LINKS FROM December 2004

About.com - Megablog

People don't mention About as the largest blog portal around

Tags: corporateblogging


Ad-Rags'-Ad-Blogs-A-Review Pt 1

Exhaustive list/reviews of marketing blogs

Tags: corporateblogging marketing


Challenges To Blogging For Business

Thinking about corporate blogging in a real way

Tags: corporateblogging


Why iPod/iTunes won't be killed anytime soon

It's about "style" but it's also about cluetrain and "long tails"

Tags: apple longtail ipod


Biggest Brand Winner & Loser of 2004

iPod is the winner and Coca-Cola C2 is the loser

Tags: bestof2004 branding ipod


The 2004 Curbed Awards (Parts I & II)

All the best things to happen in Manhattan real estate during 2004

Tags: bestof2004 nyc


A del.icio.us study

Bookmark, Classify and Share: A mini-ethnography of social practices in a distributed classification community

Tags: del.icio.us education


Internet Demographics Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog

Internet demographics resources and sites

Tags: demographics


The BitTorrent Effect

Movie studios hate it. File-swappers love it. Bram Cohen's blazing-fast P2P software has turned the Internet into a universal TiVo. For free video-on-demand, just click here.

Tags: bittorrent


Albums coming out in 2005

A good list (with links) of some great music coming out in the first few months of the year

Tags: music


Why There's No Escaping the Blog

Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they've become a force business can't afford to ignore.

Tags: corporateblogging


Phishers can now display a fake web address in IE

Add this to the list of reasons to switch to Firefox

Tags: firefox microsoft


How not to buy happiness

Inconspicuous consumption is where real happiness comes from

Tags: happiness money


Sociable "robots" believe in 43 Things

Short Seattle Times piece on 43 Things

Tags: socialsoftware


Blog design in the age of RSS

How RSS is changing web design

Tags: design rss


Click Clique: Facebook's Online College Community

The Washington Post examines The Facebook

Tags: education socialsoftware


Marketing's Flip Side: The 'Determined Detractor'

Using the net to fight corporations

Tags: business nytimes


It Seemed Like a Scene From the Bible

Firsthand account from a swimmer during the tsunami

Tags: asia


Is there life after Suprnova?

Exeem and other alternatives

Tags: bittorrent


These Are the Things I Listened To This Year

Great best of list with lots of MP3s

Tags: bestof2004 mp3 music


Craigslist Costs Bay Area Newspapers $50M/Year

A new study examining the impact of Craigslist

Tags: newspapers research


Code version 2.0

Lessig has announced that he's going to wiki Code

Tags: books wiki


Add 150 Great Songs from 2004 to Your Playlist

A great Amazon.com "So You'd Like To . . . . "

Tags: bestof2004 music amazon


Reebok is naming it's new skate brand "dirty ghetto kids"

It's DBK for short, what the hell are they thinking?

Tags: marketing


Stereogum's Top Catorce Of 2004

Includes some MP3s

Tags: bestof2004 mp3 music


An Open Letter to My Turtle.

Exploring the ethical ramifications of pet ownership

Tags: funny


The Graphing Calculator Story

How two guys snuck into Apple to create software they believed in

Tags: apple education software


The Strongest Force? Any Parent Can Tell You

A physicist suggests that love may be the strongest force in the universe

Tags: love nytimes science


Pulp Xmas

Great mashup video of Pulp Fiction and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Tags: rmg video


A Look Ahead

John Battelle's talks about 17 things he thinks will occur in 2005

Tags: blogs innovation search


Bereaved Cat Owner Gets $50,000 Clone

This is kind of freaky

Tags: cats nytimes


The Year in Technology

List from the Washington Post puts blogs at number two

Tags: bestof2004 blogs technology


Technology and Happiness

Is it possible that technology, instead of liberating us, is holding us back?

Tags: culture technology


Christmas songs by Sufjan Stevens

Unreleased up to this point

Tags: mp3 music


Why Advertising, Marketing and PR Pros Should Blog (Part Three)

A three part series

Tags: blogs marketing pr


Why Advertising, Marketing and PR Pros Should Blog (Part Two)

A three part series

Tags: blogs marketing pr


Why Advertising, Marketing and PR Pros Should Blog (Part One)

A three part series

Tags: blogs marketing pr


Advertising: Truth or Absolute

Is there any truth left in marketing?

Tags: marketing


Self-confidence

The picture says it all

Tags: cats dogs flickr


The Best Links 2004

Kottke goes through some of his favorite links of the year

Tags: bestof2004


iPods get people laid and can improve their memories, too!

And that's why college students love them

Tags: apple socialsoftware ipod


40 things

A good way to wrap up the year, I think I'll give it a try

Tags: yearend 2004


Blogs of the year

The 30 or so best blogs of 2004

Tags: bestof2004 blogs


Mark Pesce on Bittorrent

A manifesto of sorts

Tags: bittorrent


movabletype.org : Support Forum

Tags: blogs movabletype


Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality

Clay Shirky on the power curve of weblogs

Tags: blogs


stephen duncombe

Home page for NYU professor

Tags: education nyu


2005 Predictions - The Coming Year of Hyperfragmentation

MediaPost makes some predictions for the media business in 2005

Tags: business media


Today He Is a Dog; Actually, He Always Was

New York Times covers a dog's Bark Mitzvah

Tags: dogs funny nytimes


Turn Your Customers into Raving Fans

If your customers take the initiative to talk about you then you're in good shape

Tags: business


It's delightful! It's del.icio.us!

More del.icio.us lovefest

Tags: del.icio.us


The Accidental Guru

Malcolm Gladwell, says one fan, is "just a thinker." But what a thinker. His provocative ideas are taking the business world by storm. So who is this guy, and what can he teach you about business?

Tags: books business


frontline: the persuaders

You can watch the entire 90 minute PBS special online

Tags: marketing television


Fooey to the World: Festivus Is Come

NYTimes on the true history of Festivus

Tags: funny nytimes television


Who Will Help Businesses Blog?

Things companies need to think about if they're considering getting into blogging

Tags: corporateblogging


purevolumeâ„¢

Music site with lots of unsigned artists and MP3 downloads

Tags: mp3 music


Vodafone Future site

Awesome flash-based site where Vodafone looks at the future

Tags: design mobile


The Top 10 Albums of 2004

This edition comes from The Morning News

Tags: bestof2004 music


The Year in Swag

The Onion A.V. club looks at the years best promotional swag

Tags: bestof2004 funny


Bi-torrent

Your Torrents Site.

Tags: bittorrent


RSS Reader Market Share

Analysis of what aggregators have the best marketshare

Tags: rss


Scoble talks about iPod marketing

They have made music a movement

Tags: apple marketing ipod


How I appeared on "Jeopardy!"

or . . . "Alex Trebek is a scumbag"

Tags: television


Buzz Marketing with Blogs

The companion site to the book Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies . . . what have we come to?

Tags: corporateblogging


Blogs 4 Xmas

Give someone the gift of blogs this Christmas

Tags: blogs


Born Suckers - The greatest Wall Street danger of all: you

Some basics of behavioral finance

Tags: finance


ALLOFMP3.

Cheap Russian music downloads (english version)

Tags: mp3


Your Online Paperboy

How Really Simple Syndication delivers just the Web sites you want

Tags: rss


Business Blog Case Study: Stonyfield Farm

Some questions for Stonyfield Farm on their blogs

Tags: corporateblogging food


Clone Covers 2004

Covers of Time and Newsweek are amazingly similar amazingly often

Tags: magazines


Twice the Annoyance, but a Tradition Emerges

Chrismakkuh hits the OC again and The New York Times is right there to document it

Tags: nytimes television


Amazon: Giving Away the Store

How the Amazon API is transforming its business

Tags: business innovation amazon


I was fired for blogging

Delta Airlines fired her for blogging

Tags: blogs


Will the Real Michael Moore Ever Re-emerge?

An open letter from Ralph Nader to Michael Moore

Tags: movies politics


Home-Brew IPod Ad Opens Eyes

George Masters made an iPod mini ad that could compete with almost anything on TV

Tags: apple marketing ipod


The Engadget Interview: John MacFarlane, CEO of Sonos, Inc

Sonos makes a very cool home wireless music system

Tags: music technology wireless


The Rebel Sell

If we all hate consumerism, how come we can’t stop shopping?

Tags: consumerism


Turn an Acura into a Ferrari

Bizarre, but true, these guys took an NSX and made it look like a Ferarri

Tags: cars modifications


Bright Ideas for Boosting Innovation

A prominent group has lots of advice on how America can renew its focus on R&D and science education to keep ahead in this global race

Tags: innovation


Checking it twice

Salon's top 10 albums of the year and top 25 legal downloads

Tags: bestof2004 mp3 music


Homer Simpson uses tabbed browsing

Even Homer's not stupid enough to use Internet Explorer

Tags: funny television


Year in Focus: 2004

Getty Images shows off a year worth of pictures

Tags: bestof2004 photography


Guide to Determine If You Are in a Jerry Bruckheimer Movie.

My favorite is "you are Nicholas Cage"

Tags: funny movies


100 oldest dot com domains

Symbolics.com was the first registered domain name

Tags: internet


Web Design in 2005

What's in store for web design next year?

Tags: design


Blockbuster dropping late fees as of Jan. 1

Blockbuster Inc. announced Tuesday it is abolishing late fees on all its video tapes, DVDs and video games as of Jan. 1.

Tags: business movies


Buzz-Informed Predictions for 2005

Pete Blackshaw makes a few marketing predictions for 2005

Tags: marketing


The Gadget Gap

Why does all the cool stuff come out in Asia first?

Tags: gadgets technology


Give Me Centrism or Give Me Death!

The ten most accurately rated artists in rock history

Tags: music


The Best Way to Skip a Stone

Useless knowledge brought to you by the New York Times

Tags: nytimes science


1664

Limited edition Kronenburg cans and bottles

Tags: design food


ComeClean.com

New site by the people who brought you Subservient Chicken

Tags: marketing


EA in exclusive NFL games deal

Electronic Arts, the world's biggest video games firm, has signed exclusive agreements with the National Football League and the NFL players' union.

Tags: sports videogames


Students shun search for information offline

Go to Google, search and scroll results, click and copy.

Tags: education search google


NME 2004

Best of 2004 from NME

Tags: bestof2004 music


Insound Top 100 of 2004

More best of fun, this time it's indie music best sellers

Tags: bestof2004 music


Rexblog library of accidental blog books

A look at books that can be applied to blogging

Tags: blogs books


Favorite Things of 2004: Part 1

Wooster asks a bunch of artists what their favorie things of 2004 were

Tags: art bestof2004


The Blogo Ad

Blogs for marketing purposes make the New York Times A to Z list

Tags: corporateblogging nytimes


Google Suggest

As you type, Google will offer suggestions.

Tags: google innovation search


Newspapers with RSS: A List

Fairly exhaustive list of newspapers that use RSS

Tags: newspapers rss


The 6 Myths Of Creativity

A new study will change how you generate ideas and decide who's really creative in your company.

Tags: business creativity


SURPRISE ROCKS DISNEY TRIAL

Woody Allen writes what Mickey would say on the witness stand

Tags: funny


Sony knows Jack! Hi Jack.

Conversation between a journalist and a Sony PR person about the Kottke situation

Tags: system:unfiled


Onion A.V. Club: Best of 2004

Tags: bestof2004


Why Nerds are Unpopular

If you're too cool for school, you're probably not very smart. Some of us would rather build rockets than friendships.

Tags: culture


Top 100 Wines 2004

Who knew you could have a best wines of the year list?

Tags: bestof2004 food


In 2005 blogs will be . . .

PRWeek poll

Tags: blogs


Harvard Sucks

A bunch of Yale students got Harvard to hold up signs that spelled "We Suck"

Tags: education funny sports


The Aftermath

Jon Stewart, Al Franken and Tom Wolfe reflect on the election

Tags: politics


From Cell Phone to Sunflower

Scientists said on Monday they have come up with a cell phone cover that will grow into a sunflower when thrown away.

Tags: mobile science


It's not easy being cheesy

Cheesiest lines in movie history

Tags: movies


Windows XP Crashed? Here's Help

Tags: crash


Forgot the Administrator's Password?

Tags: crash


The Hidden (in Plain Sight) Persuaders

Buzz is reshaping marketing

Tags: marketing nytimes


Del.icio.us Best of 2004

Use the del.icio.us tag to keep track of best of lists

Tags: bestof2004 del.icio.us


New Book Born: The Red Couch

Scoble is going to write a book about corporate blogging on a blog

Tags: books corporateblogging


Daddy's Other Options

Go Daddy's alternatives to spending all that money on a Super Bowl ad

Tags: marketing sports


Top 50 albums of the new millennium

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot lands the number one spot

Tags: music


2004 Playlist

GQ picks the ten best albums of 2004, from Kanye West to Loretta Lynn.

Tags: bestof2004 music


Matos '04: ALBUMS

Top 100 Albums of 2004

Tags: bestof2004 music


Young Koreans Abandon Email

New Forms of Online Communication Spell End of Email Era in Korea

Tags: asia mobile trend


It's Karate, Kid the Musical - Honor, Friendship, Fisting

IT'S KARATE, KID! The Musical is an outrageous and unconventional riff on the beloved ’80s film.

Tags: funny music theatre


Pitchfork accidently posted its ad rates

They've taken it down, but here are the numbers

Tags: music


NBR 2004 Film Awards

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures releases its 2004 awards

Tags: bestof2004 movies


The Media Company I Want to Work For-- Not Someday, But Now

"Time for someone to do it, to make the case for a new way of doing journalism, to stop talking about change in decades and start thinking about change in months and days. To stop complaining about the way things are, and the way things don't work, and to

Tags: journalism


Drug trafficking

The cheapness of illicit drugs isn't just a sign of police failure. It is also evidence that the drugs business has got more competitive

Tags: drugs economics


S'mores Nativity Scene

Yum

Tags: food religion


Kiduage

Reading William Safire write "dropping the kids off at the pool" nearly brought a tear to my eye

Tags: language nytimes


MSN Spaces: seven dirty blogs

Apparently MSN is censoring their blog titles

Tags: blogs


I Know You Are But What Am ISP?

NetZero taunts AOL with copycat ads.

Tags: marketing


Bad Information

How to run a corporate blog correctly, via the Maytag people

Tags: corporateblogging


You Can Blog, but You Can't Hide

Should bloggers have the same rights as journalists?

Tags: blogs journalism law


Stop the Web, I Want to Get Off

Joe Gillespie tells his story of being an early web designer

Tags: design


Target is cool with rock 'n' roll, but not sex and drugs

When Target struck a deal for Amazon.com to help run its Internet store, search results that turned up listings for books and videos about sex and drugs weren't exactly what the retailing giant had in mind.

Tags: business drugs amazon


LiveJournal Statistics

67 percent of users are female

Tags: blogs research


Revealed: The Secrets of the Le Parker Meridian

Secret burger place in Midtown

Tags: food nyc


'Blog' No. 1 word of the year

A four-letter term that came to symbolize the difference between old and new media during this year's presidential campaign tops U.S. dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster's list of the 10 words of the year.

Tags: blogs language


2004's Best Albums or Davey Goes To Eleven

From LargeHeartedBoy

Tags: bestof2004 music


Celebrities Tell Their Prince Stories

Some of his most famous fans turn to mush around this maestro of funk. Hear tales of what it's like to see the legend live.

Tags: music


They're totally cereal-ous

All-cereal restaurant opens in Philly

Tags: food funny


An Open Letter To Porn

From Lifetime Porn Watcher #10,495,102,867

Tags: funny sex


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