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links for 2009-07-31- two links about growthspur an interesting local ad start-up

• Taming the Web for Local Advertisers - BusinessWeek
  Jon Fine on GrowthSpur
• GrowthSpur Blog
  wow - new local advertising consultancy launches. look forward to seeing what happens with this. great team.

Kate Miller-Heidke sings R U Kidding me about a potential Facebook friend.

A few months ago I was sent a friend request by someone with whose last words to me, if I remember correctly since it was 15 years ago, were "you're an a--hole." I had also heard that several years ago he had said something unpleasant about me as well. To top it off the friend request didn't even have a note. This song nicely sums up what I'm sure a lot of us feel about some of the "friend" requests we get as our entire high school, camp, and college classes start reuniting. I'm sure that I've elicited some of the same thing going the other way with people too. Anyway this video which I saw first on a friend's Facebook update is great.

It's an illusion - 3d camo suit look like a pile of leaves

Last year, or maybe the year before, I bought a cool hunter camouflage tote bag from L.L. Bean. This, of course, has resulted in my being sent the L.L. Bean Hunting catalog.  have to admit that some of the Woolrich style wool vests and pants meant for upland hunting look nice.  But the thing that really jumped out at me was this 3d Camo Suit. Bad puns aside it seems a steal at $99. You can dress up like a large pile of leaves and move around.  There has been some discussion in my house that a really good urban complement to this would be a 3d office camo suit. It might be a dull wall color and have a one or two inch wide desk at waist level with post-its, and fake file drawer fronts.

links for 2009-07-28 about iphone friendly browser design and an interview with Vivian Schiller of NPR about free and not-for-profit models for news, mommy bloggers, bikesnob, and Naomi wolf on Guantanamo Bay...

How's that for a subject line? :)

iPhone Code Tips: Designing an iPhone-friendly Website some coding help on iphone friendly sites
Web Design Inspiration for the iPhone more iphone friendly sites
21 iPhone-friendly news sites and how to format your own :: 10,000 Words :: multimedia, online journalism news and reviews
Media: National Public Radio's Digital Makeover | Newsweek Business | Newsweek.com - Vivian Schiller, CEO of NPR, (and former GM of the NYT) talks about NPR's makeover, the delusional ideas of getting people to pay for news and the naive idea of newspapers becoming not-for-profits. Great interview. Also great new site. I love their focus on local.
For the Bike World, Tough Love From a Self-Described Snob - NYTimes.com obey his diktats. wonderful blog for many reasons but the sport he has with the absurd word colorway by broadening its use to flavorway, appearanceway is really something
Can ‘Good Blogging Seal Of Approval’ Help Mommy Bloggers Avoid The Regulators? | paidContent
Guantánamo Bay: the inside story - Times Online - for some reason they let Naomi Wolf visit Guantanamo...go Ms. Wolf

Great site- OldJewsTellingJokes.com

So yesterday, I was with my daughter buying some flowers in the flower shop having a nice conversation with the florist. After picking the out the flowers and having them wrapped I discovered I was three dollars short of their credit card minimum so I bought two more and said that I hoped that she would be able to squeeze them in without unwrapping them. She said "I think so, I've been working on my schtupping skills," which had me wondering if she was misusing the word, a fluent Yiddish speaker, or just flirting. There is a joke there somewhere, and by the time I figure it out I may qualify for Old Jews Telling Jokes.  Tumblr powered using blip.tv for distribution the producers get notable Jews to tell beautifully filmed jokes against a white backdrop with nice titles. Daniel Okrent, featured below, tells a nice joke titled Schmuck. Others on the site include Harry Macklowe, and Mayor Koch plus many others.. I found about the site from a connoisseur of jokes and how right she was. What a nice site.

Launched new site for In Fed We Trust

I've just launched a site for David Wessel and his book In Fed We Trust. Very simple and straightforward it leverages Typepad and it's journal black design with some modifications and template customization. It enables Wessel to update it himself, post news and video of appearances, add to the reviews. There is also a section where people can share thoughts, and see his most recent posts on Twitter. The book comes out officially on August 4th and the reviews are amazing. 

links for 2009-07-26 - some new NYC tech sites

NYConvergence - A digest of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut digital media technology news -just discovered this site. may become a daily read.

links for 2009-07-22

CHART OF THE DAY: How People Share Content On The Web - interesting. fb by a big margin then email then the twitterverse. i use delicious and occasionally twitter to save links. they then write to fb where people see them.

Yahoo! Inc. - Yahoo! and AT&T Interactive to Drive Consumers to Local Businesses

The Minimalist - Recipes for 101 Simple Salads for the Season - NYTimes.com - yum - now how to work my way through this list? by number or more randomly?

links for 2009-07-11

• Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing: Ron Conway on Real Time monetization revenue

links for 2009-07-10

• The Longest Tweet In History - Forbes.com
  forbes figures out how to make a 247 character tweet using twitter's api. works like an extended entry tag in mt for the character limited. elipsis...leading to a longer tweet. what will those kids think of next

links for 2009-07-08

• Exit Strategy NYC for iPhone, iPod Touch, Blackberry, Android(G1), and Kindle
  very excited to use this application that tells you which car to ride to get off near the right exit on the subway. My wife is a prewallking encyclopedia and I'm going to surreptitiously surprise her with some info gleaned from this app. via Kottke.org
• SHOCKER: Printing Blogs Proves To Be Poor Business
  Really? What a surprise, after such a scintillating (not really), self-confident comment thread on avc.com a week ago where he laid bare the scalability of his business....despite Fred's polite discouragement

links for 2009-07-07

• MediaPost Publications Amazon Patents Detail Kindle Advertising Model 07/07/2009
  intersting and obvious. how is this patentable? a lot of people don't seem to know that early mass-market paperbacks had ads in them too.

links for 2009-07-03

The Great American Bubble Machine : Rolling Stone - I've been spending a bit of time looking at, and thinking about Rolling Stone and what it is now. Then bam they come out with this great article.
Joan Morgan's Biography | Red Room - Where the Writers Are - Finally read my friend Joan's Bio - wow!
Gene Wojciechowski: Jim Brown wants more than charity from Tiger Woods - ESPN - "I might do that," he said. "I might actually do that. That's right, I haven't tried to call him. I should make that call. That would be respectful of him." So he wrote down the name, number and e-mail address of Woods' agent. Even double-checked the spellings. I hope Brown calls. I hope Woods answers. They have so much to learn from each other.

links for 2009-07-02

• Gene Wojciechowski: Jim Brown wants more than charity from Tiger Woods - ESPN
  "I might do that," he said. "I might actually do that. That's right, I haven't tried to call him. I should make that call. That would be respectful of him."

  So he wrote down the name, number and e-mail address of Woods' agent. Even double-checked the spellings.

  I hope Brown calls. I hope Woods answers. They have so much to learn from each other.

  
  
  
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  AdBuyer.com CEO Ogilvie Says Marketers Need Help In Audience, Price, and Messaging
  
  
  
  
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  Free Criticism, Science After Data, and Airport Books - Anil Dash
  
  
  Anil on the Gladwell vs Anderson contretemps. "I haven't had a chance to finish reading Free yet, but I am sure that these authors' books absolutely do lean more towards anecdotal evidence than statistical proof. And honestly, it's okay that these books don't necessarily follow the tenets of hard science. In many cases, they're arguing that a cultural trend is becoming true, or is about to become true, and the reality is that asserting that these trends are ascendent actually helps them come true. In short, these are books designed to create culture, presented in the guise of reporting on culture. I like that!"