Category: General

I’m going to attempt to not watch any television news today. The slight iota that events change hour to hour does not merit me seeing the ‘panic crawl’ – the scrolling headlines at the bottom of the screen. They’d switched to the CNN International newsfeed and it was interesting to note how much quieter the […]

I just wanted to make that clear. Virtual Book Tours were invented by Kevin Smokler back in 2003.

The Lieberman campaign keeps teaching us online marketing lessons: Joe Lieberman’s website went down a couple days ago and the blogosphere went crazy with rumors of denial-of-service attacks (the IP addresses remained ping-able). Analysis has shown: – Lieberman’s campaign was paying $15/month for shared hosting – they weren’t the only customer on the box they […]

Article from Time: Still, as the bloggers themselves admit, Lamont’s victory was about far more than them. Lieberman’s fervent support for the Iraq War, and his attacks on many of his party who opposed President Bush’s policy there, annoyed Connecticut voters as much as bloggers. Also, aside from the war, Lieberman suffered from a feeling […]

Ever want to peek inside what AOL users are searching for? The search queries that got leaked are mirrored elsewhere on the web. Better grab it while you can. I can’t wait to get this sucker in Excel.

Wow: http://research.aol.com released a list of 20 million + searches by 500,000 AOL users. Contained in this list are social security numbers, credit cards and other personal information. There are some truly scary things in this database. There are hundreds of searches from people looking to kill themselves and even more scary are searches from […]

I think I forgot to blog this! Blogwild! is featured in the July issue of Realtor Magazine as a ‘Must Read’ for summer: If you haven’t entered the blogosphere yet, this book might help you take the leap. Thanks realtors!

Reviewing some learning materials for a mastermind group I’m in. I often feel like I haven’t ‘arrived’ at my final strategy for my business and my life. I think that one component is that going into the theatre world, you have this general understanding that you’ll get to do your fun stuff – and then […]

MarketingSherpa has a report on formatting your ezine for different email clients – I’m almost scared to read it. Here’s a quick test we’d like you to try right this minute: Step #1. Turn on one of the preview pane options in Outlook. Step #2. Turn off (block) images. (here’s how) Step #3. Pick an […]

Yeah. Like this is really that important. 😉 Participants with prefrontal damage were impaired in comprehending sarcasm, whereas the people in the other two groups had no such problem. Within the prefrontal group, people with damage in the right ventromedial area had the most profound problems in comprehending sarcasm. The ventromedial area is the inferior […]