Scott Kraft’s Neighborhood

I don't mean to come off all environmentally or anything bit still. Why can't trees have Christmas too?

• 06:06 よく寝た！ #
• 08:48 @u44e お金を払って二重にしている人もいるぐらいだから、そのままでいいのでは？w #
• 09:10 @sasurau 雨雲見ていると、あと10分もすれば東京はほぼ全域、雨が上がるっぽいですが、果たして気温が上がるかどうか。未明からずっと11度で張り付いてますしね #
• 09:34 @masakiishitani そうなんですよね。だからきっと @mikamika59 も見たらいいと思うんだけど、私が買ったのはブルーレイ版なんだよね…w #
• 09:45 @941 .mil会議室は、相手を制圧したい会議のとき専用ですか？ #
• 10:14 【いよいよ最終日】 Movable Type 5 （ユーザー無制限版）が、定価より2万1000円安い10万500円で購入できるのは今日限り！ j.mp/uOdjN #
• 10:22 @smashmedia あ、一昨日の日経MJね。また今日も一面なのかと思った #
• 10:25 @smashmedia ポスト入れっぱなしになりますよねーw。僕も日経BP時代から15年続けていた本紙、産業、流通の3紙購読ですが、毎月未読の3紙をただ捨て いるだけなので、とうとう購読を止めてしまいました #
• 10:28 @osamuh @smashmedia 僕も3連休で外に出たのは、最終日の晩ご飯だけだったなぁ。新聞とってたらポスト溢れてたろうなw #
• 10:40 【こちらも最終日】 Movable Type販売のアフィリエイト報酬額が2倍になるボーナスキャンペーンも今日限りです！ j.mp/lUOBb #
• 11:17 @hokayan なんか @fumi ちゃん、日焼けしてません？ #
• 11:30 @sasurau 日が射してきたので、\xE6\x9A \x96かくなりそうですね！ #
• 11:31 @kengo 再婚する話ですか？w #
• 11:38 @yuki0908 頑張れー＆お大事にー #
• 11:41 @mikamika59 東のエデンが、攻殻SAC好きには必見、という @masakiishitani のアドバイス。でも僕の持っているのはブルーレイ版 #
• 11:53 [TypePad] もういくつ寝ると...: こんにちは。TypePad 移行プロジェクトのエンジニアリングリードをしている吉... bit.ly/7IAzn1 #< /a>
• 12:16 ミシュランガイド東京2010、Twitter実況中継の舞台裏とソーシャルメディア（ブログ） #MiGuideTokyo bit.ly/5YLpgd #
• 12:42 Yahoo!ショッピングさん！ RT @yahoo_shopping: 面白かったのでシェアです：RT @nseki ミシュランガイド東京2010、Twitter実況中継の舞台裏とソーシャルメディア（ブログ） #MiGuideTokyo j.mp/71B27w #
• 14:28 乃木坂の路上で @tzmtk と遭遇 #
• 15:45 @Chichi 表参道にいたので、ヒロタのシュー（ショコラ）などを入手。30分後ぐらいに到着予定 #
• 16:17 @Chichi @mayumine 冷蔵庫にヒロタの袋があるので、適宜オフィスに向けてふるまってください！ #
• 18:16 @junnama 間に合いました！ #
• 20:11 佐川急便は、荷物ごとに設定しないといけない面倒臭さにもかかわらず、今回わざわざ追跡コードを入れて設定したにもかかわらず不在通知メールがこなくて再配達指示できず受け取れず。一方住所だけ登録しているヤマトからは不在通知メールが届いて再配達時刻を指示でき、いま受け取り #
• 21:02 @BuzzTum 東京都渋谷区上原1-25-11 #
• 21:16 @haruca 自宅警備員を引き離している自分は何なのよ、と思いつつ…w ま、今度は（初めて）仕事の話などもしてみようではないですか。ひつじは関係ないですよ #

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We're celebrating the beginning of the holidays. And trying to keep Sarah and Mike apart.

For one night anyway.

BlogHer contributing editor Alanna Kellogg has posted about making gravy this Thanksgiving, and asked for recipes. This finally motivated me to post my favorite gravy recipe...vegan of course...so I could link to it in the comments of Alanna's post.

• 04:07 起きた #
• 04:51 @kwmr うわ、早いですね！ #
• 04:58 MacOSのアップデート待ち。結構時間がかかるなぁ #
• 05:02 寝てるときも、いまアップデート待ちの間も、間断なくお腹がゴロゴロ鳴っている。晩ごはんはタイ料理だったけど、こんなになる理由はないはず。謎だなぁ #
• 05:09 @kwmr なるほど！ #
• 11:07 Movable Type 5 （ユーザー無制限版）が、定価より2万1000円安い10万500円で購入 できるのは、あと今日・明日の2日間限り！ j.mp/uOdjN #
• 17:23 Cerevoイベントのときに国内にいないので参加できず残念ですー &gt; @warenosyo #
• 18:07 @moko0226 連休の2日を寝続けて復調しました。タイムライン見ていて「あー、体調よければ参加したい」と思っていたのですが、やっぱり何はなくても丈夫な身体ですね！ #
• 18:14 @Chichi シュークリームで治る？ #
• 18:46 なんで.txtファイルを開いたらExcelが立ち上がるのだ、マイThunderbird\xE3 \x82\x88… #
• 20:20 @mayumine これ、明らかに勘違いRTが広がりそうな予感w #
• 20:41 @mayumine 今日の打ち合わせで、最初泣いているのかと思って焦ったよw #
• 20:47 雨降ってるー #
• 20:54 @mayumine 目がウルウルしてたw #
• 21:03 なぜか桧町公園を抜けるルートを、気まぐれで通ってみたら、ミッドタウンのイルミネーションがキレイだった件 #
• 21:19 @kawade 家についた途端に本降りになりました L:港区 #
• 21:22 RT @junnama: Movable Type 5をさらに強力に! - 次世代CMS Power CMS for MT 2 最新情報 bit.ly/90tQvJ #
• 21:23 @midorio 人間国宝（天然） #
• 21:30 21時過ぎなので、晩ご飯はスキップ。就寝3時間前には食べちゃダメって言うからねw #
• 21:32 連休前に入手した @rose_m の新刊パズルゲーム☆トレジャー2巻を読むヒマがない…。会社のライブラリ\xE8 \xA1\x8Cきになるのは、今週末かな… #
• 21:39 @midorio そっちか！突っ込むのはそっちなのか！ #
• 21:57 @sudacchi お、いい感じになってきてるね！ #
• 23:16 @kotoripiyopiyo @osamuh カナダ大使館と青山一丁目のやまやの間に、屋台（というかトラック）で魯肉飯の弁当出しているところあるよ。2か月ぐらい前にsekai cameraに登録した #

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Pasted interview from NMA.co.uk - front page interview with me.

Disruption through innovation is the philosophy of Richard Titus, head of digital at the Daily Mail , who has ambitious plans for new partnerships, hyperlocal sites and mobile


curriculum vitae
•    Name
Richard Titus
•    Title
CEO, Associated Northcliffe Digital
•    Age
41
•    Education
2001-02 Management development for entrepreneurs, Anderson School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles
•    Career
1993-94 Director of A&R and production, Moonshine Music
1994-96 Director of new media and theatrical line producer, Motion Picture Corporation of America
1996-98 Founder, president and CEO, Tag Media
1998-99 MD, Razorfish Los Angeles 1999-2001 VP of strategic investments and VP of strategic business development, Razorfish
2001-06 Co-founder and president, Plinyminor
2001-07 Vice-chairman, New Media Council; founding board member, Producers Guild of America
2002-04 Founder, president and
CEO, Schematic
2004-07 Co-founder, vice-chairman and president, Schematic
2005-06 Executive producer, Who Killed the Electric Car?
2007 Controller of user experience and design, BBC Future Media & Technology
2007-08 Board of directors, Your Truman Show
2008-09 Controller, future media, audio, music and mobile, BBC Future Media & Technology
2007-present Board of directors, Mobile Entertainment Forum
 

Richard Titus isn’t your standard digital head. He’s a film producer, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, a former VP of digital agency Razorfish and a committed environmentalist. Now CEO at Associated Northcliffe Digital (AND), reporting to Associated Newspapers group MD Kevin Beatty, Titus has impressive credentials and isn’t shy about his achievements. Six month into his new role, he claims to work out of love rather than necessity.

“I’m not very good when unemployed,” he admits. He took six months off after Razorfish during which he built a new house and played video games but became bored. “I love building things and effecting great change.”

Disruption through innovation: it’s a message he repeats throughout our interview. The term has been a key theme of his career and informs his strategy for AND.

AND is the digital consumer division of Daily Mail &; General Trust, operating the digital properties of Associated Newspapers and Northcliffe Media and running their classifieds sites. Mail Online, Metro and Loopylove are among its portfolio of more than 150 sites.

Titus came on board because he saw potential in the AND marketplaces, such as dating, car purchasing at Motors.co.uk and job-hunting via Jobsite. The AND strategy is to create content and services around some of a consumer’s most critical life stages. “These create real value for consumers,” he says, claiming that AND is first, second or third in each of these markets.

He has a strong track record of innovation. He started agencies Tag Media and Schematic, and had a variety of roles at the BBC after director of Future Media &amp; Technology Erik Huggers invited him on board in July 2007. As controller of user experience, Titus was instrumental in taking the BBC home page from “one of the worst to one of the market leaders”.

By the time he left the BBC, Titus was controller of audio, music and mobile for BBC Future & Media and had relaunched the Corporation’s mobile site to include more personalisation features (nma 12 March 2009).
One of the biggest areas of innovation for publishers is charging models. But while others, such as News International and Independent News &amp; Media, are investigating pay walls, AND’s focus is on ad funding using its ad network and setting up partnerships. This means finding opportunities for collaboration across the portfolio and finding new verticals. One such area is travel. “It’s a huge opportunity. If I want to book a vacation, it’s an inefficient market. Should we be in broad discount travel? The opportunities are endless.”

Very much closer to home, AND’s hyperlocal strategy, Local People, established before Titus joined, is one of the areas he’s most proud of. The publisher has launched 32 community sites in places which have populations of between 10,000 and 50,000 and no local paper, such as Falmouth and Bideford (nma 2 July 2009). The sites encourage the local community to chat with each other and write and publish their own stories on local issues.
“We’re seeing a phenomenal amount of user engagement,” says Titus. “It’s an opportunity to be game-changers, especially compared with our competitors, if we can capture local communities and provide opportunities for local businesses to engage and create trust.”

He gives the example of when he moved to London and wanted to find out where was the best butcher. “It would have been useful to have a local community site to help me find one nearby.” He says the hyperlocal strategy has been successful, basing this on the number of users, average engagement and repeat visits.

Another area key of AND’s strategy is partnerships. Its used-car site Motors.co.uk partnered with Bauer Media’s Parker’s, the car-buying advice site, in July to offer a selection of used cars. The digital unit has also signed a deal with Johnston Press to become the supplier of online recruitment across its sites, such as Beverley Guardian and Scarborough Evening News. Despite some of its most recent deals being with competitors, AND sees such partnerships as widening the reach of its digital portfolio. Titus says, “There’s nothing wrong with them, we should be partnering as much as building or buying.'

As well as partnerships, mobile is another platform he sees as crucial. “It’s my expectation that every one of my portfolio businesses will have a mobile manifestation by the end of the year.” He believes all AND publications should have some kind of mobile presence, adding this is also key to its hyperlocal strategy.

Display is an area AND has made strides in. While Titus is tight-lipped about the publisher’s foray into this space - which includes handling sales for all its online properties and third-party sites such as Hellomagazine.com (nma 3 July 2009) and remnant inventory across Independent.co.uk - he believes the network market is seriously undervalued.
“The challenge with networks is scale and technology. The UK average CPMs are a fraction of those in the US and even Slovakia, which doesn’t make sense,” says Titus.

He’s also not that impressed with behavioural targeting, arguing it hasn’t been exploited properly. “Why do I still see a ton of advertising not relevant to me with all my publicly available information? It’s inefficient.”
Looking to the future, the Californian is aiming for the business to start thinking of itself as both global and local. And, of course, the pioneer is launching a review of its environmental activities to make sure AND has a sustainable green focus.

I'm playing a video game! Doing research:). Btw: I suck pretty bad.

Ok friends, i have been a bad VOX'r and i know it.   So much has happened that i can't begin to catch you up in one post. The most important event since the last time i updated is the arrival of my nieces, Lucy and Vivian.  My sister, Jamie had her two beautiful little girls on October 16th at roughly 2pm.  The journey was a long and emotional one but nothing compares to the joy we all felt the day we first met these two precious babies. 

The proud parents have already set-up a website for their little darlings.  You can see pics and watch videos of the girls at www.vivianandlucy.com.   Joe is really good about updating the site so it's been fun to capture their growth even after only 5 weeks. 

This past weekend, Joe took video of the girls which makes me smile (and admittingly a little teary...i'm such a sap) every time i watch it.  Here is a video of VIvian who is turning out to be the spitting infant image of her adoring auntie Robin:

Lucy is Joe's clone - so stinking cute and SUCH a good baby. Lulu loves her schedule and so do mom and dad becuase predictability is the key to a parent's sanity i've learned, especially with twins. 
Here is a video of Lucy taken by Joe with cousin Tara's voice in the background:
I'm looking forward to spending the Thanksgiving holiday with the Green Bean baby girls, Jamie, Joe, cousin Corinna and Aunt Shelley who will be meeting the babies for the first time today. 

• 08:17 @haruca いや、言われてる相手によるんじゃない？w #
• 09:50 RT @memokami: 絶妙に @yamaji @kansai_takako が写ってる。 @nseki さんは背中がバッチリ。 realdgame.jp/v/event/index.php/002 #
• 10:43 vol.3は千葉（市川）、vol.4は堺（大阪）から出荷されたからの模様 RT @nseki: 東のエデンvol.3のブルーレイが届いたので見ました。同時に買ったのにvol.4は明日届く。Amazon謎 #
• 16:11 三連休で、やっと部屋の掃除や洗濯、洗い物が終わった。郵便物の整理が終わったので、机がかなり片付いたのも大\xE3 \x81\x8Dな成果！ #
• 17:45 洗濯乾燥機を即買いモードで有楽町ビックカメラに行ったが、何分たっても販売員の方が「ちょっとお待ち下さい」だったので諦める。自分が販売員なら、男ひとり客は指名買いの可能性が高そうと思うのだけど、本当のところはどうなんだろう… #
• 17:51 @shuiro よし、 @yanabo さんからのリプライを待とう #
• 17:55 結局、有楽町まで来て手ぶらは悲しいので、スタバに寄る。六本木にもあるけど、ささやかな意味付け行為w #
• 17:59 @yanabo いや、一日も早く欲しいので、ネットで買います。というか今の洗濯乾燥機もまだ3年ですが、あまりに故障するので買い換えるのです（いまは乾燥機のヒーターが壊れている） #
• 18:01 @neohawk その有楽町ビックカメラに洗濯乾燥機を買いに行って失意なう、なんです（過去ツイート参照） #
• 18:07 @yanabo そうそう。毎日使う物は、故障が多いと生活に支障が出ますからね #
• 18:17 ちなみに洗濯乾燥機の販売員ネタですが、自分以外はすべてカップル客でした。仮説としては、1)女性客の販売員確保能力が高い、 2)販売員がカップル客を成約率が高い客として認識、あたりかなぁ… #

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