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Comment on Use X-Lite to call Talkshoe Free by randulo

randulo — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:31:51 +0000

You can log in to Talkshoe or not, as you wish. Logging in to Talkshoe gives you a screen with who else is logged in and who is dialed in and able to speak. To talk on the call, you need to call via regular phone, Shoephone (free download from Talkshoe) or X-Lite which is an excellent free software phone. I notice the number given in the graphic is wrong. The code is 11888.

7463#11888#0000000000@proxy.ideasip.com where you put your personal PIN in the place of 0000000000. The PIN is set when you join Talkshoe and can be changed by going to My Account on their site.

Comment on Use X-Lite to call Talkshoe Free by Graeme Sheridan

Graeme Sheridan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:50:04 +0000

How do log on to calls in the first place. i.e. Log in to Talkshoe join a call there and then dial in from x-lite ?

Comment on Core Wine Company Visit by French Malbec

French Malbec — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:57:43 +0000

[...] this summer. Enjoy his input on how he makes his Malbec on the Internet live radio show of the newwineconsumer.com site. Comments (0) | Trackbacks [...]

Comment on Dave Eve Randy Andy Randy Hardy and Mike by Social Media and the Wine Industry: A really Goode job search is now over! « Andy’s Goode Life Blog

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:22:22 +0000

[...] all things wine, his quirky sense of humour and his gentlemanly manner. He really impressed me on Randulo’s radio broadcast The New Wine Consumer: This is where I realized that I have still got a lot to learn about what [...]

Comment on Randall Grahm, an American Original by Wine Biz Radio » Blog Archive » Jonesin’ for Bonny Grahms

Wine Biz Radio » Blog Archive » Jonesin’ for Bonny Grahms — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:31:01 +0000

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Comment on Strange Fruit, the lynching of Murphy-Goode by randulo

randulo — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:52:01 +0000

Andy , thanks for listening and commenting. The idea of keeping Martin in the top 50 was from Alex from Diggnation, not me, and I don’t agree with it. Although I applaud his idea for commercial diplomacy value, in the absolute it would be a lie and I think if anyone ever found that out, it would create a much worse stink: “They knew they didn’t like him but they still raised his hopes and cheated his fans!”

My conclusion is still to not have had a vote at all since now I feel that people would never have read the clause about the weight of the vote. In other words, the value (or not) of votes would have to be one of the main statements on the original site, and let’s face it, that’s stupid and wouldn’t fly.

I also think what I’ve always thought: Almost no one actually reads web pages (we scan them) and of that small percentage, NO ONE reads the fine print. Putting EULA, TOS or Fine Print above a paragraph is like a guarantee that the crickets will chirp and people will doze off.

Comment on Strange Fruit, the lynching of Murphy-Goode by A Really Goode Decision | Caveman Wines: Wine PR, Wine Public Relations, Wine Marketing

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 05:44:05 +0000

[...] While overall I feel that this was a successful promotion by M-G, it was not free of mistakes and they consequently found themselves in the line of fire from influential internet critics such as Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht of Diggnation. We discussed this at length on today’s New Wine Consumer. [...]

Comment on Strange Fruit, the lynching of Murphy-Goode by Andy

Andy — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:58:31 +0000

Listening to the podcast later, something Dave said about the “fine” print and how it failed to state how the candidate would be choosen.

I *do* remember reading multiple tweets from MG stating: remember to make your vote on who you think really will fit into the winery.

These came out often when the #areallygoodejob hashtag would become overflooded with “vote me” tweets and their retweets.

And something Randy said: why not keep Martin in the top 50 just by merrit of what he accomplished… lead me to the thought that you see that MG’s sole purpose in the process was to find the correct person for the job and not to milk Martin for all the “free publicity” he could have brought to the campaign had he made the top 50…

(And now I am cutting the interview short, sorry… I am tired. I will come back, though!)

One more observation: Martin did not send out oodles of “vote me tweets” nor did he plaster his blog with posts on it, he did one post, two or three tweets and then just let it run.

Comment on Strange Fruit, the lynching of Murphy-Goode by randulo

randulo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:32:26 +0000

ryan :

Will be catching a plane to the US at this time…headed to the WBC…Will try to listen after, though I still think this is a whole lot of nothing. Yes Murphy Goode doesn’t get it, but it’s their job…and now it’s up to the real winner to have fun!

We’ll miss you live. I have to disagree about it being “nothing” when the red flagged results come up on the first page of a Google search, though. We’ll see how long this lasts.

In the absolute cosmic sense, I’d say… well, let’s see what everyone says in a couple of hours. Have a great trip and a great WBC: http://winebloggersconference.org/

Comment on Strange Fruit, the lynching of Murphy-Goode by ryan

ryan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:33:09 +0000

Will be catching a plane to the US at this time…headed to the WBC…Will try to listen after, though I still think this is a whole lot of nothing. Yes Murphy Goode doesn’t get it, but it’s their job…and now it’s up to the real winner to have fun!