In celebration of “WordPress Thank a Plugin Developer Day” I’m posting a few interesting links. Colors In Corporate Branding – (thanks to Tracy Shaw for the link) – Check out the Bank of America link – I wonder if their website loads in Korean if you don’t select a language, just like their ATM machines do. 😉 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats – bookmark this one, it’ll come in handy for all those Powerpoint presentations. Wow your…
I was first introduced to John Updike at the University of Vermont by one of my two favorite professors, Dr. Allen G. Shepherd. From there I developed a long term affair with Updike’s works. Alas, there will be no more… From the New York Times: John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to earn him comparisons with Henry James and Edmund…
My father used to tell a story from his youth, growing up in the depression with my Grandmother and my Great Aunt Sue, the family matriarch and a woman whose strength I never fully appreciated in my youth. There were rules which Aunt Sue used to keep the family together, and one of those was “No Day Laborers.” It was tough times in Dorchester, Ma during the Great Depression. As it turned out, that rule worked quite well for the…
Bow Thayer rocks – I’ve been a fan since the 1980s and he just keeps on getting better. I had a hard time choosing which song to use, so be sure to check out some of his other great stuff on YouTube, and buy his album. He’ll be playing at The Lucky Dog Music Saloon in Worcester on Feb. 6, and in Cambridge at Club Passim on Jan. 28 – be sure to check him out. I’ll be at the…
For those of us that live and work in the world of the web, we know how important launching your new site at the right time is. Today we saw an execution like no other. While President Barack Obama was sworn in, a site update for Whitehouse.gov was launched, and it’s a good one. My initial assessment is this: the change was well timed, prefectly executed, and seems to offer all the basics we could want, from a very strong…
…And every blogger as well. From Journalism.co.uk via Brenda Christensen, a list of the skills every journalist should have. 5. That churnalism is much easier to spot online. If you do this regularly, your readers are already on to you – merely re-writing press releases without bringing anything to the table no longer cuts it. 6. Google is your friend. But if you are not using advanced search techniques, you really have no idea what it is capable of. 7. You do…
Something has been been bothering me for a while about Social Media and the new marketing attention it gets. It’s seemed to me that we’ve given a very small group of our customers/readers and even the internet at large unprecedented importance. You’ve got people marketing types from the highest circles of management reaching out to try to solve support problems for customers. I think the thing that has been bothering me is that this creates a two tiered experience….
Google announced late last week that they were killing 6 of their services, Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google Mashup Editor, Google Notebook, Jaiku, and Google Video. Additionally, the Jaiku service is going to be an open source project from here on out. From Informationweek: In addition to Google’s announcements about the elimination of 100 recruiting positions and the shutdown of offices in Austin, Texas; Trondheim, Norway; and Lulea, Sweden, the company said it would close Dodgeball, Google Catalog Search, Google…
(Disclosure, I’ve done web work for Dan Lyons, aka “FakeSteveJobs” in the past couple years. I like him…but this post isn’t about that.) Mid-week, Apple announced to their employees that Steve Jobs was taking a leave of absence due to ongoing health issues. This comes on the heals of his non-appearance at MacWorld, which had spurred another eruption of rumors in blogjikstan that he’s gravely ill. However, amny ofof the old media tech hands dismissed this a case of Apple…
Via Editor and Publisher…with a pointer from Hart Van Denburg. Less than two years after it was bought by a private equity group, the Star Tribune has filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 bankruptcy. But wait, there’s more… In December, Harte told employees the “survival of the company” was at stake and asked labor unions to agree to $20 million in cuts by mid-January. Without those cuts, Harte said the newspaper could face bankruptcy. The Star Tribune ranked as the…