| Apr 12, 2010 in Fun, Presentations |  0 |
The 2.0 version of IgniteATL is taking place Monday April 19th at 6:30. The event has been taken over by Patrick Nickles who has moved the locale to the Georgia Aquarium. The vid does a nice job of explaining Ignite.
Patrick is looking for speakers, sponsors, and volunteers. And if you are going to go, you need to register. Ignite is a great format. If it is anything like the last event it will be mind expanding and fun!
| Apr 01, 2010 in Fun, Games | 4 |
As announced back in February, tonight at Cypress Street (817 West Peachtree Street) we are having a little gathering to take advantage of a Scoutmob 50% off deal and a beautiful spring evening. The Cypress Street Pale Ale (house beer by Flying Dog Brewery) which is normally $3 will be a steal at $1.50 per pint with the Scoutmob deal. I'm heading over to an open house of Damballa's new digs and then to Cypress around 6:30. I'll see you there.
| Feb 24, 2010 in Food and Drink, Fun | 6 |
So I came into the offfice today and was greeted with this:
The Scoutmob link led to a 50% off deal at Cypress Street Pint & Plate, a place I go to often for lunch and after work to meet with people about startup related activities. Like the place a lot. Even pointed the JungleDisk folks there for their recent Startup Tweetup Atlanta. So I replied:
Which led to the question:
To which I messaged:
So go grab that Scoutmob Cypress Street deal and let's get together on April 1 to welcome in spring. It should be a great night for good food, good friends, and good beer on the patio by the fire.
| Feb 10, 2010 in Fun, Personal | 5 |
The other day while perusing Twitter I came across Typealyzer. Typealyzer is an application that looks at the content of a blog to determine its personality within the Myer-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) framework. Merely type in the URL of the blog and voila.
Who can resist, so I typed blog.weatherby.net into the input box.
The output, claimed FoG was an INTJ or “Scientist.”
Over the years I have taken a few MBTIs. The results have been mixed, ENTJ, ISTJ, ESTJ, and ENTJ. I believe I am a border line INTJ/ENTJ. Here are some characteristics of ENTJs, "The Executives."
Seem like the behavior you have been seeing on FoG over the past week or so? It does to me.
Bill Gates' blog is an ESTJ and Fake Steve an ISTP. SecretSig, which may be more of a reflection of me than Sig Mosely, is an ENTJ.
Give Typealyzer a whirl, it's fun. What's the personality of your blog?
| Nov 17, 2009 in ATDC, Fun, Internet, Social Media | 1 |
| Oct 05, 2009 in Fun, Internet, Personal | 19 |
I am removing the Twitter application from my Facebook account. I am doing this because I spent about four hours with some of the folks I came of age with at my high school class reunion. It was good time. And I learned a few things. Most of these folks are not in the world of tech so they have a different perspective about social networks. A perspective more like mainstream America.
It is nothing new to me, but people that are on Facebook and not on Twitter do not understand the machine language to operate Twitter. Too many @ replies and shortened URLs take a Facebook user out of context. It's confusing to them. Why bring confusion to communications?
Something that I did not realize before, but makes total sense now, is my twitter comment stream is heavily populated with information about my work. Too much information about my work for mostly non-professional contacts and friends. To them it is comment pollution. Who wants that?
Perhaps the most essential thing that I learned was that I have fallen completely out of touch with some people that were important to me. It saddens me. I am going to spend a little effort to change that. Maybe more than a little. You won't be reading much about that here, it's an offline personal endeavor.
And you also won't be reading my Twitter updates on Facebook any longer.
| Jul 23, 2009 in ATDC, Current Affairs, Fun, Startups | 5 |
Chris Anderson the editor of WIRED was on Colbert last night pimping his new book, Free: The Future of a Radical Price (which by the way is free on iTunes as an audiobook.
At the 4:57 mark this exchange takes place:
Colbert: Can I twitter send me cash? It that legal?
Anderson: Twitpay. I believe.
Colbert: Twitpay?
Anderson: Twitpay.
Colbert: Some say I get that now.
The entire vid is worth a watch.
And it's pretty cool that the editor of WIRED knows about a company I helped create at Atlanta Startup Weekend. The company was also written up again in The New York times yesterday.
Disclosure: I am a Twitpay adviser and stockholder.
| Jul 08, 2009 in Fun, Presentations, Startups | 6 |
Tonight I had the pleasure to be a guest speaker along with Bill Nussey of Silverpop at the Shotput Ventures weekly dinner meeting. I gave an updated version of my "Startups in 12 Quotes" presentation. It was actually titled "Startups in 12 Quotes". The reason for the change is at the end I pulled out my recently finished copy of Ignore Everybody and read three choice quotes from the book. And then I announced the Ignore Everybody Social Project.
You see I took Hugh MacLeod up on his secret evil plan to get a signed copy of the book. True to his word he sent it and thus I have two copies. I am quite sure the intent of this promotion was to create a pass along effect. I just decided to formalize the pass along of my copy.
Here's the deal. I gave my unsigned copy to Nelson. It is well marked with the passages that I found of interest. It has my name and the date I completed reading it on the inside cover. I instructed Nelson to:
We will do this until Shotput's demo day where the book will be passed along to the next participant. It would be really cool if we could get one person from each Shotput company to participant before then.
We will then go through steps one through four again among the broader Atlanta startup community. At that point we will have a unique community created social object.
Rock on.
| Jun 23, 2009 in Fun | 0 |
| Jun 17, 2009 in Fun, Personal | 1 |
I really did create Secret Sig. And it pretty much unfolded the way that I described in my How I Created Secret Sig post (less all the snarkiness). And after I made Secret Sig I pretty much put it on the shelf. But like the ring of power Secret Sig did indeed have a will of its own. And like the ring of power it was forgotten for a long time. Until it awoke and ensnared me. This is the story about how Sig Mosley found out that I created Secret Sig.
Once again, it all started innocently enough. It was June of 2008. I had a meeting with Melanie Leeth of Imlay Investments. I wanted to get her view on one of the companies that I advise. And as is often the case when seeking Melanie's advice we were having a great conversation. Right in the middle of it she changed the subject. Melanie asked me "Lance, what are your going to do?" Well since she asked me, I told her. I told her my master plan. She wanted to know if I had discussed this with Sig. I told her no and she encouraged me to do so. So shortly thereafter I sent Sig a note and we scheduled lunch at the now defunct The Globe in Technology Square.
Sig Mosley and I went to lunch. We had a good meeting. As we were winding things down and settling our tab Sig asked me one last short question.
"Have you ever heard of Twitter?"
"Yes" I replied as calmly as possible while a B9 voice started screaming in my head.
"Well somebody has gone and created a Twitter account called Secret Sig and attached a Web page to it. Would you have any idea about how someone could do such a thing?" Sig asked. I am not sure of the exact words. I was in a state of shock. And panic.
Yes, Secret Sig did indeed have a will of its own. And lots of power. The power of Web crawlers. The power of search engines. All you have to do is bing Sig Mosley to understand the extent of the power. Someone close to Sig had searched on the term Sig Mosely and told him about Secret Sig.
Here I was sitting across from the most powerful technology investor in Atlanta, if not the Southeast, and he was asking me a direct question about something that I had created to semi-impersonate him. I never dreamed that things would unfold this way. People talking about it at an event and online with me just listening, sure. Getting asked a direct question from Sig himself, no. My mind was racing. Really, really racing. I had not done anything with the Secret Sig persona for several months. Was this an innocent question? Was there some artifact out on the Web that connected me to Secret Sig from the botched first attempt? Does he know? What do I say? Is my master plan going to completely blow up before it gets out of the gate? My career flashed before my eyes. I tried to stay as visibly calm as possible.
You know they say under stress people revert to their true self. I believe in being honest. It's what my parents taught me. So I came clean. I told Sig the truth. It was really the only option. "Yes Sig, I know how someone could do such a thing. I created Secret Sig."
And waited for a response. Waited for what seemed an eternity. How was the unwitting father of Atlanta angel investing going to respond to this gem of a confession? I really did not know him very well. We had worked together on the GRA/TAG business launch competition but that was about it. I had no idea how he was going to react. I was dying.
And what did Sig do? Sig smiled. To me at the moment a smile that was more beautiful than the Mona Lisa. With that smile I knew things were going to be all right.
Sig asked me how I did it. I told him the story. He asked me about Twitter. I told him all about that as well. Sig asked me if he could have control of @secretsig. I said yes. I even game him a tutorial on how to use it. With the exception of an entry or two at the beginning it has been Sig himself tweeting since last June.
Eventually Sig asked me if he could have control of Secret Sig he wanted to change some of the content. Correct some errors in fact. I said yes. Came to find that there is really no way to transfer a blogger account. So I am now the webmaster of the only Web presence of Sig Mosley and Imlay Investments. Sig wants changes, I get cracking.
Serves me right.
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