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links for 2007-11-30

• Unclutterer » Archive » 2007 Gift Giving Guide: Online giving
  some ideas for gifts that don't add clutter
  (tags: gifts)
• Scrabble Word Lists
  study up for Scrabulous
  (tags: scrabble lists)
• Greendeavor: Incentive to Shop Green - Josh Spear
  review of greendeavor - anyone know what happened to this site?
  (tags: green_living)
• Popular Quizzes, Polls, Surveys & Fun Tests Online - Quibblo
  (tags: polls research tools voting)
• BBC NEWS - Eighty million years without sex
  A small animal survives without sex. The great pullquote is: There could be some benefit to millions of years without sex after all
  (tags: science news)

links for 2007-11-29

• I Don't Want To Consume Media That I Can't Interact With
  Elegant and simply put.
  (tags: social media)
• Major Media Companies Using Pluck Will Be Able To Mesh Social Nets With Facebook, OpenSocial
  (tags: media business)
• A Big List of Sites That Teach You How To Do Stuff
  if it isn't somewhere on this list there may be no way to do it.
  (tags: how-tos)

links for 2007-11-28

• Gadgets: Plasma Ball Night Light Makes Us Nostalgic For Bed Wetting
  cool nightlight for my baby and yours
  (tags: baby gadgets)

working future

Just found out that SoundaboutPhilly.com a project I conceived and led as Executive Producer for the GPTMC has won the Platinum PR Award from PR News. Cool.

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links for 2007-11-27

• My Old Bicycle—Spernicelli Biciclette:
  Wonderful collection of city bikes (also for sale)
  (tags: design cycling)
• The Alcove with Mark Molaro
  a really interesting concept with great interviews. Molaro interviews people like Naomi Wolfe posts on his site and YouTube. A kind of disintermediated Charlie Rose show.
  (tags: activism video)
• YouTube - Naomi Wolf Celebrated Author of "The End of America"
  Naomi Wolfe interviewed on Mark Molaro's Alcove show.
  (tags: video activism politics)
• Mark Ronson Remix of Dylan's 'Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine
  Was about to reedit my Dylan movie on Facebook when I noticed the tab linking to this video.
  (tags: dylan facebook)
• New York Manhole Covers, Forged Barefoot in India - New York Times
  incredible photos and a nice multimedia piece describing how the manhole covers in NYC are made by barefoot, half naked men working in a sweltering factory in India. Reminds me of Salgado's photos
  (tags: photography globalism activism)

a gift registry and secret santa site

B told me about these two sites and I thought I would share them. The first is whattogive which is an agnostic gift registry site. By agnostic I mean that you can create a registry for any kind of event and then add products both online (in a Kaboodle like way) and offline (as in writing the description to talk about the gift store around your corner). The second is a secret Santa site called elfster.com that we are using to coordinate both Hanukkah and Christmas presents this year. You sign up and like e-vite it sends you an e-mail, you sign-in, and then you draw. The site also enables some wish list creations to guide your Santas and of course it ties in with Facebook. Smart idea.

links for 2007-11-21

• Climate Change : Yahoo! Green
  (tags: activism business environment)
• The Nearly Never Ending Market for Niche Social Networks
  (tags: community socialnetworking)
• Telecommuting found to boost morale, cut stress - Boston.com

links for 2007-11-20

• Vinyl graphics for the tank of your toilet on etsy
  Very cute idea via apartmenttherapy.com
  (tags: design DIY gifts)
• Canon Lens Selection Introduction - Canon Lens Choosing is Confusing!
  I'm buying a digital SLR and am finding lens choices confusing. If you are like me then this page might help.
  (tags: photography)

links for 2007-11-16

• Fractals of Change: Thinking Aloud about e-mail and the future of e-mail
  (tags: research social e-mail)
• Winona Ryder, Vulcan - Featured on BuzzFeed
  Very funny joke about the term VILF

links for 2007-11-15

• Stuff You Didn’t Know - hedge’s house
  A great list of things I didn't know and I bet you don't either. (via Manhattan Users Guide.
  (tags: reference writing)
• Thanksgiving Cooking - great roundup of tools for the kitchen
  Turkey harness?
  (tags: coolhunting cooking)
• Movable Type Community Solution: Create a Powerful Online Community
  Awesome!!!
  (tags: community movabletype)
• Raw Replay - Revisiting History
  New video site from RawStory.com
  (tags: journalism news)

links for 2007-11-14

• My Facebook Ad Stats - (not mine but A.VC's in this interesting post
  (tags: facebook advertising)
• Apartment Therapy - AT Countdown...
  Something new is coming to Apartment Therapy in 4 days. Makeover? Announcement of the COO contest winner? "Actually, if we didn't do the countdown thing, our tech team might think that this latest (of many) deadlines was movable... posted by Maxwell on 20
  (tags: blogs design media)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Glam: The success of the network
  Really good post
• More Misplaced Glam Exhuberance
  Arrington disagrees with Jarvis.

platforms

A redefinition of platforms or at least the creation of a buzzword is in the works if glam, salesforce, and facebook are all platforms. Being a platform establishes or postions a certain mass beyond site and tool. We are a platform now.

The Blue Blazer - A fiery classic cocktail

This evening B and I taped my friend Dave making Jerry Thomas' signature drink the Blue Blazer. To make it you need to pour flaming Scotch back and forth between glasses.  Buy Dave's new book Imbibe if you haven't already. 

links for 2007-11-11

• Web game provides rice for hungry
  Article about how FreeRice.com has raised enough rice to feed 50,000 people for one day. Try it out if you haven't already.
  (tags: viral not-for-profit fundraising)

links for 2007-11-09

• Honey, Where You Been So Long?
  blog about prewar blues
  (tags: music)
• New Jersey Mansions, Now Forest Floor
  (tags: cycling environment NJ)

links for 2007-11-07

• Steven Berlin Johnson (kottke.org)
  An interview with Steven Johnson on Kottke.org. Outside.in just redesigned and introduced some very interesting things such as a graph showing frequency of posts about a location.
  (tags: blogs design internet mapping)
• NPR: Music
  (tags: Audio music npr podcast)
• Design*Sponge » a sad sponge
  Home & Garden Magazine is closing which is sad in itself but it also means that the very talented blogger designspongeonline (Grace Bonney) is out of a day job. Hopefully someone will pick her up or possibly give her blog some funding and help blow it out
  (tags: design blogs)

links for 2007-11-06

• Are social apps overhyped
  A post questioning whether social apps are this years hyped story. Six months after Facebook opened to developers, with no breakouts or monitization the question is out there.
  (tags: facebook social_media)
• There You Go Again: Orwell Comes to America
  Interesting conference at the New York Public Library
  (tags: politics journalism)

links for 2007-11-04

• John Dean writes in to TPM about the parallels of Mukasky to Richardson under Nixon
  (tags: politics)

links for 2007-11-03

• Fell guide download lets walkers wander lonely with an iPod | Travel | The Guardian
  Walk along with a grumpy guide. This sounds like an awesome walking tour.
  (tags: audiobooks walking_tours soundscapes)
• The Morning News - How to Say I Love You by Paul Ford
  100 Ways to say you Love someone
  (tags: writing Love)
• Stanford Students Present Facebook Apps to Class
  Interesting list of 25 quickly developed apps
  (tags: applications trends)

links for 2007-11-02

• Thinking about domains
  "One last bit of backward thinking: if you're looking to start an online business, consider finding a great domain and build the business around it..."
  (tags: internet marketing domains)