Category: design

Sick day = blog catch-up day

I’ve been fighting an upper respiratory infection all week long, and today I’m staying home in hopes of sending this bug to its death.

But I can’t seem to sleep, daytime TV is too dull for words (except for a showing of A Mighty Wind on Comedy Central this morning), and I’ve got several neglected RSS feeds in need of a severe pruning.

Plus, it’s been a long time been a long time been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely time since I blogged. (For the previous sentence, blame the Sudafed. And too much Led Zeppelin during my formative years.) Anyway, it all adds up to lots of contextless links for your point-and-click pleasure:

A del.icio.us list of iconic icons for web design, courtesy of Seth Meranda.

cheeseburger-in-can-blog.jpgI Can Has Cheeseburger!. In a can, even. Yes, it’s true. Just what the world’s been waiting for, right? Right? Via Snark Hunting.

Wired‘s interactive life cycle of a blog post will just warm the cockles of any bloggeek’s heart. Via (dis)information architecture.

$100 for a link on Digg’s front page? A new low in online marketing?

Meet the new web influentials. They’re not necessarily the most people-connected, but rather the “people who influence the network by leveraging the most powerful force on the web — the link. So says Publishing 2.0. (Note to self: More contextless links in the future.)

Hidden mysteries of marketing revealed! Anita Campbell, editor of Small Business Marketing Trends, asked a bunch of A-list marketing gurus to share their best-kept marketing secrets, and they obliged. A bunch of lesser lights also shared their tips in the comments. Lots of good ideas here. Link via Chris Brown’s Branding and Marketing.

seth_godin_action_figure_6.jpgWhile we’re on the subject of marketing gurus…no aspiring marketer should be without the Seth Godin Action Figure. Now with built-in BrandOMatic © and PurplePower ©. Via the man himself.

Use Hey!Spread to upload several videos at once.

Digital Perspective asks: What kind of tech user are you? And then links to ways to find out. Say hello to an omnivore (according to this Pew Internet quiz).

The rise of open-source mega-universities. “The world’s top universities have come late to the world of online education, but they’re arriving at last, creating an all-you-can eat online buffet of information. And mostly, they are giving it away.”

All the presidents’ blogs. Bob Johnson updates his list of college and university presidents who blog. There are 32 in all.

OK, folks. Sudafed’s wearing off. Time to go.

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Now playing: Cat Power – Lord, Help The Poor & Needy
via FoxyTunes

Friday Five (more or less): end-of-07 edition

Before the year gets away from us, let me link you up with a final Friday Five — now with even more bloggable marketing/branding/tech/PR goodness than usual.

  • LogoLounge looks at the Logo trends of 2007 and notes that “logo design has become a public sport.” Boy, don’t I know it. Via BoingBoing.
  • 11 ways to get new RSS subscribers. Great ideas. I don’t think I do any of them. Then again, I don’t have a lot of RSS subscribers.
  • Blog it but don’t flog it. Insight into how traditional ad/PR agencies try to co-opt true viral marketing with their own versions. “Viral campaigns are multiplying for the same reason as branded entertainment: the urgency among advertisers to find alternative ways to reach jaded, distracted consumers as technologies such as DVRs and iPods make it easier to avoid conventional pitches.” Via Anne Elizabeth Moore.
  • Media 2008 is a mix – get mixing, in which Chris Brogan deconstructs iEllie.

    iEllie has pictures and podcasts and Flickr and tons and tons of production just packed into this page. She’s creating all the time, and using the various formats interchangeably. This gives you a sense of the mix culture. It’s not a blog. It’s not a podcast. She’s making something and it doesn’t NEED a name because there’s a payload.

  • Teens and Social Media, another insightful report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. “The survey found that content creation is not just about sharing creative output; it is also about participating in conversations fueled by that content.” Hat tip: SquaredPeg.
  • 10 marketing resolutions for 2008, from Church of the Customer.
  • B.L. Ochman shares Time magazine’s top 10 viral videos of 2007, as reported by MSNBC’s Countdown.
  • Attention, trendspotters: Here are 80 trends to watch in 2008. They include Facebook suicide (dropping out of Facebook, not actual suicide), eco-fatigue, the Gphone (Google’s answer to Apple’s iPhone) and higher education online. Alas, one of those listed, Benazir Bhutto, was assassinated shortly after the list came out. Link via Clickz News Blog.
  • Top 10 “tangible” (maybe) PR ideas, from The|Intangibles.

    • Happy New Year.

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    Now playing: Angelique Kidjo – Ae Ae
    via FoxyTunes