Lee-Sean rocking the crowd at Ignite NYC, showing that ’tis more than just s a gift to be simple, it’s an art.
Photography by O’Reilly Conferences
My friend Lee-Sean told me that the best way to get an increase of blog hits is to ride the coattails of more successful friends and colleagues—count on the track backs and google hits to drive new readership to your blog.
I find this rather amusing because guess whose getting some exiting press right now? I really haven’t primed you with many options, so I would be rather disappointed if you thought of anyone but Lee-Sean. Two weeks ago, Lee-Sean opened Ignite NYC with his manifesto for flat. It was the more matured and developed rendition of a pecha kucha presentation he gave for the ITP 30 gala. The message is sufficiently trendy to catch your attention and confrontational to get you talking about it. There is no question: we are under the influence, addicted to gradients, drop shadows, inner glows, and reflections, and Lee-Sean wants to put an end to it.
Lee-Sean announced in front of a crowd of techies and Web 2.0 guests, that it is cool to be flat. 3-D imagery has gone over the top with gratuitous gradients that have no meaning to the overall website. And you know what, it has people talking. Because whereever you stand on the topic, you have something to say. A moderate opinion wouldn’t generate half the buzz LS got when he denounced the Apple logo. “Heresy!” one might think, while composing her blog on her MacBook Pro, but genius might be the better answer.
So, kudos to Lee-Sean Hepnova for garnering the attention of:
NYConvergence
NextNY
Tangents and The Times
Technorati
Tweetmeme
Cast TV
It’s a small world when @YoungImpact is Tweeting about LS and then co-hosting my favorite startup weekend getaway.
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Haha! My ears are itching (or whatever that idiom is) here in AZ. How many times were you going to say my name? “Lee-Sean!” Google Bot, can you hear me?
Maybe Tims can help us out with this one, but I was thinking: If parasitism is good for SEO, and aggregation of content is good SEO and adds value; does adding value equal parasitism?
re: Apple: I’m kind of a fanboy too. I’m typing this on a MacBookPro and I have an iPhone, but c’mon Steve Jobs, lose the shiny space-age logo. I’m kind of partial to the old rainbow Apple logo myself.
It is an entertaining exercise. But, hey, I’ve already accomplished my new year’s goal for this year as far as being an attention whore.
But, as far as attribution goes, it’s interesting how some of the bloggers wrote “Lee Sean” as opposed to “Lee-Sean.”
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