LINKS FROM November 2006
The indie music site that everyone loves to hate.
Tags: music journalism reviews blogs
"Looking back over a few of last month's headlines, it's clear that old media is making some dramatic strides in the adoption of Web 2.0 practices and content."
Tags: web2.0 media2.0 trend video
Fimiculous.com: "Despite the odds, this was a pretty good year in music. I've got 21 albums to prove it:"
Tags: bestof2006 music lists
Cool color theme online application from Adobe.
Some absolutely gorgeous photographs on different animals in the womb.
Tags: photography
Quick Tips on Corporate Blogging
From Organic and their blog Three Minds
Tags: blogs business tips management
"You’ve got to find what’s interesting in everything, you’ve got to be good at noticing things, you’ve got to be good at listening. If you find people (and things) interesting, they’ll find you interesting."
Tags: creativity lifehacks personality conversation tips business
"If a critic can get people to realize that the everyday architectural world of garages and malls and bad haunted house novels is worthy of architectural analysis . . . then maybe the trade journals can get some of their subscribers back."
Tags: architecture criticism journalism videogames
This Week's Non-Racists: Michael Richards and Clint Eastwood
"It’s this refusal to embrace our racism and deal with the deeper issues that allow racial injustice to continue generation after generation."
"Nothing sums up my political economic stance better than reducing it to two positions: pro-markets, and anti-profits."
Tags: economics
Ten Trends Transforming Marketing Measurements
"In digital networks, people often passively emit both anonymous and identifiable gestures, whether it’s visiting a Web site, programming a TiVo, commenting in a public discussion forum or a host of other activities."
Tags: measurement gestures attention marketing research
Riddling left, right and center.
"Yep, it's 'The Share Economy'. Can't really get smart, creative, social , innovative or otherwise without a whole lotta share."
Tags: economics web2.0 media2.0
Only the New York Times would print a story about how no one in New York goes out on Saturday nights . . .
Tags: nyc culture consumerism nytimes
'Beer goggles' effect explained
"Scientists believe they have worked out a formula to calculate how 'beer goggles' affect a drinker's vision."
Tags: alcohol mathematics culture funny research sex
"We are much more active in our content - we desire the ability to move beyond content and toward conversation. In our world today, content is a conduit for conversation."
Tags: education media2.0 community
One of the nicest Flash designs I've seen in a long time.
Tags: design inspiration portfolio
Burritos Freed From Sandwich Shackles
A Massachusetts denied an attempted injunction by a sandwich shop to stop a burrito shop from opening on its turf, in turn officially setting the record straight that a burrito is not a sandwich.
Anil Dash on Michael Richards: "Michael Richards lost his shit for the same reason white people always get mad when black people talk at the movies."
Tags: celebrity culture race movies
"Economics often presumes that people act rationally. Ulrike Malmendier knows better."
Tags: behavioraleconomics culture
"Who has it right, and who has it wrong? KEVIN HASSETT on the economics of managing an NFL football team."
Tags: economics sports football behavioraleconomics
"The Bush administration's crazy new HHS appointment." This is scary stuff, the new head of family planning doesn't believe in birth control and thinks pre-marital sex causes brain damage.
Is the SecondLife copybot a sign of things to come?
Tags: copyright culture secondlife ip
Put Any YouTube Video On Your iPod
Lots of tips and software to pull YouTube videos right off the site.
Tags: video youtube piracy tips software free
Oh the emails you'll get . . .
On management consulting: "The whole fraud is only possible because performance metrics in knowledge organizations are completely trivial to game. "
Tags: business consulting management productivity software
what i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens
"Email is not gone but it is dead in the sense that it is no longer a site of deep emotional passion. People still have accounts, just like they still have mailboxes. But their place for sociable communication is elsewhere."
Tags: email trend youth culture
The Reccomendation Market: Consumers must get some value
"The value that the consumer--the actual creator of this value--gets is...better recommendations . . . I think a company could go extremely far by shuffling some of that value back to the consumer."
Tags: attention recommendation search
1. Marketing should make the world better. 2. Millennials are about to change the world (more). 3. Brands are anthropomorphic.
Tags: marketing branding youth trend
Wallstrip Interview: Seth Goldstein
"Lindsay sits down with Seth Goldstein, one of the internet’s foremost thinkers on the concept of 'attention'"
Tags: attention interviews video
Reactionary Second Lifers block technological progress
"Congrats, residents of Second Life, in your own high-tech bleeding-edge way you’ve just proven yourself as reactionary as the RIAA or MPAA."
Tags: secondlife videogames ip law copyright
"Soundbombs are New-Media-Accessories. Each one a lowtech object for interactive transmission. An integrated soundmodul makes it possible to record any given sound and then activate it through a motiondetector."
Tags: streetart music hacks art
One of the women from the feminist scene explains how the whole thing went down.
two approaches to change management and brand architecture
"The specialty store could go deep. It could cultivate the brand carefully and well. But in a hyperactive marketplace, where consumer taste change often and shifts suddenly, the real challenge is remains current."
Tags: management fashion economics trend marketing
Top 10 Alternative Marketing Trends for 2007
"While marketers are constantly watching for alternative methods that can give them a competitive edge in over-crowded markets, Drew Neisser, CEO for Renegade Marketing explains the ones that will rise fastest in 2007."
Air Traffic as Seen by the FAA
"The following flight pattern visualizations are the result of experiments leading to the project Celestial Mechanics by Scott Hessels and Gabriel Dunne."
Tags: video airports travel emergence maps design visualization
Satellite images + words = Hours of fun
Tags: google photography search visualization fun
Would You Like Me To Seduce You?
"[These products] are being differentiated by the difference they make in our lives and the attitudinal difference it creates in the passionate zealots that participate in these new consumer cults."
Tags: design branding marketing identity consumerism
"It's about how brands today need to show some respect to consumers, think about building communities . . . and brand experiences not simply rely on interrupting people through broadcast advertising."
Tags: marketing advertising innovation trend technology
"So if you want to get into the venture capital business, become a connector. Find a job that lets you build your network."
Tags: networking venturecapital business tips
NHL inks groundbreaking deal with YouTube
"The NHL becomes the first US pro sports league to enter a contract for content and advertising with YouTube, a place where people can watch and share original videos worldwide of a league with players from 20 nations."
Tags: hockey sports video youtube
Great for mood boards.
Tags: flickr photography inspiration
"This is a pretty funny flash animation created by Clayborn Creative Consulting. It shows you flags from around the world, and comments that clients would say if the flags were presented."
Tags: design flags funny marketing
"Did the users of youTube give their loyalty (and eyeballs) to youTube or NBC during and after the whole "Lazy Sunday" fiasco? Do users of iTunes give their attention to ABC or iTunes (or their iPod) when they download the latest episode of "Lost?""
Tags: media2.0 ondemand television internet
Do you make these 10 mistakes in a conversation?
"Can you improve your conversation skills? Certainly."
Tags: communication relationships lifehacks networking conversation
"The following eight strategies encourage you to think productively, rather than reproductively, in order to arrive at solutions to problems."
Tags: thinking creativity business innovation brainstorming tips lists
"When a site takes on a life of its own, though, cliques need to be actively busted to make the site fresh, avoid groupthink, and welcome newcomers."
Messing With Your Brand's Logo Is No Longer A No-Go
"Though MTV has been known to constantly update its logos, branding experts were at a loss to remember the last time a marketer tweaked its logo in an ad."
Tags: branding logos design advertising trend
"In this model, there would be an evolving non-linear brand narrative. Different channels could be used to communicate different, self-contained elements of the brand narrative that build to create an larger brand world."
Tags: marketing planning advertising community media2.0
"interactive design, public installations, 3D software development from Melbourne, Australia"
Tags: design art australia portfolio inspiration
"Gabora explains what happens to our minds when we’re doing creative work."
Tags: brain creativity brainstorming
The Value of a New York Dollar
(And why it’s worth only 76.2 cents)
"Ok, so even this simplest commercial message is coded and symbolically purposeful."
Tags: marketing business food 5dollaridea
"An interview with the Likemind meet-up founders."
Tags: video interviews coffee likemind
"You only have one reputation, and it’s yours to ruin."
Tags: pr communication culture marketing
Idea Factories: Renegade Marketing Group
Story about Renegade (where I work) and how it's an idea factory.
Tags: marketing advertising business collaboration ideas
"The right thing is to build not a bubble, with it's binary in-or-out choice, but to build a gradient, with shades of resources you make available as people achieve success."
Tags: business google identity opensource startups
Scott Adams, illustrator of Dilbert, came down with something called Spasmodic Dysphonia. Basically you're brain forgets how to speak in normal context. No one had ever recovered. Until now . . .
Tags: brain language happiness psychology health bestarticlesof2006
"BE AN ANARCHIIVIIST Use Photographs, MOVING IMAGES, TEXTs, s o u n d s , music, PHILOsophies, PORNOgraphies, Artworks–the whole gamut of ‘Information’–and approach it like The Child In Kindergarten"
Transmedia planning & brand communities
"I really like the transmedia planning model, because I think it addresses those two weaknesses of media-neutral planning: ignoring that different media are better at different things, and that people are social beings."
Tags: advertising community planning marketing
Some intimate details on the Google YouTube Deal
Mark Cuban shares 'details' on the YouTube deal from an anonymous industry insider.
Tags: youtube business copyright google law video
Observations from the first few months of blogging.
The story of the downfall of Friendster.
Tags: friendster venturecapital business internet socialnetworking history nytimes