LINKS FROM September 2007
"Why waste your time staying informed when pretending to be informed is sooo much easier? Eric Ledgin gives you your weekly Talking Points."
Tags: funny video television news culture insight
5 differences between a NY ad conference and a SF web 2.0 conference
"Just a couple random observations from my first day at MIXX, which as a NYC advertising conference, is probably exactly the opposite from a SF web 2.0 conference."
Tags: advertising marketing culture nyc sanfrancisco web2.0 conferences
"List anonymous wikipedia edits from interesting organizations"
Tags: wikipedia
On Geico's ad icon shilling for some other brand
"Earlier this week a favored Murketing reader drew my attention a curious magazine ad from Weatherproof Garment Company. The print ad shows a caveman in a Weatherproof jacket."
Tags: marketing advertising television
Social Networking is a feature, not a destination
"As I think about the current Facebook craze and the notion of it as an all-encompassing platform, sucking in functionality from other sites across the board, I find myself skeptical."
Tags: socialnetworking longtail facebook
"When someone (anyone who updates in public) mentions "NYC," you'll get it on your device in real-time. From there you can send "whois username" to find out more about that person, or "follow username" to follow his or her updates."
Tags: twitter
QVC aims to own 3.8% of alphabet
"But this short post isn’t really about QVC, or the absurdity of owning a letter. It’s about the absurdity of owning just about anything."
Tags: marketing branding funny
My friends Kim and Adam are getting married, and in perfect geek fashion their wedding toppers are their Miis.
Tags: funny videogames food
Human Memory and the Outboard Brain
"My point is that the cyborg future is here. Almost without noticing it, we've outsourced important peripheral brain functions to the silicon around us."
Tags: brain memory trend technology
"Instead of personal points I will count how many times the content of the blog has been bookmarked in Del.icio.us, which I think shows how interesting the content produced in that blog actually is."
Tags: advertising blogs
Online Video Is Not Broadcast TV
"There are several good ways for advertisers to use online video that yield respectable ROAS and ROI. But, there is absolutely nothing about the financial reality of broadcast television that translates to online video."
Tags: video advertising economics media2.0
Online advertisers may gain from downturn
"The focus will be on advertising that can be measured for effectiveness, and online will gain share relative to television, newspapers or radio."
Tags: advertising internet economics trend
San Diego mayor backs same-sex marriage
"In a tearful explanation to the San Diego community, Republican mayor Jerry Sanders explains why he decided that he would support the gay marriage bill."
Tags: politics
The evolution of buttons on Yahoo!, Adobe and Apple
Tags: design trend internet icons
"This false notion that ringtones are something in and of themselves is an anachronism, an artifact dating back to the time when mobile phones existed in their own ecosystem, wholly separate from the PC or the Internet."
Tags: apple business copyright iphone mobile music
"Google's plan for world domination. Also why the iPod Classic sucks."
Tags: google internet mobile wifi wireless apple business
That's What She Twittered T-Shirt
"In the old days, people had to guess what their friends were doing every 5 minutes. How'd we ever get by?"
Not sure about the video, but it's a great song.
About jobs and networking. Includes the story of how my friend Michael Surtees ended up in New York City (which just happens to be because of me).
Tags: networking jobs business design
NxE's Fifty Most Influential Bloggers at Weekly Articles About Blogging
"These are the movers and shakers. When they speak, the blogging world listens. These are our Fifty Most Influential Bloggers, and if you don't know them, you need to."
"Music, a mode of creative expression consisting of sound and silence expressed through time, was given a 6.8 out of 10 rating in an review published Monday on Pitchfork Media, a well-known music-criticism website."
Tags: funny music journalism
"I’ve found it an odd phenomenon to feel relationships strengthening by simply reading status updates, constrained to 140 characters no less, over a period of time."
Tags: twitter community culture socialnetworking
My Stereo Thoughts On FaceBook
"But separates are more geeky. And people do get obsessive. And in hi-fi land, just like web land, some people enjoy the putting together of the system almost more than they enjoy playing it."
How Accurate is "Mad Men?" Let's Ask An Ad Veteran (My Father)
"In this first installment, he reflects on elitism in the advertising industry, drinking culture, how concepts and ideas really came to fruition, and the nature of agency-client interaction -- all themes right smack in the center center of AMC's Mad Men."
Tags: advertising television interviews history
"To sum it up, does blocking ads mean that the money streams on the Internet will dry out? I don’t think so, that would only happen if the amount of money to be distributed becomes smaller  and I don’t see any reason why this should happen."
Tags: advertising internet
"Introducing the Danger Squad Action Kickass Team! When you're in trouble and you'd rather call in a rogue group of vigilantes instead of the normal authorities, D.S.A.K.T. are your men." New series from Team Tiger Awesome.
Great list from New York Magazine.
Tags: food bestof2007 restaurant nyc
Unintended consequences of the smoking ban
"So it turns out that banning smoking in pubs has not so much encouraged smokers to quit but instead provided them with a decisive competitive reproductive advantage if they keep puffing away."
Tags: economics cigarettes culture law london
Why Passion Matters: #1 In The Series
"I’m more convinced everyday that passion is the ultimate competitive advantage in business."
"Feist performs 1234 on Letterman, August 27 2007. Also featuring members of Broken Social Scene, The New Pornographers, The National, Grizzly Bear, and Mates of State."
Adblock Plus: the nuclear plug-in
"Adblock Plus, the Firefox browser plug-in that erases advertisements from web pages, is a killer of a killer app - or at least it could be if it ever becomes widely popular."
Tags: firefox advertising extensions google microsoft
Physicist discovers Mary Jane/Peter Parker the strongest tie in the Marvel social network
"Superheroes have way more connections than villians -- which may help explain why they win so often. "Only heroes team up," Gleiser notes, "while villains do not.""
"It's over now. Your business model was a historical anomaly built on scarcity of a valuable resource and the willingness of a small group of network operators to not slit each other's throats and to collaborate in exploiting the content producers."
Tags: media apple advertising television
"An animated tribute to the internet people of the world, wherever you may be. Animated by Dan Meth, with music by Dan Meth and Micah Frank."
Tags: video animation funny internet
Google Keywords as the new battleground
Nokia takes on Apple in AdWords.
Tags: google advertising mobile
aaron epstein | sommelier | wine & spirits consultant
My friend Aaron is a wine consultant. This is his site.
Tags: wine
the future of facebook-it's time to get serious
"The problem is that it's easy to click and join and very hard to do something constructive. "
Tags: facebook socialnetworking
New website.
Tags: design inspiration typography
Apple Introduces New iPods - Second Take
"Apple is NOT preaching to the choir here, they're looking to get a whole new customer into the house of worship and that's exactly what's likely to happen this holiday season."
Tags: apple ipod iphone technology
My Kid Could Paint That (Trailer)
"In the span of only a few months, 4-year-old Marla Olmstead rocketed from total obscurity into international renown – and sold over $300,000 dollars worth of paintings. She was compared to Kandinsky and Pollock, and called "a budding Picasso.""
Tags: art movies documentary video
"SWFAddress is a small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications."
Tags: flash accessibility programming seo
Proper comparison points for Kanye West, Michael Jackson, 50 Cent, and Norman Mailer
"Meanwhile, who is really the new Michael Jackson? The iPhone of course."
Tags: music trend insight technology culture
Facebook Profiles Will Appear in Google Results Next Month
"Facebook is announcing Public Search Listings today, meaning profiles will be searchable through Facebook, and soon turn up on Google, Yahoo and MSN Search."
"This set contains Idea Maps collected by Jamie Nast, author of Idea Mapping"
Tags: visualization brainstorming
In praise of dubious trend stories
"In general, this kind of thing drives me crazy. But I’ve decided to stop complaining about it. Because I’ve had an epiphany. Bullshit trend stories can be a force for good."
"Discover new people on your Twitter block by navigating through this animated three dimensional visualization of who follows whom."
Tags: twitter visualization design
The Internet is Dead and Boring
"Some people have tried to make the point that Web 2.0 is proof that the Internet is evolving. Actually it is the exact opposite. Web 2.0 is proof that the Internet has stopped evolving and stabilized as a platform."