Rafael Marquez Online

I’m going to make it to South by Southwest Interactive this year. Well, God willing I will. Anyway, I was reading up about it, and discovered something called the bloggie awards.

Does what you do define you? Does what I do define who I am? Why should it? Why should it not? Can we really expect the UPS guy to never turn left when he’s driving his personal car?

What makes a man? Is it the clothes? Is it the job? Is it how much money they have? Is it how good a father they are? How good a protector they are? How good a provider? How good a partner they are? What they drive? How mature they are? What is it? I think that an important factor is to consider is the judge. The person doing the judging has to have some kind of footing before they can [...]

I’m not sure if I should be offended by this billboard or not. It’s a poster that was put up in New Zealand, by a church, that is looking to challenge how people think of the virgin Mary, the annunciation and the birth of Jesus Christ. On a certain level, I think it’s a funny poster because I agree that God would be a hard act to follow. On the other hand, I think it’s offensive because I feel like [...]

This is a pretty cool video. For the record, a flash mob is essentially a group of people that show up suddenly someplace and start dancing or doing something else. I think this particular flashmob is great since it’s in a casino. Here’s another flash mob, but this one is an MC Hammer one. I’d rank it higher than the first one, but it was produced by A&E to promote a TV show: I love the look on people’s faces [...]

OK, so I missed yesterday’s self imposed deadline to post. I’m on a “post every day” diet for the month of November, so I may have to post twice later on this week to make up for the missed post, but that’s not important right now. Here’s the problem. I want to get more speaking gigs, but I don’t know where to start. I have had a modicum of success with just reaching out to people on Twitter and my [...]

Yahoo used to be the 800lb gorilla of search. Now, it’s relegated to also ran status and is desperately trying to stay relevant in search. How and why did this former behemoth fail? I feel that the main reason they failed in their primary area of business is because they lacked focus. At one point, the folks at Yahoo! wanted to become a media empire, so they went on a spending spree and bought up web properties that would help [...]

This is a really good presentation by Tim Ferris about blogging and about how he blogs. If you don’t know who Tim Ferris is, he’s the guy that wrote the book “4 Hour Work Week” among other things. There are some really good nuggets in here which I’ll share with you here courtesy of Alex: POSTING TIMES: Tim’s ideal posting times: 7am PST and 6pm EST BEST DAYS TO POST: Best days to post to engage discussion and get trackbacks: [...]

I used to be a big believer in multi-tasking. I used to believe that I could handle several tasks at once, until I realized that I was spending more time trying to figure out what I was doing than I was actually doing what I was supposed to be doing. Here are 7 reasons why I believe that multitasking is a myth and a waste of time. You can easily get confused from having “too many balls in the air.” [...]

Tell you what, I wish I could dance like these people. My GF and I like to go out Salsa dancing, but I’m not match for her dance skillz. I don’t really want the hair that the first guy has, but I do want his dancing mojo. Just because I seem to be in a dancing kind of mood, here’s another video of some dancing peeps: Something that jumps out at me, is that these people are all about the [...]