Or, at least, he did a good job selling me on linking to his blog. He was the VP of Sales and Marketing for a Vancouver Web development, design, and marketing firm, and he’s looking to get a job.

Will: don’t look for a job. Look for something you love. He has a good blog. If Jeremy Wright can sell a blog, well, then Will should blog to sell, right? Heheh!

Anyone else looking for a job? Post in my comments. You never know who’s watching.

CNBC has video of the Origami. Well, one of them. Channel 9 will have almost an hour with Origami’s architect, Otto Berkes. I hear I should be able to post that video at about 3 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday morning. We’ll have a MUCH more in depth look at Origami (there isn’t just one, by the way, CNBC has different one than Channel 9 will show off).

I watch how fast news spreads and the words that bloggers use to describe things. Ray’s speech has been spreading slowly in this week of Origami interest. But, look at the language:

Nathan Torkington, over on O’Reilly: …the session was so amazing I thought everyone should see it ASAP.

Dan Farber: …very cool. Now let’s see if the Community can make it happen…

Marc Canter: “I for one LOVE this idea!”

Folknology: “that’s how impressed we are.”

Jyri Engström: “Microsoft got itself one hell of a CTO when it acquired Ozzie’s Groove Networks last year.”

I agree! It’s so great seeing something from Microsoft getting praise on a Web initiative. Keep it up Ray!

Oh, and there’s more cool stuff from O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference over on Technorati — just search for the ETech06 tag.

Weird. In my comments whenever someone types an apostrophe they get a slash too. That’s a unique bug Matt.

Update: Matt just emailed me and said the bug should be fixed.

Danah Boyd wrote me last night and said she “vehemently disagrees” with my reporting that ugly design is behind MySpace’s success. Unlike me, she’s actually an expert in the field of social software and unlike me she’s done research. Translation: I’d listen to her. Her talk on Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace is one that everyone who cares about the topic should read. It is THE seminal work on MySpace so far. Heck, every parent should read it as well.

Ray Ozzie just showed an audience at O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology Conference a new idea: clipboard for the Web. Dave Winer has the details. Ray Ozzie’s blog has more. I’m interviewing Sanaz Ahari of the Live.com team in an hour. It’ll be interesting to see what she has to show me. Ross Rader likes it.

What do you think?

Walmart is starting to use bloggers, this New York Times article says.

Um, I don’t condone this kind of work and if I find out a Microsoft employee is doing it I’ll publicly point it out.

For the record, here’s my best practices: always attribute where you got something from. Even if it doesn’t make you look good.

Second, for companies thinking of getting in this space: why don’t you just blog? That’s the best way to get your point of view out there. Hidden agendas will be found out eventually (and there are plenty of them, particularly in comment sections — how do you know that anonymous commenter wasn’t paid by a competitor of mine? You don’t.)

Another way to look at it? Join, don’t use. Ask yourself: are you communicating or trying to manipulate others into communicating?

Be skeptical! Even of me. Although I’ll always tell you where I am getting freebies, getting paid, or getting my back scratched.

Update: Richard Edelman, who runs the PR firm that was involved here, talks about this on his blog and gives good suggestions for both bloggers and PR agencies.

Update 2, Here’s some more news on this topic.

NYkette: No, I don’t blog for Walmart.
Joanna Lipari: but is it ethical?
Glenn Reynolds has a ton of links and analysis of this (must read for marketers and PR folks).

I’m getting lots of emails wondering “what time will the Origami video be available?” I don’t yet know, sorry. I should know today sometime. But, that points out there’s lots of people who don’t yet use RSS News Aggregators (if you did, you wouldn’t care about what time something gets released cause you’d automatically have it the minute it was if you had an RSS aggregator). But, I know there’s lots of people who feel more comfortable with email than with RSS. So, here’s a solution. Use http://www.squeet.com/ - just enter the RSS feed you want to be warned about and it’ll email you every time that RSS feed is updated. I’ve been using it a few weeks and it works great.

Something fun to help me get over my addiction to Memeorandum.

UserFriendly is a fun comic. The other day he got some blog inspiration. Heheh.

Looking for some fun traygames? Games you play in the tray? Hmmm. Anyway, they have a blog, and you can download their games that you can play while you chat. Oh, yeah, their site and their games are all built in .NET. Even more fun!

Just launched today: Flagr. Share your favorite places. A mashup that’s fun to play with.