Category: humor

Of Boing Boing, taglines, Facebook and Paris Hilton: a Thursday afternoon cache cleaning

Contextless links:

Our university’s most popular summer camp made the blog big time today with a mention on the world-famous Boing Boing. Goodie for us. Naturally, we blogged about it and linked to a relevant YouTube video.

paris_hilton.jpgThat’s Professor Paris to you, bub. Paris Hilton has been offered a cool million bucks to teach a one-hour “How to Build Your Brand” seminar. She’s also given an exclusive interview to People magazine.

All Facebook, all the time. Jeff Jarvis brings us the unofficial Facebook blog.

Not enough Facebook for ya? Check out Facebook in 40 years.

Tips for writing taglines: from the L.A. Times and Igor, via Snark Hunting.

How to build a social media strategy. Some good pointers, based on real case studies from real companies, with a link to where you can get the full report, or chapter-by-chapter summaries.

Strumpette puts PR in perspective. Now this is a good end-of-day read. All I can say is, I’m glad I don’t work for a toothpaste company today.

Bloggers who make me think

thinker.jpgI tried to resist the meme. Honestly, I did. But the allure of the five bloggers who make me think pass-along was just to great. And, since Karine Joly was kind enough to include this blog in her top-five list, I felt obliged to keep this meme alive.

Before I share my five, I should say that I don’t always want to think when I’m surfing blogs. At least, I don’t always want to think hard. I’m usually looking for entertainment, or snarky commentary. But, when I am in the mood for thinking, here are some bloggers I can trust to usually get the mental juices flowing:

  1. crazymonkey. I don’t read Greek, which makes crazymonkey very difficult to comprehend. But the site employs lots of pictures and the occasional English phrases, and the links are usually mentally stimulating. Sure wish I knew what the monkey was saying, though.
  2. Andy Shaidlin’s blog, alumni futures, because it makes me think about alumni stuff.
  3. Michael Stoner’s mStoner blog. Typically thoughtful posts from a thoughtful guy whose photo makes him look even more thoughtful.
  4. A recent find: American Copywriter. Read today’s entry and I think you’ll get why I’ve got a crush on this blog.
  5. Snark Hunting. A blog all about naming and branding. I read this a lot during the past several months as our campus went through the angst of changing our 43-year-old name.

There’s plenty of other thoughtful blogs out there, but in keeping with the letter as well as the spirit of the meme, I’m sticking with those five.