October 2007
22 posts
A very short story of great customer service →
WatchThis is one of the most amazing football plays I’ve ever seen!
Election Center 2008: Candidates →
According to this CNN list, Al Gore has the third most amount of support from registered dems. That must make people like Edwards and Richardson crazy.
Nothing compares to 'Toad the Wet Sprocket'
I have listed below a few band names from the most recent College Music Journal Music Marathon in NYC. This list of the marathon’s best band names was originally created by WIRED’s Listening Post. Which is your favorite? Mine is “Tom Schraeder & His Ego.”
A Band Called Pain
AIDS Wolf
Care Bears on Fire
Cut Off Your Hands
Deleted Waveform Gatherings
Future In...
YouTube needs a new text writer
Check out what YouTube says to its users who have not been using its site as a social networking one. (Which, I’m sure, is quite a few million.)
Instead of “You have no Friends,” how about something a little more friendly? Any ideas for what they could say instead?
Today in Documentary Studies we had a guest speaker, Nancy Buirski. She is a very successful woman who has worked at 5-7 really amazing places, including NBC news, in South Africa studying monkeys, at Magnum photo agency, as a New York Times photo editor, and as founder of the wildly successful annual Full Frame Documentary Festival here in Durham, NC. Just hearing about her life was truly...
Someone tell Hype Machine their name is ironic...
Having worked in Marketing/Strategy at my new job for about 2-3 weeks, I have certainly heard many crazy ideas for marketing our website, Shoeboxed.com. Viral marketing is especially important, but it’s also the hardest to plan and implement.
It looks like The Hype Machine is attempting some major viral marketing today. Here’s what their website redirects to right now:
It’s...
RIAA's Gold and Platinum Directory →
Hey, the RIAA is good for something! This is actually really interesting. Elvis had 24 multiplatinum albums?!
Neither here nor there: where's the transition?
This may be the most hilariously written news story you will see this year. I have copied the ABC2 story below in its entirety. Note the complete lack of effort in providing some transition between topics, going from a happy, funny story to one about a fiery crash:
Sir Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Airlines, invited a young woman on board his airplanes anytime she wanted. Kyla Ebbert is...
“The best technology is magic. Someone tags a photo of me in Facebook and I am...”
– Fred Wilson, from his long Calacanis-esque blog entry
WatchClick through. More info here.
Someday zune / I'm gonna sail the big blue ocean /...
I stumbled upon Paul Thurrott’s recent (month-old) preview of the new Microsoft Zunes.
Talking points:
Zune 4GB, 8GB, 30GB, and 80GB to be offered (for $150, $200, $200, and $250, respectively)
All run the same software
Zune Marketplace has been completely renovated from the ground up and will sell one third of its 3 million songs with no DRM whatsoever
All updates for new Zunes...
Everyone should remember their first time
One of my top-10 used web services, Pandora, asked a great question today:
I am pretty sure that the first record I ever bought was a 45rpm single of Nick Gilder’s Hot Child in the City (how awesome is that?). The most recent record I’ve bought is Sensuous by Cornelius. Where did you start, and where are you now? A snapshot, please, of two records: your first purchase, and your...
