Analytics guru …or just a Jerk!
As I walk cheerfully down 6th Avenue, on my way to the Yahoo! 18th street office this Saturday morning, I stop by a red light, well, first, because you are supposed to (I believe), but mostly because I am hand in hand with my two daughters. In this obviously selfish action by me, I slow down a chap behind me, who in all his wisdom, lets me know what a jerk I am! I’ll be honest with you – this is not the first time somebody on the streets of New York have let me know their feelings about my traffic maneuvering choices ;-)
This got me thinking about how we choose to label each other, and how that is coming through the recent launched twitter lists. So before assembling a posse and hunting down my new friend from JCPenny; I thought I would collect all the lists my twitter followers use for me. You can see the result of this in a tag cloud below (I used wordle.net to create it):
So it seems like, I might actually be less of a Jerk and more of an analytics person. Personally I am fond of the terms sexy and data nerd. Ha!. (Perhaps they are actually conflicting labels though.. hmm). The other cool thing is that my blog is supposed to be about Analytics, Media and Marketing. Close eh?
Have a great weekend.. I am off for a walk around Chelsea (with the same two girls and traffic standards).
Cheers :-)
/ Dennis (@dennismortensen)
November 7th, 2009 at 17:08
Hmmm… wondering if anyone even has a twitter list of jerks. This could be not the best method for self evaluation ;)
You definitely have some impressive listing there, though. I am fond of “digerati” and, wow!, “my personal heroes”. How cool is that?
November 7th, 2009 at 17:17
Dennis, you know quite well that in this situation, you’re supposed to cast your children into the midst of oncoming traffic in the interests of not inconveniencing your fellow pedestrians. What a jerk!
However, democracy has apparently decided that you are actually more of a sexy heroic web analyst, so I suppose we’ll all have to abide by that.
November 8th, 2009 at 3:58
JERK!
This post would not be complete without some jerk shouting jerk :)
November 8th, 2009 at 13:01
Jen;
It would be fun to follow 27 muppets and then categorize them as such! :-)
Emer;
I kid you not, the last time I took it a bit further, the right swing car, followed me for 3 blocks so he could tell me that HE owned that corner and I was a Jerk for walking the white (green) light without looking for cars..
Brian;
LOL! I’m surprised it took almost 24 hours before it reached the comment area.. he he
Cheers
d.
November 8th, 2009 at 20:40
Nice Dennis,
You know you’re in New York when you’ve experience the wrath of an angry New Yorker! Sounds like you’ve been lucky – nothing like getting on a packed L-train from Brooklyn and being yelled at by some angry woman for invading their personal space on a packed train. hmm.. I must also be a Jerk, or is it that Jerk Chicken is one of my favourite foods? Who knows!
Cheers, J
November 9th, 2009 at 9:34
James; ..Jerk chicken was on my list of favorites when we lived in Trinidad & Tobago as well (AND you could buy it without the insults.. ha ha).
Cheers
d.
November 10th, 2009 at 14:18
The labels data nerd and sexy are, in fact, two sides of the same coin. Not many people know this thou :o)
November 18th, 2009 at 15:10
Angry people and drivers in New York????? Noooooooo. :)
I recommend moving to the San Diego (Carlsbad) Yahoo! office. People are much more “laid back” in San Diego. :)
Matt Lillig
http://www.mattlillig.blogspot.com
November 18th, 2009 at 15:41
Hey Matt,
he he.. perhaps you are right. It’s time to back my shorts. :-)
Cheers
d.