Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

A diagram showing how the various tables of the WordPress blogging platform relate to one another. (via)

MarketingSherpa looks at a promotion Madone bike company did to launch high-cost bicycles. Full case study. Nugget: They paid more attention to placement and made sure to put an image, text and a call to action above the fold. Also: Send traffic to a dedicated microsite: All emails were directed to a microsite that further […]

From the contact form: Andy, I was just about to pass your site on to a friend of mine who is also in internet marketing when I came across your word “bastard.” That is unacceptable language in a professional situation and many people find it offensive. You will find greater success with a greater number […]

Nice. (via) CreateSpace is the new name of Amazon’s on-demand self-publishing service for the super long tail of books, audio CD’s and film DVD/Blue-ray. Products automatically get an ISBN number and are listed on Amazon.com, including “Search Inside” for books.

Super Six Apart smarty-pants (and best use of the color purple in the blogosphere) Anil Dash on the Fake Steve Jobs dust-up: Daniel Lyons, author of the heretofore-anonymous Fake Steve Jobs blog, which comments extensively on companies in the technology industry, was also the author of Forbes’ November 2005 cover story “Attack of the Blogs”, […]

Everybody’s favorite debunker takes on homeopathy: James Randi Explains Homeopathy

NYTimes has an article (requires NYTimes registration) on all those multi-millionaires in Silicon Valley that are deluding themselves that they aren’t in the top 1% of the country’s wealthy: “I know people looking in from the outside will ask why someone like me keeps working so hard,” Mr. Steger says. “But a few million doesn’t […]

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 […]