A Motley Fool post about Twitter reminded me, of all things, of an ancient WSJ article about the popularity of guayabera shirts. I dimly recall that the article spent a long time discussing the comfort and business acceptability of the guayabera, but then closed with a punchline that went something like, “That’s all fine, but when the boss is looking around the conference table for someone to downsize, do you want to be the guy in the guayabera shirt?” My paraphrased version in relation to this Twitter headline was, “That’s all fine, but do you want to be the guy Twittering when the boss is deciding who gets a pink slip?” In fact, though, the article makes a few good points about potential business value in Twitter.
Nov 192008
The title of this post might sound like a Bill O’Reilly sound bite, but it’s not. As a long-time community guy I suppose I should have known what a “fisker” was before reading Reality Check by Guy Kawasaki. I didn’t. “Fisking” is responding to another individual’s email or forum post by quoting it extensively and responding to it line by line.