vanilla Coke coming back, he says. May 7, 2007

Posted by Wade Rockett in Blogging, Loyalty Programs.
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Rockett Science reader eric h has been giving advice to frustrated My Coke Rewards participants in the comments on “You know what? Screw my Coke Rewards Points.” Today, Eric revealed that he is an employee of the Coca-Cola company. Is he for real? Time will tell, although he did drop the insider news that the discontinued Vanilla Coke flavor is coming back next week.

(As I wrote “Is he for real?” I wondered to myself why someone would pose as a Coke employee. But then I remembered that when I signed up for AOL back in the mid-90s I tried to create the user account “ColonelSanders”. I planned to go into chat rooms and try to steer every conversation toward the subject of chicken. Sadly, AOL denied me the user name.)

I’m assuming that the views expressed in Eric’s comments do not necessarily reflect the views of his employer.

Comment madness! May 1, 2007

Posted by Wade Rockett in Blogging, Loyalty Programs, Marketing.
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I can’t decide whether to close the comments (62 so far) on “You know what? Screw my Coke Rewards points” or leave it open and see where it all goes. The insane amount of attention that single post gets is annoying, but it’s also fascinating. My blog is a locus of Coke rage!
As a marketing bastard, would it be wrong of me to deprive Coke of such a wealth of customer feedback? I just wish someone from Coke would join the conversation and start answering these complaints.

What the Web wants March 3, 2007

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Every so often I check the stats on the old Blogger version of Rockett Science. To this day, the searches that consistently drive the most traffic to that site are for Pomme and Kelly and Whores of Warcraft.

If I could get an an interview with Pomme and Kelly asking them what they think of Whores of Warcraft, my hits would go through the roof.

Science report 1.3.2007 January 3, 2007

Posted by Wade Rockett in Blogging, Books, Church, Podcasting, Technology, Wordpress, Work.
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Blogging

  • Created a second WordPress blog, which is not quite presentable yet.
  • Spoke with my wife and my friend Jim about the pros and cons of Blogger and WordPress.
    • My wife is thoroughly unimpressed with WordPress. She mainly wants to post pictures, and Blogger lets you upload them directly to the blog. WordPress…well, I guess it does too, sort of. But not as easily as in Blogger.

Work

  • Am struggling with post-holiday and post-illness fatigue.
  • Many people are still out on vacation. It’s slow and quiet. This makes me antsy.
    • Not antsy enough to want to update spreadsheets with new product names, though.

Life

  • New Year’s Eve was quiet. We watched a Fred and Ginger movie and ate Chinese food from Imperial Wok - the only good Chinese restaurant in Bothell.
  • Crab Rangoon Wontons are excellent, mainly because of the name.
  • We spent our anniversary doing small things. We bought ourselves small gifts that would make our lives better, such as notebooks and desktop organizers. We bought bottled water from Wales and cookies from England. We ate steak and garlic mashed potatoes.
  • This Saturday we’ll go out on the town.
    • Must get concert tickets for Benaroya Hall.
  • My weight gain in 2007 causes me to resemble Otis, Lex Luthor’s bumbling henchman in Superman: The Movie. This year I return to Weight Watchers.

Podcasting

  • Messed about with the iRiver, testing it in church to see if it would pick up Fr. John’s sermon, and in a conference room to see how it registered me speaking in a quietly conversational tone.
    • It works pretty good.
  • Began reading Podcasting For Dummies.
  • Discovered Odeo Studio.
  • Mixed a test recording on Audacity - me speaking over the randomly chosen song “Ziggy Stardust”.

Mother will be so pleased January 2, 2007

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Look Ma, I’m in TIME! Sort of!

Originally uploaded by Wade Rockett.

Clicking the “Related Blogs and Articles” link beneath TIME magazine’s article about Second Life currently displays my post in The New Marketing on the threat of animated flying pink penises.

The article is in TIME’s Person of the Year issue. in case you missed it, said Person was YOU! Landsakes.

Science report 12.28.2006 December 28, 2006

Posted by Wade Rockett in Blogging, Church, Games, Technology, Webmastery, Wordpress, Work.
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Blogging

Work

  • Taking advantage of a brief post-holiday lull to update timesheets, organize e-mail and docs, and work on small, low priority projects.
  • Installed Skype.

Life

  • Our 12-year wedding anniversary approaches.
  • As does the iRiver mp3 player/recorder that didn’t make it in time for Christmas.
    • When the iRiver arrives, podcasting will ensue.
  • Unknown Armies one-shot at Phoenix Games rescheduled for January 5th.

Outstanding issues

  • The Redeemer site still displays the wrong day for events. Where’s the problem - in the RS Events plugin, or the LivingOS PSI template? Or is it perhaps Satan?