Categorized | Miscellania

Tags : ,

Definition of Cool

Posted on 29 October 2008

One of my favorite business authors, David Meerman Scott, is running a contest on his blog in relation to his discussion of the book, The Cool Factor by Del Breckenfeld.  His little contest comes with a very cool prize, a guitar signed by Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top.

The goal is to define cool in two sentences or less. So here’s my shot at glory and a wicked cool guitar.

Cool is an intangible aesthetic tempered by eccentricity colored by indifference.

My list of cool looks something like this:

  • Miles Davis
  • Ray Ban Wayfarers
  • Jimmy Hendrix’ Star-Spangled Banner
  • James Dean’s red jacket
  • Big-Wave Rider Laird Hamilton
  • The 1961 Lincoln 4-Door Convertible

What’s cool to you?

No TweetBacks yet. (Be the first to Tweet this post)
http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/digg_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/reddit_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/stumbleupon_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/delicious_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blinklist_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/blogmarks_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/technorati_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/magnolia_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/google_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/facebook_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/sphinn_16.png http://socializedsoftware.com/wp-content/plugins/sociofluid/images/mixx_16.png

Technorati Tags: ,

Related posts:

  1. Marketing Pilgrim SEM Scholarship WinnersThis week Andy

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

This post was written by:

Mark - who has written 229 posts on Socialized Software.

I am an author, technologist, social media expert and open source fan.

Contact the author

5 Responses to “Definition of Cool”

  1. Mark, any chance you could fix your RSS feed so that it includes full text of your posts? Take a look at your most recent post on Planet TriLUG and notice how incoherent it is by leaving out the entire meat of your post. Thanks!

  2. Mark says:

    Tanner, I have changed my syndication to send the full post. It should be updated next time I post.

  3. Awesome! Thanks much.

  4. TravisV says:

    Old Cadillacs (http://www.gmphotostore.com/images/53218448_pr.jpg)
    Marble Floors
    Joe Montana
    Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns


Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.

About

Mark R. HinkleHello, my name is Mark Hinkle and I am technology enthusiast and executive for Zenoss Inc. the maker of the open source monitoring software, Zenoss Core. This is my personal blog and does not reflect the opinions of my employer. I am also on the advisory boards for open source collaboration software maker, MindTouch and SourceForge, the world's largest repository of open source software.  If you want to find out more you can read my bio

Affiliations

Tag Cloud