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An Open Letter to Pickles
[Editor's Note: I wrote this a while ago and submitted it to McSweeney's Internet Tendency's "Open Letters to People or Entities Who are Unlikely to Respond." Unfortunately, the McSweeney' ...
December 19, 2004 |
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Anyone Looking for a New Job?
Just noticed that Renegade Marketing (the company I now work for) is looking for an "Office Manager/Recruiter." They have posted the opening ...
December 17, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Barebones Mac on Its Way?
I've been talking about the potential for Apple to get Windows users to make the big switch for a while. A recent rumor makes it seem as though Apple is giving this some serious thought (and how could it not?). According to <a href="http://www.thinks ...
December 29, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Best Man Decathalon
My good friend Jimmy has gotten engaged (congratulations) and he needs to pick a best man. He's narrowed down his groomsmen to three fine choices (with yours truly included), however, he can't decide who should be his best man. As a possible solution ...
December 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 24 COMMENTS
Best Marketing Practices
I'm reading The Cluetrain Manifesto at the moment and I ran into something I just had to po ...
December 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Blog Stress
This site has brought me a fair amount of stress over the last 24 hours. Following the advice of Six Apart, I installed Movable Type 3.14. The upgrade was not a very ...
December 22, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Blogging No Longer a Trend
I have a rule in life and that is: once the New York Times covers a trend it is officially no longer a trend. The newspaper rarely takes chances and once its written about something it's officially at least six months old and is on the verge of tippi ...
December 12, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Cell Phone Do-Not-Call Not True
I've been getting emails lately about the need to register cell phone numbers on the national do-not-call list. Well, folks, it turns out that this, like most email forwards, are simply not true. I'll explain in a bit, but here's what the forward loo ...
December 10, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Coming Soon: Top Albums of the Year (and my top 50 of 2003)
Well, it's about that time of year again. That's the time when I prove that I spend entirely too much of my time listening to music and come up with my top 50 albums of the year. For those interested in best of lists, make sure to go check out <a hre ...
December 2, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Computer Crash
Expect to see fewer entries this week. Smack in the middle of my unemployment, my computer has decided to crash. This works perfectly in my laptop's six month plan, where it refuses to work for more than six months at a time without a reformatting. I ...
December 7, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Educational Change
By Barbara Rubin Brier Editor's Note: My mother was inspired to write something and asked me to post it on my site. I am doing this for her for two reasons: first, because she's my mother and second, because I think it's very interesting. Hope ...
December 5, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
Election Reflections
It's been a while since I discussed politics, but Rolling Stone has posted an article titled <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6635609?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1&rnd=11022674 ...
December 8, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
SOCIAL NETWORKING | Noah Brier
Facebook Questions (Round Two)
This morning there was an article in The Washington Post about the Facebook. The article was titled <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30002-200 ...
December 28, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Long Comments on the Long Tail
I left a fairly lengthy comment on Renee Blodgett's post titled "Internet Archiving & Engaging in Knowledge". Go read the whole entry, ...
December 17, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
New Job
Today was my first day at my new job. I am now a writer at Renegade Marketing Group (go check out the website, it's very cool). It was exciting to be doing something with myself again, after my month vac ...
December 13, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
New Years Best Wishes
Just wanted to wish all my family, friends and readers a happy and healthy New Year (that includes Jean-Pierre and Jean, who I found out have been keeping up with me here). Thanks to everyone for everything (I know it's general, but hey). For those n ...
December 31, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Nobody Wants an iPod Photo
I suspected something like this would happen when the iPod photo came out. Today I read on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that <a href="http://apple.weblogsinc.com/ ...
December 20, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Pet Peeve: Buy a Domain Name!
I was reading Wired this morning and I ran across a promotion between HBO Video and F.Y.E. The link to the promotion was deep within the Conde Nast site (http://www.conden ...
December 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Pulp Xmas Video Mashup
This was a little too good not to post. Check out this video mashup of Pulp Fiction and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer made by some people I know, it's great. Even <a href="http://www.boin ...
December 23, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Request for My RSS Readers
For those of you that read my web page via RSS and actually, anyone who knows what RSS is, I have two questions. 1. Would you mind if I switched my feed to Feedburner? Would it bug you to have to change the ...
December 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
SOCIAL NETWORKING | Noah Brier
Still Here
COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO USE THEFACEBOOK SHOULD READ THIS ENTRY!! (everyone else should too). As you guys may or may not have guessed, I've been pretty busy lately. The whole starting a new job thing has taken up most of my time. I apolo ...
December 15, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
The Non-Apple Apple Ad
About a week ago I ran across this iPod Mini ad. It's a great looking commercial and definitely worth checking out, but that's not the whole story. Actually, the whole story is that this w ...
December 16, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS
Trendspotting: Fake Holidays
Has anyone noticed a new trend in The New York Times in the last few weeks? It seems that the Times has taken quite a liking to made up holidays/traditions. First it was last week's article <a href="http://www.nyt ...
December 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 1 COMMENTS
Unemployed Friday Thoughts
In my reading today I ran across a few distinct, but interesting quotes that I had to post. The first is from Joe Gillespie at Web Page Design for Designers. In his <a href="http://www.wpdfd.com/editorial/wpd1204new ...
December 3, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Wiki Publishing
Lawrence Lessig is really cool. For those that don't know him, he's a Stanford law professor, author and the man behind Creative Commons (the new copyright system wi ...
December 27, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS
del.icio.us Thoughts
In Mitch Wagner's new article on del.icio.us, titled "It's Delightful! It's del.icio.us!", he made the mistake of ending with t ...
December 21, 2004 | EMAIL | PRINT | 0 COMMENTS