The Flack is Back
Some news from my favorite flack...
"On Wednesday of this week, I'm going to be showing up bright and early for the first day of my new job at Thornley Fallis. I can't wait to get on board with TF."
- Uninstalled, via Doc Searls
I first met Michael a few years back at a small blogger get together here in Toronto. That was before blogging was cool and sending out an invite to every blogger you knew to have beers with Doc at a pool hall didn't mean that 1000 people would show up. The same get together that I met AccordionGuy, Brent Ashley and a few others. We offered Joey a job later that week.
Congrats Michael, this sounds like a great gig for you.
"...the TF group of companies also includes a kick ass design studio"
- via Uninstalled
We're thinking about dropping some cake on a redesign of some of our properties over here at The Farm, so of course I clicked the link.
Oops.
This is so not kick ass.
Anybody that clicked that linked to find out what kick ass looks like nowadays and loaded the link in their aggie (like I did) got a real bad impression. This might have been kick ass in 2002, but not today. Degrade gracefully. Never show the wizard behind the curtains and all that...
Now I've got to remember to check them out in my regular browser after I write this. I wonder what the chances of that are.
Michael - go kick their ass about this and make sure they don't make the same mistake when they redesign your blog ;-)
See this post as it first appeared on Blogware.
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michaelo, November 3, 2006
First off, thanks for the wonderfully flattering words, Ross. Much appreciated. I'm starting to feel the pressure to live up to all these mighty expectations of the stuff I'm going to do here at TF - I've had so many wonderful messages and comments, my head is now officially too big to fit through the door.
Second: ouch. I'd heard that we had a bit of a Flash addiction in parts of the firm - didn't realise it was a bad enough problem to break an aggregator. That's sucky.
I'll ping the appropriate poobahs and figure out how we fix this. I'm sorry you had a less than "kick ass" first experience of 76design. They're way better than that. I promise.
michaelo, November 6, 2006
OK - here's the scoop. The 76design chaps tell me that they have a brand new site set to launch in a matter of days. As our in-house design shop, I guess they ended up at the bottom of the list for the rolling relaunches. They've recently overhauled the main TF site, plus all of the corporate blogs and our podcast site - their own site took a back seat.
The good news is that they were aware of the problem you saw, and they've fixed it for the new site. It should be up any day now.
Ross, November 6, 2006
Now *that* is kick-ass. Please send along a note when they've dropped their changes - I'd love to see what the new stuff looks like.
It sounds like your getting along at the new gig just fine :)
-ross