Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

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.

I’m no big Powncer yet. I just don’t get why it is so damned amazing. I still don’t get why I should drop it for Skype or Adium connecting to my AOL, Y!, MSN and GTalk accounts (I’ve got Twitter pushed through the GTalk alias). I understand that from a geek perspective is uses the […]

Stats and case studies from MarketingSherpa: 43% of consumers use the internal search function immediately upon arriving at a retail site. That’s why internal search tweaks are among the most important — and profitable — tactics you can test. So, it stands to reason that a search button in your email is just as important […]

Reason takes a look at US Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s online campaigning: Ron Paul is popular on the Internet, too, with more YouTube subscribers than any other candidate, the fastest-growing political presence in MySpace, a constant perch atop the Technorati rankings, and a near-Olympian record at winning unscientific Web polls. But will this translate into […]