December 2007
Food Prices Set to Soar in 2008 →
For cash-strapped consumers already beset by higher gasoline prices and escalating mortgage rates, the hits just keep on coming. This time, it’s food. For the 1st time in modern history it might be cheaper to eat out than to cook at home.
The RIAA is right →
I see a lot of you are pissed off at the RIAA for saying that you can’t rip your own CDs.
Me? I think they are right.
Why?
1. Cause no one should copy Britney Spears, not to mention listen to her. The RIAA is doing us a service by making sure we don’t listen to her.
2. Because no one should be allowed to use music how they want. For instance, I hate using a CD player. Why? That requires me...
Digital Picture Frame Questions →
Who doesn’t have a digital picture frame these days? Steve in Waterford, MI is a new initiate…
I was introduced to Digital Picture Frames this Christmas when my daughter and her husband gave my wife and I a small Digital Picture Frame. Having said that, I have purchased a 4 gig card and will start to fill that up for my wife to display in our living room.
My hobby is photography and I have a...
How to read Twitter DMs like Email →
Michelle Wolverton asked this tricky question:
How can I forward Twitter DMs (direct messages) automagically so I can receive them like email?
The answer is: a series of tubes! Pipes, actually. Here’s how to do it.
First, you’ll need three things. A Twitter account, a Yahoo Pipes account, and a Google Reader account. Start by investigating which kinds of Twitter messages you want to manage like...
Zen and the Art of Item Replacement →
My family has only one television in the house, and it is primarily used for playing Wii games. It’s an enormous, extremely heavy old 32″ television, bought when I was in college and now approaching ten years old. In all four corners, the screen has begun to turn faintly blue, and it shows up particularly well on a white screen, as the cloudiness covers a good portion of the screen.
Not too long...
Digital Media Use Increases 50% for Consumers. ... →
A survey conducted by Deloitte & Touche shows that of 2,081 consumers questioned, 38% watch television shows online, while 36% use their cell phones as entertainment devices, and 45% are creating online content such as websites, videos and blogs. The study, which was conducted between October 25-31 for American consumers, aims to look at the advertising potential of the web, television, and...
Using Linkify to Make Linking to Others Easier →
In this post Matt Cutts from MattCutts.com (and Google) shares what he did in 2007 that improved his blog the most.
The shortest, easiest thing I started doing was using linkify.
You just highlight some text and click the bookmarklet to open Google’s search results. Pick the result you wanted and click “create link” and the hyperlink is pasted into your text form.
Since I’ve been using...
Changing Analog Behavior in a Digital World -... →
This is a theme that i’ve talked about in the past, how consumers have embraced digital technology but at the same time are still very much engaged in analog behavior. For example, look at the transition from analog to digital cameras. And yet, many consumers still print out their photos at 4x6 or 5x7 and store them in albums or shoe boxes. Analog behavior in a digital world. It’s...
Preparing for a recession →
By Philip Brewer
I don’t know if a recession is coming. Nobody does. We may dodge the bullet for a while. On the other hand, the economy may already be in recession. You don’t need to know the future, though, to make some wise moves.
Recessions hit everybody differently, so we’ll take a look at how things tend to play out for people in different situations. First, though, it...
Supercharge Your Scheduling with GCal [Feature] →
There’s no better time to develop your scheduling habit than the start of a new year, and few tools are as easy to pick up and get productive with as Google Calendar. While you can quickly get from beginner to black belt scheduler with just the web interface, the real value in GCal is that it’s accessible no matter where you are—work, play, or the grocery store—and can help you...
Should you share your own blog with Shared Items? →
Bryan Person heard about it from Marketing Over Coffee and thinks it’s a good idea, as do his two commenters. Bill Deys wrote about it too.
Scoble refuses to not do it:
“My link blog is for keeping what I think are the most important RSS items of the day, including mine.”
The positive side of doing it is that you’re potentially pushing your blog into more people’s RSS readers. The only negative...
10 marketing resolutions for 2008 →
What might marketers and entrepreneurs tackle in 2008? Here’s one list, in no particular order. 1. Vow to do more attracting than selling. To use a high school analogy: Be the charismatic kid with a winning smile, a charming personality and a good dose of humility. Don’t be the tard who farts and throws firecrackers at cats in that desperate vein of “Look at me! Look at...
Zenwalk 5.0 beta is available for testing →
Filed under: OS Updates, News, Linux, Open Source, Beta
We have a confession to make. We are secretly, deeply, head over heels in love with Zenwalk Linux. Zenwalk is a Slackware-based distro. It’s lightweight, it’s modern, and though it may not be the easiest distribution to install, we’ve certainly had worse experiences. Zenwalk 5.0 beta was released for testing yesterday. The...
Dear Secret Santa →
Dear Secret Santa,
Today I was very frustrated. I agreed to join a Secret Santa gift exchange weeks ago with some social media types on Twitter. When I got the name of the person I was supposed to gift to, she wasn’t someone I knew, followed, read, or whatever.
I immediately started following her on twitter, subscribed to her blog on Google Reader and even went back over her last couple of...