November 2008 Archives // NoahBrier.com

ENTRIES FROM NOVEMBER 2008

Over the last few weeks you may have run across the story that Hitler only had one testicle. Anyway, Ron Rosenbaum, author of <a href=" ...

November 30, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 12 COMMENTS

POLITICS | Noah Brier

Hope

It's probably not a huge surprise that I'm pretty excited this morning. I don't know that I have a ton to add to the conversation, but I can't resist the opportunity to throw a few things into the commons. I spent a bit of time this morning ...

November 5, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 2 COMMENTS

RANDOM | Noah Brier

Linkolicious

Over the last few weeks I feel like I've been running into way more interesting stuff than I could post over in the sidenotes. So, I figured maybe it was time for one of those wonderful link drop posts ... To get things started, Google ...

November 13, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS

VIRAL | Noah Brier

Spreading Against Your Will

The "viral is a dumb name for media that spreads" is hardly a new conversation, but Faris summed it up quite nicely the other day, explaining that viruses spread withou ...

November 27, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 12 COMMENTS

INTERNET | Noah Brier

The Many Skins of Web Data

As I've said in the past, I really love making stuff on the internet as much for the thing that's created as watching and learning from the reactions to it. This was most certainly the case with My First Tweet ...

November 26, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS

MARKETING | Noah Brier

When Too Much Listening is a Bad Thing

This one's been germinating for awhile now. About a month ago I was having drinks with my friend Matt and he made a point I hadn't heard before about the election: "Sarah Palin's handlers let the chatter get to them." Basically what he was saying ...

November 17, 2008 | EMAIL | PRINT | 13 COMMENTS

MEDIA | Noah Brier

Where Has Good Reporting Gone?

Okay, so first off, this is not about politics, but rather about media. However, I need to use a political example to get the ball rolling. So, for those of you sick of this stuff, I'll be quick. ------ BEGIN POLITICAL TRANSMISSION ------</ ...