Stuff you should know, stuff I should remember.

I don’t always feel like I ‘get’ personal branding. I think it’s because of my theatre background. Most theories of acting are either 1) you inhabit and become the character who is completely different from you or 2) you play the character as your full intimate self inside that situation. One is about layers of […]

Bill Moyers hosted Kathleen Hall Jamieson on a recent Bill Moyers Journal. Regardless of your point of view on healthcare, she illustrates how uninformed public opinion polls shape and reinforce media coverage: Unless you start by asking the public in a poll what they know, what the baseline level of knowledge is, it doesn’t matter […]

I’m often grabbing screencaps of sites and then throwing them into Fireworks or Picnik to edit them and then editing them and resizing them and cropping them and then uploading and pretending like it is all an effective process. Usually I just want a nice screencap to setup a post. I found a bunch of […]

from http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/04/02/lol-pixar-vs-dreamworks/

From Google TechTalks YouTube channel: Good quotes: “To the user, the interface is the product.” “If you notice the interface, that means you’re thinking about the interface and not the thing you’re trying to do.” “The perfect interface for a shovel is a hole that you can put wherever you want it.” “The seduction of […]

A lot has been written in the past few days about how social media and technology has been at the center of the developments in Iran. But I’d like to go a few decades back. Something rather startling happened during Obama’s trip to the Middle East a few weeks ago. For the first time a […]

Had this half-completed on my hard drive. Sitting here waiting for the dance show to come on and finished it:

Dexia reminds the athletes they sponsor the correct way to celebrate victory: http://www.wikimaniacs.com/think-of-your-sponsor/

An API is a way for website or service to talk to another website or service. APIs let you mix information and media from other services into your own site or application. API stands for ‘application programming interface’ but it is best explained by looking at an example: The folks at Yelp let their users […]

MarketingSherpa has a case study on a newsletter publisher that used social media sharing buttons in their newsletter. Here’ a few nuggets: They asked their subscribers which networks they used. They checked inbound traffic to see where content was already being poseted. They used the social buttons for each article (or piece of content) in […]