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links for 2007-08-31

• 45 Excellent Blog Designs | Design Showcase
  (tags: design development howto blogs creativity)
• The Knight Shift: Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made by infringing on my own copyright!
  (tags: politics video copyright)
• Copyfight: Viacom runs Web video, claims copyright - Valleywag
• » LinkedIn vs Facebook (round two) | The Social Web | ZDNet.com

links for 2007-08-30

• Finding the Way Home: Two Years After Katrina by Brenda Ann Kenneally
  A documentary short film on MediaStorm. They are making tremendous old-school multi-media.
  (tags: video photography documentary)
• Advertising Age - MediaWorks Media People - What's a Smart Way to Advertise on Social Networks?
  (tags: social_media socialnetworking advertising)
• Ukulele Players Worldwide
  (tags: Ukulele music reference)

links for 2007-08-29

• Facebook Takes Further Steps To Curb User Abuse; Change In How Applications Are Measured
  (tags: socialnetworking advertising facebook)
• The Photographers' Gallery | Plastic Bag Gallery
  (tags: photography photoblogs)
• Online Spin » Blog Archive » Improving Traditional Media Through Social Media
  (tags: marketing media social-media)

links for 2007-08-28

• Genuine VC: Gazing at your Own Navel: On Social Networks, Blogging, and Brands
  Very good post on social networks, blogs and what consumers of media want
  (tags: research facebook socialnetworking social_media)
• UrbanVelo - Bicycle Culture on the Skids
  (tags: activism blog)
• YouTube - Miss Teen USA South Carolina 2007 with Subtitles
  1/5 of Americans can't locate the US on a map, Miss Teen USA South Carolina explains why. This video is actually a sub-titled version of the original.
• Micro Persuasion: The Web Changes How We Define Friendship
  (tags: social_media socialnetworking)
• Transportation Alternatives: Sensible Transportation: Congestion Pricing
  A great run down on congestion pricing. (Via M.U.G)
  (tags: cycling transportation)
• paidContent.org - The Economics of Content - Will They, Won’t They: Mortgage Market Meltdown And Online Advertising
  (tags: advertising media, business)

links for 2007-08-27

• The Internet is Dead and Boring - Blog Maverick
  (tags: internet trends web2.0)

links for 2007-08-25

• Shop-A-Matic - New York Magazine
  Nice new feature on NYmag.com; slide shows of locally available furniture. Can be sorted by price. Store address and other data in the window. Should be nice page view driver.
  (tags: shopping webdesign)
• Out-of-body experience recreated
  Scientists can create out-of-body experience. Virtual reality may take a next leap forward.
  (tags: science technology yoga brain)
• Techdirt: NY Times Launches My Yahoo Clone A Decade Late
  ouch
  (tags: media,)
• Damsels In Success
  new networking site for women
  (tags: community SocialSoftware web2.0 women)

Many pointless flowcharts

Are you Amy Winehouse? BoingBoing helps answer this question and others with links to a number of really great pointless flowcharts.

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links for 2007-08-24

• Finding the True Value of Web Technologies
  (tags: tech trends media web2.0)
• New Playboy Social Network Built On Ning
  (tags: social_media socialnetworking)

Wouldn't Playboy be better off building a socnet on Facebook?

Very smart comment on TechCrunch's post about Playboy building a socnet on Ning. I think it is dead on.

Good
win for Ning, but it’s hard to figure how Playboy is going to get
critical mass here. Seems to me a much better strategy would be to
build a Playboy “private club” app on top of Facebook Platform, where
the social graph is already in place (especially .edu). Pity the poor
old-line media companies, trying desperately to keep their heads above
water, in the final throes of death. Playboy still has a great brand,
at least for old farts like me (anybody over 25), but methinks even the
iconic brand is fading fast. Pity. Sniffle."

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links for 2007-08-23

• ifamily facebook app gets funding
  (tags: facebook applications)

links for 2007-08-22

• Smart Questions That Will Super Charge Your Life - lifehack.org
  (tags: creativity howto advice)
• Boing Boing: Karl Rove's Pierced Family Jewels, part 2: Jim Ward interview (audio)
  Piercing pioneer Jim Ward who in 1975 launched what is now considered America's first contemporary body piercing business, remembers Louis "Indy" Rove, an early body modification enthusiast who is identified as the adoptive father... Karl Rove. The elder
  (tags: politics family)
• Google LatLong: YouTube-style Embeddable Maps
  (tags: googlemaps mapping)
• FUSSY BABY
  many ways to calm a fussy baby
  (tags: baby)
• Spooks Get Their Own MySpace
  Weird - spies creating other profiles for spies to connect. Thought the whole point was to remain unknown.

links for 2007-08-21

• paidContent.org - The Economics of Content - Pittman’s Group Buys Niche Magazine Company; Hope To Build Online Presence
• Advertising Age - Steve Rubel - Three Strategies for Thriving on the Decentralized Web
• Cyclists Always Get The Coolest Jackets
  YouTube video of a jacket whose back glows green when you accelerate and red when you brake, and whose arms light up when signaling a turn.
  (tags: cycling)

dogbook vs dogster

Should/Can a media company launch a social network by not launching a social network and just leverage facebook and all of the other social nets that are about to open? Learned in a meeting today that Dogbook, a facebook app is larger than Dogster right now after only three or four months. The app gives you a sub-profile that could serve ads and you could probably replicate this over and over so why bother launching a stand alone? Or perhaps do both?

links for 2007-08-20

• The Filter - Your Ultimate Music Companion
  (tags: applications SocialSoftware OSX music)

NYT introduces audio walking tours

Turf of Gangs and Gangsters - New York Times is a walking tour of Hell's Kitchen. Reporters walking with residents. About time they did this.

The wait is over - but blogging will continue to be slow for a bit

Wilhelmina Vivian Romer-Mack was born last Tuesday night and after two nights in the hospital we arrived home as new parents. B ended up being induced but other than that had an unmedicated childbirth. Our doula and I were there to help and support her. It was one of the most intense and amazing things I've ever experienced. Here is a photo of Willa. I am hoping to return to more regular posting in a week or two.

Discovery Buys Green Lifestyle Blog/Site Treehugger For About $15 Million

Paidcontent reports that Treehugger has been bought by Discovery for about 15 million dollars. Makes sense to complement their green TV programming. I've been a long-time (well as long as its been around) reader of treehugger and was impressed by the way they added new features. When they wanted to do video they posted to YouTube and then vlogged it before moving on to their own player. They also introduced a flavor of digg to cover environmental issues.

Waiting

We are waiting for the baby. I've taken off from work. Ready for the change and the arrival. Waiting. Trying to pace the excitement and anxiety. Like the transition from the last hours of a vacation, or the wait when you are meeting someone after work for a wonderful dinner but don't have time to go home. The need to pace around, not rush things and be open to the experience of this time of waiting. The knowledge that these are the last hours without a child and the idea of savoring them tempered with the excitement and slight impatience for the moment to arrive. Not sure what to do with ourselves and knowing that our impatience and watching will delay the arrival, we are going to the beach.