December 2008
137 posts
Mother's Ruin Punch Recipe
Happy New Years!
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3/4 cup chilled club soda
1 1/2 cups gin
1 1/2 cups fresh grapefruit juice, plus 3 thinly sliced grapefruit wheels, for garnish
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
3/4 cup sweet vermouth (Blanco)
2 1/4 cups chilled Champagne or sparkling wine
Ice
Jonah Lehrer: Measures of innovation were directly... →
The equations imply that a city without concentrated human contact is destined to stall and wither, since it won’t be able to innovate at the necessary rate. Urban growth without urban density is…
Obama is a Vlogger →
Plenty has been said about how neat it is that our new President Barack Obama (Yay!) is posting his weekly radio addresses as videos on Youtube. But, think about it for a…
16 Examples of Huge Brands Using Twitter for... →
All Twitter benefits and (potential) spheres of usage are yet to be explored. However it is great to see some of huge companies already taking advantage of the tool.
Are You Wasting Your Relationships? →
This morning I discovered these two pearls of wisdom: “Inspiration may get us started, but it never keeps us going. And that’s where motivation works.” …It’s a fantastically interesting way to…
Blogs I'm Glad to Have Discovered in 2008 →
This is the second year that I’ve put together this best-of list. It’s just as much fun this year as it was last year; and it’s a great reminder of how vast and awesome the blogosphere can be. In…
Best of Tumblr Fridays! →
(Sorry for the delay. I hope you all enjoyed the holiday.) Here are the highlights from the past week on my Tumblr blog. Eartha Kitt, we’ll miss you. …
Hee-Haw Marketing: Inspiration vs. Motivation →
“Inspiration may get us started, but it never keeps us going. And that’s where motivation works. And motivation doesn’t come in a bottle. Motivation is, scientifically speaking, a series of small…
PART 1: 50 Youth Marketing Trends for 2009 by... →
Part 1 of series on Insights, trends and quotes by author and co-founder of mobileYouth - a global research project that aims to first understand youth and only then how technology fits into their…
Are You Wasting Your Relationships? →
This morning I discovered these two pearls of wisdom: “Inspiration may get us started, but it never keeps us going. And that’s where motivation works.” …It’s a fantastically interesting way to…
Trend Central - Social Networking Ranking →
Google reportedly has a patent pending on a technology that will be able to rank the most influential people on social networking sites. Data tracked would include how frequently people post things…
Blogs I'm Glad to Have Discovered in 2008 →
This is the second year that I’ve put together this best-of list. It’s just as much fun this year as it was last year; and it’s a great reminder of how vast and awesome the blogosphere can be. In…
Hee-Haw Marketing: Find the Purpose. Make a... →
Engagement as a metric has been largely misused as a simple act, no matter the act, as an indication of commitment. An interaction with a banner ad, whether intended or not, this is engagement….
How Fast Is Twitter Growing? - TechCrunchies →
Number of Twitter users : 4-5 million // Daily New Registrations : 5000-10000 // Percent users who are unengaged : 30% // Percent users with no photo : 38% // Percent users with 0-5 followers : 22%…
Best of Tumblr Fridays! →
(Sorry for the delay. I hope you all enjoyed the holiday.) Here are the highlights from the past week on my Tumblr blog. Eartha Kitt, we’ll miss you. …
Journeys - In San Francisco Bars, a Cocktail Is... →
In the San Francisco Bay Area, a growing scene of local distillers and bartenders capable of wielding their elixirs to maximum effect has emerged. With wry flair, they combine technical perfection…
Uughh: 50 Christmas Wii Flip-Outs Make You Hate... →
Remember Nintendo 64 kid? Apparently that was just the tip of the iceberg. Much kudos if you can sit through this whole video without weeping, returning everyone’s gifts or scheduling a vasectomy….
(Special Guest Post) Toward a Better Definition of... →
(This is a special guest post by my girlfriend, and writer, Hannah. You can read one of her short stories “Fox Deceived” here on Granta.com) I recently returned from a month-long retreat which…
Social Media: 2009 conferences: Social media,... →
For the past two years I put together a calendar of some of the best social media, technology, media and marketing conferences for the upcoming year (is March crazy or what?). Here’s the list for…
Talent imitates, genius steals: Bet on the Future →
Next year is going to be hard. No denying it. But we live at a time where the economics of cultural production are being radically decentralised - where never have so many had a voice in the history…
Helge Tennø - Branding in 2009. Part 1: Creativity →
Two articles earlier this week focused on 2009 as the year brands will forget about branding and focus on short-term response marketing. To me this would be as smart as peeing on your self to keep…
The Web Development Elves →
Small websites, tools, and online services, built by independent developers will eventually dwarf the contributions of the major digital creative agencies. While you were sleeping, the web…
Beware the Social Media Siren - Adrian Ho →
Making matters worse, evidence is mounting that clients like Judge who take social media into their own hands are seeing greater success than those who rely upon their agencies to execute their…
Logic+Emotion: The Human Feed: How Twitter &... →
There’s a lot of talk about Twitter these days from upcoming books such as Shel Israel’s Twitterville to how-to’s like Twitter For Dummies. But there’s a much bigger movement at play here that you…
$50 Million on Relationships →
What would happen if you spent $50 Million dollars on cultivating better online relationships instead of on banner ads? Imagine that you are a big brand and your annual ad budget is several hundred…
Ypulse Guest Post: A Report From Youthwatching ‘09 →
“Youngsters’ minds are mostly set upon three things: getting their driver’s license, finding out who they are and their first sexual experience.” Some highlights from our report (you can watch more…
Better decision making - Helge Tennø →
But what do we need from consumer research and online tracking in order to become better communicators? Jon Steele said it best this summer: “I also think we should be angered by the accountability…
The End of Wall Street's Boom - National Business... →
By then, Eisman was so certain that the world had been turned upside down that he just assumed this guy must know it too. “But we’re sitting there,” Daniel recalls, “and he says to us, like he…
WatchVideo Gaming Trends - SlideShare
Best of Tumblr Fridays! →
The highlights from the past week on my Tumblr blog. The best thing this week was definitely the NY Public Library’s addition to the Flickr Commons. The collection included this phenomenal…
Watchturtletrip-2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Thank you for throwing your shoe →
Hold up your shoe for Muntadar al-Zeidi, the Iraqi journalist who was arrested for throwing his shoes at President Bush. We don’t condone shoe throwing, but we prefer it to war.
Einstein on Viral Video →
Einstein chimes in on “Is Your Video Viral?”
(create your own here: http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php)
