More Parking Lot Blogging!
I bet you thought I was kidding here when I said I might pursue my new niche in parking lot blogging. Not so - here today is an idea from Ross Mayfield:
My uncle was a guru on wall street when I asked him where I should invest my paper route money. He said to visit the parking lots of Silicon Valley companies during the weekend. If the parking lot was full, there was a good chance they were close to a breakthrough or release.
At the corporations I worked for, this would probably just mean that everyone was working on Powerpoint presentation for an upcoming planning conference. Anyway, I don't know much about Silicon Valley, so I don't know if it will work, but this is an interesting suggestion to use the Internet to gather intelligence:
But with enough mobloggers, a panopticon of performance may be a great leading indicator. So this weekend I started the Parking Lot Indicatr group and people have taken interest.
Hopefully, the cars are not all there responding to an SEC inquiry.
