{"id":219,"date":"2005-05-12T14:36:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-12T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp\/?p=219"},"modified":"2005-05-12T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2005-05-12T21:36:07","slug":"forget-follow-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/forget-follow-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Forget “Follow The Sun”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Its much better to follow the fun<\/A>. That’s a RedMonk value. We want to have fun with our clients and work on fun projects with good smart people that we can have a laugh with. We don’t fire clients that don’t like fun, but i have to say we don’t pick up that many…<\/P>

This century everything is flat<\/A>; “Follow the Sun” is a given whatever your industry; its been commoditized. So let’s follow the fun. That’s where creativity and innovation are likely to be anyway. Follow the Sun is not a differentiator. Follow the Fun is. <\/P>

And on the subject of fun, i seem to have discovered another jaunty hat angle<\/A> for my collection.<\/P>

 \"Simon Simon Saint-Lauren<\/A><\/P>

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James Boyle<\/A> (I hope the Guardian doesn’t sue me; this fair use?)<\/P>

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  Tim Bray<\/A> (thanks very much to KK+<\/A>!!!). <\/P>

Oh yeah, its weird how things work out. You know how you asked what tagging could do? Well the flickr search engine was down when i went to hunt down this photo again. So how did i find you? Where did i look? Something i could do with tags that i couldnt do with old fashioned search<\/A>… timbray<\/a> technorati tags<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Its much better to follow the fun. That’s a RedMonk value. We want to have fun with our clients and work on fun projects with good smart people that we can have a laugh with. We don’t fire clients that don’t like fun, but i have to say we don’t pick up that many…This century<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wfjh-3x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}