Category: General

There’s no time to eat. There’s no time to cook. Mark Bittman’s article, Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less, has become one of the top most emailed stories of the summer for the New York Times. And it isn’t hard to see why. Print it out. Post it to the […]

The developers of Adium (a multi-protocol IM client for Mac, kinda like Trillian for Windows): MSN censors messages containing particular fragments of URLs. Previously, the message would simply be dropped with no indication to either side that it went away; now, at least, you get an error message (inline in the message view). Pieces of […]

(the video links in this post open in a new window so you can still reference this post as you review the clips) In school we were told to improve on our weaknesses. Or to ignore them. Or to hide them. American choreographer Bob Fosse did the exact opposite. He built his unmistakable style on […]

Wasn’t aware of this: It happened in 2000. The Harry Potter books — a once in a lifetime publishing phenomenon — were dominating the bestseller lists, with three titles ensconced in the Top 15 at the same time. It just wasn’t fair, moaned publishers of more “serious” fiction. It kept more deserving titles off the […]

The final run of Easy Bake Weblogs for 2007 starts in a few weeks. I’ll be hosting a free preview call on August 1 at 7:30pm EST. Register now… The run of the course starts on the 6th. This will be the last time I teach this course myself so be sure to join me […]

From the G-Men: In with the growth of online news sites, Americans still read newspapers. Over the course of a typical week, nearly 3 out of 4 adults (115 million) in the top 50 markets read a copy of a daily or Sunday newspaper.* That’s why thousands of businesses use print advertising every day to […]

So if Oprah’s dog just choked to death – did she attract that? Or is just an accident? I thought there were no accidents. (snark via Reddit headline)

Just posted this over at the Sandbox Theme Group – posting it here to give it a bit more exposure: This has been on my mind for a long time and there might be some kind of official party line or discussion that settled it once and for all. But… Has anyone ever thought of […]

Just came thru the inbox. Nielsen is doing a teleconference on strategies for marketers to use blogging: Did you know that CPG marketers can buy blog buzz? Well, sort of: According to a study by the Nielsen Company, high buzz volume around new product launches is tightly linked to media spend. The collaborative study was […]

Speedbird writes: In choosing to lock their iPhone customers into a relationship with AT&T, though, Apple also binds their own reputation to AT&T’s manifest inability to execute at anything like this level. And that’s going to haunt them as long as AT&T has exclusive access to the iPhone customer base.