February 27, 2009

holiday cottages in austin etc

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[Aus­tin, Texas]
Dear Crazy, Deran­ged Fools,
For those who mis­sed it, here’s an extract from this week’s “Crazy, Deran­ged Fools” News­let­ter:

2. Holi­day Cot­tage? South Con­gress? What? Again, let me give you the skinny…
B.J., the groovy cat who owns Verde Camp here in Aus­tin [The cot­ta­ges are pain­ted light green, hence the name…], is let­ting me stay here for free, which is very kind of him. He’s a friend of a friend, he had a free cot­tage going, so what the hey, I thought in exchange for his kind­ness, maybe we could do a little “Mar­ke­ting 2.0″ expe­ri­ment together– you know how much I like trying these things out…
B.J. is a very cool cat. He wor­ked for Yahoo in the 1990’s as some sort of techie fellow, before lea­ving there and ope­ning an art gallery in San Fran­cisco soon after. Somehow he mana­ged to make to Aus­tin [I’m sure his now-wife pla­yed some part in the story]. He actually knows another SF-art-world friend of mine, Scott Beale of Laughing Squid . Small world. So he bought this piece of pro­perty in South Con­gress, thin­king he was buil­ding some sort of pri­vate home for him­self and his lovely wife– somehow it tur­ned out to be a guest cot­tage enter­prise thing. Crazy & Deran­ged & Foo­lish. Exactly.
So, my fellow CDF’s, here’s what you can do for me. Please go check out his web­site, and if you like what you see, please tell your friends about it, or if you REALLY like the look of it, please drop BJ an email and let him know that you chec­ked it out, and say that ol’ Hughie sent ya. Seriously, you’ll make his day. And it’ll be a very use­ful expe­ri­ment for me, to see what hap­pens etc. The Power of The Net­work etc. Please don’t hesi­tate, Thanks.
Ear­lier we were at din­ner at Guero’s with two other of his friends– he was pic­king my brains about mar­ke­ting, and I gave him my whole “Social Object” sch­piel … “How do we make Verde Camp a social object?” etc etc. Sadly, he’s already fully boo­ked for SXSW, but he’d be VERY inte­res­ted in hea­ring from you, nonethe­less.
I can sin­ce­rely attest– it’s a very sweet little setup he has going here– if tra­vels ever take you to Aus­tin, I hope you’ll check it out.
This is what “Mar­ke­ting 2.0″ is all about, Peo­ple… Cool friends of cool friends doing cool shit and sha­ring it with other cool folk, for fun and to make an honest living– at least, that’s what it means to me… Social Objects, Baby… Crazy, Deran­ged Foo­lish­ness at its finest, Baby… Yeah, Baby… Baby… Baby…

So far I am REALLY enjo­ying the News­let­ter for­mat. So far, it feels like I’m tal­king to peo­ple more directly [to peo­ple who actually want to hear from me, as oppo­sed to me being just one more blog­ger to skim over in one’s RSS feed etc]. Just one man’s opi­nion etc. I hope you’ll sign up.
Thanks Again for Your Love And Sup­port,
Yours in Crazy, Deran­ged Foo­lish­ness,
Hugh MacLeod

One Response to “holiday cottages in austin etc”

  1. Rebecca J says:
    March 2, 2009 at 4:54 am

    Exci­ting. I am loo­king for­ward to fin­ding out if the expe­ri­ment wor­ked :)