CPM Advisors has launched and I am one of the contributors (as is now reflected in my LinkedIn profile). It’s essentially the research and consulting piece of what I’m doing right now - alongside launching an exciting new Advertising 2.0 company (more about that later!). We’ll also have some very cool additional contributers so keep an eye open for that too.

It’s really tough to find engineers in Silicon Valley apparently, much less cofounders and never mind “Ruby on Rails Ninjas”: as an example, the posting pictured here slapped on a free newspaper dispenser on University Avenue in Palo Alto.  It’s not quite an upside-down billboard but if it gets a bit of attention and one or two blog posts and a few diggs - there you go! I guess I’m a (witting) participant in advertising their posting now. Well done! The company has a meta-search engine with ongoing updates, RSS feeds and so on it appears.

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said the accident showed how fragile the Bay area’s transportation network is, whether to an earthquake or terrorist attack, and has the potential to have a major economic effect on the city.(Washington Post)

Indeed it does — but it’s also amazing how it takes these types of things for people to understand how such events could impact us. Our memories (e.g. earthquake) are incredibly short, it appears…

… since it took a day-and-a-half for me to get the confirmation email after I signed up at AGLOCO.com. That must be a new record! If anyone wants to sign up and use my referral number, by all means, make me filthy rich by using BBBC0112 as your referral code. No doubt I’ll post more about the service as I continue to research it …

For a while I have wanted to switch to a more personal blog, and thought that why not utilize the leathern.com name and domain name. To try to pretend that the words we write in these electronic fora are anything other than permanent is self-delusion (even though the audience for these may not be large currently) and so we should own up to it. Whether it is a simple Google search on your name (you should be so lucky to be googled!) this information is out there. So why fight it. Also, I feel increasingly disconnected from the “analyst” mindset and position that I used to occupy in my internet/financial analyst days. Thus, analystblog will remain up for some time and will direct people to this, my new blog. I will also consider selling the analystblog domain after some time has elapsed, if anyone is interested (I know my previous employer, Jupiter Research, was at one stage very interested in having it).

The blog format is really about the “journal” format (though it is used for all types of online publishing these days it seems) and so I want to be more true to that. Regardless, I’ll still comment about and link to all manner of things, and hopefully more regularly than I did for analystblog.

I welcome your comments and feedback as always.