January 2009
132 posts
Gigundo Industries →
Cartoons for presentations, brochures, ads, tatoos, excuses…
GTD Toolbox: 100+ Resources for Getting Things... →
The method is just as popular today as it was back in 2007 when we ran our GTD Ninja post featuring more than 50 apps to help you be more productive and organized. But there are a host of new…
Best of Tumblr Fridays! →
My favorite links, photos, and videos from the past week on my Tumblr blog. A beautiful stop-motion animation music video (via Coudal): Clay Parker Jones is thinking about…
10 Things All Businesses Should Do to Market More... →
Here are Inside Facebook’s top 10 ways business owners can more effectively leverage Facebook to reach their target audience and drive more business.
Addictive Mac and Cheese - Bitten Blog -... →
Martha’s recipe, which could feed the entire von Trapp family, was very easy to follow, though — and this is a point of debate in the macaroni and cheese forums — it requires that you make a white…
The Minimalist - A Venetian Marinade of Wine and... →
It’s a marinated rib-eye, and part of the luck came in ordering it in the first place, since I’m not big on marinating meat that tastes fine just by itself. This, however, was clearly an ancient…
Hee-Haw Marketing: Community and Complementary... →
We must work to build these communities by providing them both the tools and the freedom to create along with us. We must build narratives through complementary media in ways that further the story…
Manhattan Font Reminds Us Why We Heart NY | PSFK →
This new people font from Kapitza may seem oddly familiar to some of you. Dubbed Manhattan, the font is an OpenType font portraying street life in and around the streets, avenues and boulevards of…
4 Tenets of Digital Branding →
Rob Walker, author of Buying In and the Consumed column in the NYTimes, says that these two fundamental human desires motivate our decisions in life: …to stand out and be different…
Proof that Savvy Social Media Users are the Most... →
The research I did on viral content sharing shows that frequent users of social web technologies like Twitter, blogs, and social news and networking sites tend to share online content with more…
Online Egg Timer by BusyNoise.com →
1. Create a new alarm, note or egg timer. 2. Turn up speaker volume. 3. Repeat step 1. You can add multiple countdowns/alarms/notes.
LOLcats Sing "Love Cats": Pics, Videos, Links,... →
Someone’s made a video of LOLcats covering the Cure song (one of my faves) “Love Cats.”
Buttermilk Channel - Restaurant Girl →
Buttermilk Channel’s all about Brooklyn: 15 Brooklyn beers, breads, bratwurst, ice cream, cider, mozzarella, and even a 2005 Merlot called Brooklyn Oenology. And Buttermilk Channel caters to everyone…
John Updike, Author, Dies at 76 - Obituary (Obit)... →
John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age…
How to Be An Exciting Brand Without Offending... →
Sorry, it’s impossible. If you want to have a compelling brand online, you have to be ok with the fact that you might alienate some people. It’s a good thing. I’ve been talking a lot lately about…
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Errol Morris Blog -... →
During the last week of the Bush administration, I asked the head photo editors of these news services — Vincent Amalvy (AFP), Santiago Lyon (AP) and Jim Bourg (Reuters) — to pick the photographs of…
Listen Before You Speak →
This morning I was reminded of this great quote from Helge Tennø, “Now marketers wouldn’t interrupt a phone call, but they try hard to interrupt social media – figure that one out?” As companies…
Recipe of the Day: Light, Fluffy and Rich Pancakes... →
Pancake batter can be made from scratch in about the same time it takes to make toast. This variation of the basic, everyday pancake recipe is rich, thanks to the addition of ricotta or cottage…
Alosha's Kitchen: Tortiglioni with sausage and... →
Tortiglioni (or rigatoni or penne), olive oil, sweet Italian sausage, chopped leeks, chicken broth (preferably homemade), white wine, salt, pepper, fontina cheese
Can Free Content Boost Your Sales? Yes, It Can -... →
Despite the entertainment industry’s constant cries about how bad they’re doing, it works. As we wrote yesterday, Monty Python’s DVDs climbed to No. 2 on Amazon’s Movies & TV bestsellers list, with…
Photography: 1,474 Megapixel Inauguration Panorama... →
Containing over 2GB of photo data and comprised of over 220 images shot from a Canon G10 Bridge camera on a Gigapan robotic camera mount, David Bergman’s incredibly detailed panorama is filled with…
Best of Tumblr Fridays! →
The highlights in links, photos, and videos from the past week on my Tumblr blog. Hub Culture 2009 Global Cities Zeitgeist Ranking Change is in the air, and it has a decidedly political slant….
Hub Culture 2009 Global Cities Zeitgeist Ranking →
Change is in the air, and it has a decidedly political slant. The third Hub Culture Zeitgeist Ranking debuts with a new No. 1, set amid a palpable shift in our collective expectations. Security,…
Grandma's Graphics: Childrens' Book Illustrations →
From Harry Clarke to 1890’s storybooks, if you’re looking for unique images or clipart for use on your web pages or in other design or craft projects you’ve come to the right place. There’s a…
Take Your Brand Apart →
Value arises [in The Matrix franchise] from the process of looking for meaning (and the elaboration of the story by the audience) and not purely from the intentionality of the Wachowski…
Online Video of Inauguration Sets Records -... →
Data from CNN.com captured the uniqueness of the online surge. CNN said it provided more than 21.3 million video streams over a nine-hour span up to midafternoon. That blew past the 5.3 million…
‘Reading On The Rise’ According To Recent NEA... →
For the first time in the history of the survey - conducted five times since 1982 - the overall rate at which adults read literature (novels and short stories, plays, or poems) rose by seven percent….
Branding for a Recombinant Culture →
We live in a world where we expect things to be taken apart and put back together in new way. We expect things to be remixed. You can learn all about the history of Recombinant Culture in this…