If you’re at all like me, you find yourself very pleasantly surprised when you download a whitepaper, research report or promo brochure from the website of a for-profit organization and it actually has content worth thinking about and passing along to others.
I’ve been remissing in failing to blog about teamDigital’s very fine “PROMOTIONS 2.0: The Future [...]
It’s been quite a few years since I was a regular reader of Robert X. Cringely in print. I recall when he had a regular column in InfoWorld that it was always good fun. In 1996 he published a book which I purchased, “Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle [...]
Twaxed.com: A fun site discovered today that clearly points to the downside of Tweeting.
According to the FAQ:
Why is my Tweet on Twaxed.com?
Your Tweet got #twaxed because it is absurdly ridiculous, completely inappropriate, or highly entertaining.
What is this site?
With your help, we post and then rank the most ridiculous, inappropriate, and entertaining Tweets submitted to Twitter. [...]
I was asked tonight by a friend the simple, “How’s it going?”
I’m generally in a positive mood and responded: “Times are still tough, but I remain optimistic about the future of publishing.”
It’s later now and I got to thinking:
There are still more deaths than births in the publishing business. And that can be depressing.
Let me [...]
From an August posting on eMarketer:
Say no more.
In this week’s online The New Yorker there’s a great Ros Chast cartoon called “Meet Mr. Twitters.”
You’ll find it also at the link above, along with 16 others, and the usual generous selection of free content from the current issue (with some kept behind the firewall to encourage subscriptions).
I can only leave this cartoon posted [...]
A cute article in today’s Wall Street Journal brought me to the site www.netlingo.com. The About section includes:
People tell me everyday “it’s tough to keep up with all of this new technology!” I tell them “you’re not alone!” It used to be that understanding the Internet was only for computer professionals and web design folks. [...]
I don’t watch television so have to rely on surfing the Web to find fun things that are broadcast on TV. Seems a bit roundabout, no?
At any rate, I caught this fun snippet of Kevin Spacey explaining Twitter to David Letterman, and offering some advice on the etiquette of tweeting.
Meanwhile the New York Times reported [...]
The Wall Street Journal Digits blog reports today on the tremendous success of “Evian’s new advertising campaign, which has taken off on YouTube, thanks to a troupe of infants breakdancing and roller-skating across the screen. The campaign, called ‘Live Young,’ broke last week and has gotten more than 2.8 million views on YouTube in the [...]
Without comment:
From Despairware.com
