Links for July 1st through July 2nd
Things I’m tracking for July 1st through July 2nd:
- Christian Site's Ban on 'G' Word Sends Homosexual to Olympics - The Sleuth - Hysterical misadventure in autocorrection…
- Should You Invest in the Long Tail? - The article from HBR…
- Portals - WSJ.com - Is the Long Tail wrong? Check out this WSJ article and the subsequent link to the HBR piece from which the WSJ piece stems.
- Publicis Forms 'Open Source' Ad Network; Partners With AOL, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft - washingtonpost.com -
- ZenithOptimedia Lowers Its U.S. Advertising Forecast - WSJ.com -
Links for June 27th through June 30th
Things I’m tracking for June 27th through June 30th:
- Future Tense: June 23, 2008 Archives - wow! but will it make anybody buy a GM car?
- Future Tense: June 27, 2008 Archives - interesting and dangerous
- Tesla Motor's Elon Musk promises sub-$30k all-electric car in less than four years - Engadget - Sign me up!
- Brands Adjust to Media Fragmentation - eMarketer -
- iMedia Connection: Introduction: "Where We Are" - The deck from my opening presentation from this week's iMedia Entertainment Summit.
Links for June 24th through June 26th
Things I’m tracking for June 24th through June 26th:
- IORG - Information Overload Research Group -
- Windows Live Writer - Features -
- Five Methodologies to Deal with Email Overload - ReadWriteWeb -
- Info Overload: The Problem - ReadWriteWeb -
- The 10 Commandments of Web Design -
- The Disability Studies Reader - Google Book Search - Fascinating… a paper that I co-authored years ago is now available, at least in part, on Google Scholar.
- Google's Mobile-Handset Plans Are Slowed - WSJ.com -
- Digital Influence Mapping Project: Links for Listening - useful
Links for June 21st through June 22nd
Things I’m tracking for June 21st through June 22nd:
- Comedian George Carlin dies in Los Angeles at 71 - Los Angeles Times - RIP
- Presentation Zen: New Alltop topic: presentations & speaking - where I first learned about Alltop…
- Alltop, all the top stories - a truly fascinating site… scrapes and curates the "top" blogs and sites in a mass of different areas.
- Long Tail Analytics with Quantcast, Google Trends & Compete - Who Wins? | RyanSpoon.com -
- Wireless HDTVs to reach 1 million mark by 2012 - 6/20/2008 3:05:00 AM - ContentAgenda.com - CA6571928 -
Links for June 16th through June 17th
Things I’m tracking for June 16th through June 17th:
- Hollywood studios are editing their home-video strategy - Los Angeles Times -
- MySpace Might Have Friends, but It Wants Ad Money - NYTimes.com -
- The Future of Media » Blog Archive » Watch “Casablanca” on Your Mobile? -
- How we read online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine -
- Sony Series Will Start on Web, Go to DVD - WSJ.com -
- Andy Sernovitz's Damn, I Wish I'd Thought of That!: One of the greatest exhibit give-aways ever - A great idea, indeed.
Sometimes retail shopping annoys me
I want to create a new series of digital photos for my in-laws, to whom we gave a digital frame a couple of months back. I could hand them a SmartDisk or a thumb drive, but they aren’t all that tech-savvy and a CompactFlash card — just like the one I gave them with the frame — is undoubtedly the best way to go.
I dashed out over lunch to run a couple of errands and stopped by Rite Aid and Radio Shack. At RiteAid, a 2 gigabyte CF card was $69.99. At Radio Shack, when I got there it was $34.99, but then while I was standing there the man at the cash register said, “oh, that sale has expired… it expired on the 14th… let me see…”
The new price was $79.99.
I walked out of both stores. At Costco.com there’s a 2GB CF card for $37.99 and a sale on a FOUR GB CF card for $33.99. At Amazon.com I can get a 2GB CF card for $25.44 and a 4GB CF card for $33.95.
I’m a big fan of Amazon Prime, but I still prefer to buy local — even chain-store local — when I can. I want corporations to invest in my community. I like to have steady, cumulative relationships with businesses I frequent. I like to avoid increasing my carbon footprint (all that cardboard and plastic that Amazon uses…).
But I’m not going to pay more than DOUBLE.
Geez.
Links for June 10th through June 14th
Things I’m tracking for June 10th through June 14th:
- Book Review - 'Bottlemania - How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It,' by Elizabeth Royte - Review - NYTimes.com -
- Consumed - The Silence Generation - Noise - Cities - Bose QuietComfort Headphones - NYTimes.com -
- When Mom and Dad Share It All - Adventures in Equal Parenting - Lisa Belkin - NYTimes.com -
- Linda Stone: Is it Time to Retire the Never-Ending List? - Living on The Huffington Post - fantastic post
- Disney streams catalog movies online - 6/10/2008 4:04:00 PM - ContentAgenda.com - CA6568969 -
- Attention Must Be Paid - Shifting Careers - Small Business - New York Times Blog -
Links for June 8th through June 10th
Things I’m tracking for June 8th through June 10th:
- AT&T Mobility Chief: New 3G iPhone Is a Game-changer - GigaOM -
- Using the iPhone to Mine for Gold & Sense - GigaOM -
- Fraggmented: Storytelling Engines: Batgirl - Fascinating.
- BERGHAHN JOURNALS -
- Film Content, Editing, And Directing Style Affect Brain Activity, Neuroscientists Show -
- Monitor | Rummaging through the internet | Economist.com -
Big media FAILS AGAIN!
Today, Monday morning on June 9, 2008, I have yet to listen to Hillary Clinton’s exit speech from the presidential race. I’m about to be in the car for the morning and thought I’d download the speech and listen to it on my iPod as I drive.
Turns out, I can’t find a podcast of the speech for love or money. Not on NPR, not on CNN, not on the big network websites.
My loyalty is cheap for the asking: just give me what I want and I’ll use you as my default news source.
Honestly, why is this so hard?
Links for June 5th through June 8th
Things I’m tracking for June 5th through June 8th:
- Fun with brands - Jane’s Brand-timeline Portrait « Dear Jane Sample -
- This Blog Sits at the: brands: meaning in, meaning out -
- Average U.S. Home Now Receives a Record 118.6 TV Channels | Nielsen Media Research -
- Nielsen: Avg. U.S. homes Watch Same Number of Channels Weekly -
- Nicholas G. Carr: Articles: Bonfire of the Brands -