LINKS FROM January 2005
Wired profile on Einstein a century after he made some of his biggest breakthroughs
A sassy online voice hip to all the latest teen buzz
San Francisco Chronicle profile on Anastasia Goodstein and YPulse.com
The New Social Etiquette: Friends Don't Let Friends Dial Drunk
Nice to see the New York Times finally paying attention to this underreported problem
A place for consumers to complain to companies
The iPod is a revolutionary device that transforms listeners into "cyborgs" through a process he calls "technotranscendence."
Tags: apple music posted culture ipod
Researchers Map The Sexual Network Of An Entire High School
When they looked at the picture they had it turned out it was a traditional hub and spokes network
Tags: sex networking research posted
How new software may help us think more effectively
Tags: software technology writing posted innovation nytimes brain
Wired Magazine: They've never met a padlock - or six-pin paracentric cylinder - they couldn't crack. Live, from the lock-picking championship of the world.
An amazing article from AM New York calling for boxing gloves for roosters that cockfight
TheFaceBook will host National Beirut Championship
Social netorking comes to life with ping pong balls and beer
Tags: alcohol fun socialnetworking posted
A list of all the different ways people around the world say cell phone
A very impressive collection of photos displayed impressively with flash in 3D
Tags: art design photography posted
A new editable search engine
Tags: socialsoftware search posted
Budweiser Wardrobe Malfunction Ad
If this is too riske for the Superbowl then how good can the commercials be?
Tags: funny video commercial posted
John Battelle talks about the new A9 Yellow Pages
Tags: search innovation posted
A9's new Yellow Pages includes pictures of the address in major metropolitan areas. Also allows you to browse the pictures in a way that looks like walking up the block.
Tags: search innovation posted
Passengers to Airlines: No Cell Phones
Recent survey reveals more people prefer to keep cabins phone-free.
The Guardian picks up on the viral Polo ad that VW is swearing it had nothing to do with
Henry Bekkering - The Remix (Movie)
Turns out white men can jump
Tags: sports
The sad story of Motley Crue's latest incarnation
Joe Trippi: What the next chairman of the Democratic Party has to do, and why I'm coming out for Simon Rosenberg.
How television killed the newspaper sports column.
Tags: sports newspapers writing posted
A Humble Old Label Ices Its Rivals
Smirnoff wins a New York Times vodka taste test against a bunch of fancy pants
A generation lost in its personal space
New technology is bringing to light philosopher Martin Heidegger's observation that technology is the art of arranging the world so that we don't have to experience it.
Tags: mobile culture posted technology conference
The Man in Front of the Curtain
Steve Martin thanks Johnny Carson
Some big players entering the blogosphere can be a sign that corporate blogging is getting close to tipping
Tags: corporateblogging posted
A few tips from Blog Business Summitt
Tags: posted corporateblogging
Zemeckis: Chairman of the Hoverboard
Snopes.com on the hoverboard in Back to the Future II
Tags: movies
Information Wants to be Liquid
A next generation web idea that makes each word a "hyperword"
Tags: internet posted networking
It's fast, secure, open source - and super popular. The hot new browser called Firefox is rocking the software world. (Watch your back, Bill Gates.)
Part of Safire's farewell, he lists his 12 rules of reading a column
Photographs of a little bear in the big world
Tags: photography fun posted
Obviously there was a serious marketing for a children's story about Marijuana
Pumping Elbow to Elbow? Must Be January
I've always found it amusing to watch the numbers balloon at the gym during certain times of year. Especially January.
Tags: fitness nytimes nyc posted
It is puzzling that if you add X (no exit strategy) to Y (Why are we there?) you get W²: George Bush's second inauguration.
Does Friendster have a viable business plan?
Tags: socialnetworking nytimes business posted friendster
10 Things We Learned About Blogs
Radio had its golden age in the 1930s. In the 1950s, it was television's turn. Historians may well date the golden age of the blog from 2004â€â€when Merriam-Webster.com's most searched-for definition was blog. How long can it last? Who knows? Here's what
A Gift From Above, Wrapped in White
Snow days, our Sabbath days, bring with them permission to do just that. Stop, take a walk in the woods, where the trees can whisper their secrets. And because no cars are speeding by and no loud thoughts come telling you that you've got to get somewhere
Tags: weather
Safire's reason for retirement: "When you're through changing, you're through."
Four tips for getting yourself out of a design jam.
Tags: design
A new survey by Bolt, a youth-oriented online content site, finds that 70% of 15 to 22 year-old Internet users accessed the Internet with a broadband connection during the fourth quarter of 2004, an 11% increase from Q3 2004.
Tags: posted
Media with Strongest Influence: Online or Off?
A new study by BIGresearch finds that Web-based media have a varying but generally smaller influence on the purchase of products than media like news inserts, TV and word of mouth.
Tags: research
Free Stuff, Discounts, Bargains in New York City
A brilliant way to get your cell phone returned should you ever lose it
Find bloggers by subway stop
Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age
Includes: Learning is a process of connecting specialized nodes or information sources
Tags: postmodernism posted education
Follow On No Follow: Will "Fully web-expressed writing" Suffer?
John Batelle considers the effects of nofollow
Tags: search blogs spam posted
New York Apartment Buyers Face Powerful Co-Op Boards
Highlighting some of the co-op board craziness
BusinessWeek cover story about how Linux operates
It's hard to figure out exactly what made me laugh about this, but I think it's just because penguins are naturally funny creatures
Tags: funny
By the Numbers: The U.S. After Four Years of Bush
33% national debt increase aint good
Tags: politics
We Will Become Silhouettes (Video)
New Postal Service video by the guy who directed Napolean Dynamite
What Jenna Bush was really thinking at the inaguration
Alf Commentary Episode One, 01.11.05
Flak Magazine does audio commentary for the ALF pilot
Tags: television funny
Someone was bound to make tshirts eventually
Aint no better bagel in the world
Turning New York into a webpage
You can "click" on any text in the city by SMS messaging it to an email address and getting back a reply with the predetermined response.
Tags: socialsoftware nyc
Ever expanding Wikipedia entry on the long tail
A legendary ad executive tells how he uses blogs and how companies can use them in their marketingâ€â€without being crushed.
Tags: corporateblogging
Put in a "from" address and a "to" address and it tells you the best subway route to take
Tags: nyc
Interchangable Jappy Chick
Tags: funny
Limited Edition East African Wenge Wood Box
Ever dream of a $350 box of chocolates?
David Brooks reviews Gladwell's new book. I agree with pretty much everything he has to say, especially that Blink leaves you wanting more.
Car morphs into robot, dances (Movie)
It's a very cold ad for a Citroen C4
Simple sharable to-do lists.
Tags: organization
Who puts Necco Wafers above Nerds?
Every "Top Ten Albums of 2004" List on the Planet
An aggregation of others' top ten albums lists
Tags: bestof2004 music
I won't say, "Make my logo bigger."
13 Rules for More Effective Advertising
Tags: marketing
Five items on which a sticker of Calvin has not, to my knowledge, peed
That's Calvin, as in Calvin and Hobbes
Tags: funny
Flash site that allows you to make over Mona Lisa with botox, surgery and the like
What exactly will the USPS deliver?
Tags: strange
My Top 50 list gets a shoutout from Largehearted Boy
The Top 40 Worst Albums of 2004
Awesome . . . simply awesome
Tags: music bestof2004
The Non-Expert: When in Manhattan...
A good and short guide to Manhattan that even lists Spring Lounge as the best afternoon bar
Tags: nyc
This is my list, with MP3s
Tags: mp3 bestof2004 music
A company with three percent market share makes the front page of The Times
Technorati brings us tag searching
Tags: tags blogs socialsoftware
Marketing people analyze the homegrown iPod mini ad
Top 100 "via" Sources for Waxy Links
Tags: system:unfiled
Apple's Tipping Point: Macs for the Masses
Great graphical representation of what Mac products are for whom
Tags: apple
The rise and rise of shuffle mode
What the whole shuffle thing really means
Tags: postmodernism music
At 21 you can drink, at 25 you can rent a car, but what happens after that? Here are some ideas
Tags: funny
Ever want a laptop bag that looks like it's really hold milk and fruit? Now you can have it
Tags: fashion
10 tips plus one bonus tip . . . . woohoo
Tags: blogs
What happens when your name is Russell Jones and you live in Brooklyn? People call you up thinking you're ODB
The Education of Elisabeth Eckleman: Pimps & Ho’s
When he vaguely asked her on a date, Elisabeth had to decide whether to bring hipster Wesley to her Pimps & Ho’s fraternity event or keep her two tentative worlds separate. You voted for her to invite Wesley to the party. Let’s see what happens…
Tags: writing
Someone commenting on my "Coming of Age" story
Tags: americandemographics mobile
Marketing wonk dinner in New York
Might be worth attending . . .
Someone made a WebJay playlist based on my top 50 albums of 2004
Tags: bestof2004 music
100 things we didn't know this time last year
An exhaustive list with lots of interesting tidbits
Ever wish you could keep spinning when you come to a stop on your Segway? . . . Now you can!
Tags: funny
Internal Blogging More In Focus
Blog Consultants Beware
Tags: corporateblogging
The Future Of The New York Times
Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. has his hands full: Weaker earnings. A changing media world. A scandal's aftermath. He also has an ambitious business plan
Tags: newspapers
FeedBurner posts their market share statistics
Tags: rss
David Galbraith offers up 16 things he thinks will happen this year
Tags: predictions 2005
KENNY MUHAMMAD AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC (Movie)
Awesome combo of beatboxing and orchestral music
Tags: music
Winners of the "I Look Like My Dog" Contest
Cesar dog food ran a contest to see who looks most like their dogs and then took their pictures
Find out which "best of" album is right for you based on your current mood
Tags: bestof2004 music
A list of all the songs that have been on the show
Tags: music television
The ten best song use in 2004 TV commercials
Tags: bestof2004 television
Show items with the same tag from both Flickr and del.icio.us
Tags: socialsoftware tags flickr
Another deal site
Tags: deals
Send SMS to anyone's phone with phonenumber@teleflip.com
Tags: mobile
How can you quickly define The Long Tail?
Tags: longtail
E-Media Tidbits reports on WestportNow
Tags: blogs journalism
Big news... Six Apart and LiveJournal!
Brad from LiveJournal announces the sale
Tags: socialsoftware blogs
Follow the show's return (without RSS or permalinks)
Tags: blogs television
They're the best insult money can buy.
Tags: shopping
The Cultural Divide Between LiveJournal and Six Apart
If the acquisition rumors are true what effect will it have on LJ?
Tags: socialsoftware blogs
They start with a single stolen file and pump out bootleg games and movies by the millions. Inside the pirate networks that are terrorizing the entertainment business.
Tags: piracy
How to make a money wallet
Tags: strange
Blog or Die - Table Of Contents
The initial TOC for Scoble's business blogging book
Tags: books corporateblogging
Ill-Fated Ideas Borne of a Hallmark Brainstorming Session.
I always wanted to send a "Gerbil Found in Heating Vent" sympathy card
Tags: funny
The Extravagance That Goes to Waist
Men are accessorizing with belts . . . who knew?
Tags: fashion
Conception of a Question: Who's Your Daddy?
The origins of the term "Who's your daddy?"
Tags: language
K5 Article on Wikipedia Anti-elitism
A response to an an article that complained that Wikipedia's anti-elitism would eventually sink the project
Tags: wiki
Jenny, are you there? (867-5309)
Some guy called every 867-5309 in America
Tags: funny
Reggie White used to thank God for helping him sack quarterbacks. But before his death, the football star confessed that sports trivialized faith and religion. Will his message be heard?
Behind the String Cheese Incident's music is a serious businessâ€â€built on an Internet strategy that is a big hit.
'05 Seen As Year Of 'Accountability,' 'Creativity,' And On-Demand Media
Some predictions for the 2005 media world
Pew Internet & American Life Project: Blogosphere
New Pew research on blogging
Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
How to help Wikipedia succeed
Five more slightly misleading revelations of federally-funded abstinence programs
Things the government wants you to know