tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-209005622024-03-13T21:56:09.537-06:00plannerlinessa take on life|work by a few plannerly typesjoshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.comBlogger191125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-4595376817113712852009-12-01T22:44:00.002-06:002009-12-01T22:47:06.875-06:00listeningGreat thoughts from Jeremiah Owyang on listening. View it in full.<br /><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNTk3MjkwNTc*NTYmcHQ9MTI1OTcyOTA2MTMzOCZwPTEwMTkxJmQ9c3NfZW1iZWQmZz*yJm89NTYyMjczNzYyYjk5NDcwNTk3MDdkOTlhNmEyZGRlYzMmb2Y9MA==.gif" border="0" height="0" width="0" /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_2598054"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/jeremiah_owyang/evolution-the-eight-stages-of-listening" title="Evolution: The Eight Stages Of Listening">Evolution: The Eight Stages Of Listening</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=listening-091127114656-phpapp01&stripped_title=evolution-the-eight-stages-of-listening"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=listening-091127114656-phpapp01&stripped_title=evolution-the-eight-stages-of-listening" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/jeremiah_owyang">jeremiah_owyang</a>.</div></div>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-34467642098224471472009-05-11T22:13:00.002-06:002009-05-11T22:13:35.893-06:00goggle dog<div style="padding: 3px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/furnituresaleinaustin/3515765781/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3643/3515765781_ba9140b026.jpg" style="border: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); width: 401px; height: 301px;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="margin-top: 0px;font-size:0;" ><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/furnituresaleinaustin/3515765781/">goggle dog</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/furnituresaleinaustin/">joshcarlton</a>.</span></div><p>I really wish my dog would go for these.</p>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-42599312678643444422009-05-11T22:08:00.001-06:002009-05-11T22:09:58.695-06:00building brand communitiesIn web terms, it's an oldie. but still a goodie, connecting a lot of Gladwell's work to brands:<br /><br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_70688"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/smack416/building-brand-communities?type=powerpoint" title="Building Brand Communities">Building Brand Communities</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=building-brand-communities4200&stripped_title=building-brand-communities"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=building-brand-communities4200&stripped_title=building-brand-communities" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/smack416">Lee Dale</a>.</div></div>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-72131875832038815232009-04-11T13:01:00.001-06:002009-04-11T13:03:26.269-06:00burrito bunny<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbnfXwMUc86wn13oVY3lcJKHdIcKcJRQE-48x45CnylgTZ-kl6jL_krDfo3yKtnoToW5QWY-FXu3W3bys66GjLOMx-aroosVjag3WZ-UDYWq7cOWBQSLk9BGUsivhBNG27J96N/s1600-h/burritobunny.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbnfXwMUc86wn13oVY3lcJKHdIcKcJRQE-48x45CnylgTZ-kl6jL_krDfo3yKtnoToW5QWY-FXu3W3bys66GjLOMx-aroosVjag3WZ-UDYWq7cOWBQSLk9BGUsivhBNG27J96N/s400/burritobunny.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323511107714359634" border="0" /></a><br />A closed for Easter message, the Chipotle way. Brilliant.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-69197348674136578182009-03-30T19:45:00.001-06:002009-03-31T06:01:38.522-06:00the true homepagesWe had a great <a href="http://blog.federatedmedia.net/archives/2009/03/iab-course-to-b.php">speaker</a>, Peter Spande from Federated Media, come in recently and talk about homepages among other things.<br /><br />Bottom line, which seems so simple after hearing it... there's a difference between company-built sites and what people perceive as a company's website.<br /><br />Quick case... this is the <a href="http://www.rayban.com/USA/">US site that Ray-Ban built</a>. It's beautiful and has a lot of cool features/navigation/videos/etc: <div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvYJ7ewaVmtAOb25zC34T2O064gdEsbyLLrgXENJJYvng_bkOMVA8bp7H8wJ2zK-Xay9HX86ZZpqjoVQcjINsIzRC1rIowd5amMEiHdsLaCx8vORUbC_ml7FRks22jFjr08zA/s1600-h/rb2.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwvYJ7ewaVmtAOb25zC34T2O064gdEsbyLLrgXENJJYvng_bkOMVA8bp7H8wJ2zK-Xay9HX86ZZpqjoVQcjINsIzRC1rIowd5amMEiHdsLaCx8vORUbC_ml7FRks22jFjr08zA/s400/rb2.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317682775954693746" border="0" /></a><br /><br />And, <a href="http://www.google.com/search?us&q=rayban&btnG=Search">this is their homepage</a> as consumers see it:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib4LR89V_3yfjvRjiREoK03XVdRkdmRWhJQNYEyOqaJAtTF57Ad1V7K9nRuB9HkUQFg_H_2L-NOK6hh7V0sC1i4Mwwa1iRy9O-22-yDwemMWPDG6rGabPfLSp-xKeE2pMB1IVh/s1600-h/Picture+3.png" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br /></span></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9GuwaU4vK6fK2VIySlQrBKYaAOTArcLFy-JRWqDAp3iR8MVAXDgZaD1pEKWQFMfU-90PFxoN76NiWdwE4bekLJhlKjneoaF5mT7upjqOrhS6y4cuMRf4XrBknID_6h_d3gDWW/s1600-h/rb1.png"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9GuwaU4vK6fK2VIySlQrBKYaAOTArcLFy-JRWqDAp3iR8MVAXDgZaD1pEKWQFMfU-90PFxoN76NiWdwE4bekLJhlKjneoaF5mT7upjqOrhS6y4cuMRf4XrBknID_6h_d3gDWW/s400/rb1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5317681052578365506" border="0" /></span></a></div><br />This page has a link to shopping results, a random youtube video, a link to cutwater/psyop's new <a href="http://motionographer.com/theater/ray-ban-colorize/">colorize</a> campaign, and so on... this is how its customers most likely see the web when looking for Ray-Ban info.<br /><br />This is not meant to be pickin' on Ray-Ban, as this comparison can be done with many brands. Spring and sunshine are on the way so I just happen to have shades on the brain.<br /><br /></div>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-6124615542692359222009-03-26T19:28:00.003-06:002009-03-26T19:54:53.509-06:00thursday links<div>Some random thoughts/links/etc from this week so far:</div><ul><li>Need to find this article from HBR on <a href="http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/04/getting-brand-communities-right/ar/1">brand communities</a>. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">"Embrace conflict, resist the urge to control, forget opinion leaders—and build your brand." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="">Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/herdmeister">@herdmeister</a>.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"> </span></li><li><a href="http://justtv.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/to-spread-or-to-drill/">Drillable</a> media. </li><li>TMA <a href="http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/creative/news/e3ie7d1eee3b5e787af53d590084d20aebf">put</a> the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/itsthegecko">gecko on youtube</a>. (clip below)</li><li>Twitter is <a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/03/24/breakdown-twitter-federated-media-and-microsofts-sponsored-aggregation/">making money</a>! Twitter is <a href="http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/03/twitter-is-peaking.html">dead</a>! </li><li>Great piece from Ad Age on <a href="http://adage.com/digitalnext/post?article_id=135313">visualization of data</a>. </li><li><a href="http://philmoldavski.wordpress.com/2009/03/24/facebookvitaminwate/">vitamin water on facebook</a>. Looking forward to seeing how this goes over the next couple of months. It's a very cool idea to send people to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/vitaminwater">facebook.com/vitaminwater</a></li><li>This <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/sets/72157615703262704/">set of sketches</a> from sxsw on flickr is awesome. via <a href="http://www.digitaldesignblog.com/2009/03/23/sxsw-recap-in-words-and-pictures/">FEED</a>.</li><li>Seth Godin's interesting <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/a-chance-to-join-the-online-triiibe.html">approach</a> to building an exclusive community. </li><li>More BBH... this is kinda old news, but still worth a shout. This time for the Oasis "<a href="http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2009/oasis-dig-out-your-soul-in-the-streets/">Dig Out Your Soul</a>" album. (clip below).</li><li><a href="http://adage.com/article?article_id=135440">Chaos 2</a> from Garfield. </li><li>Would love to see a financially-oriented company do <a href="http://www.brandchannel.com/features_webwatch.asp?ww_id=424">something like this - mint.com</a>.</li></ul><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=50015059">Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul In The Streets</a><br /></div><div><object width="425" height="360"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="movie" value="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=50015059,t=1,mt=video"><embed src="http://mediaservices.myspace.com/services/media/embed.aspx/m=50015059,t=1,mt=video" width="425" height="360" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object></div><div><br /></div><div>Numa Numa guy with the gecko</div><div><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HItwu7PNdNo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HItwu7PNdNo&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object></div>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-70545078168457407762009-03-26T19:11:00.005-06:002009-03-26T19:27:13.625-06:00bike accidents/PTI/Today ShowI love how this kind of stuff happens and <a href="http://www.henryjenkins.org/2009/02/if_it_doesnt_spread_its_dead_p.html">spreads</a>. One of my favorite shows, PTI, mocks Matt Lauer's bike accident a couple of days ago, then Tony Kornheiser gets pulled into The Today Show this morning:<div><br /></div><div><object width="443" height="256"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/esUVYKeB9tDgMgq-9XD7dg"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/esUVYKeB9tDgMgq-9XD7dg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="443" height="256"></embed></object></div>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-25260942415632657182009-03-22T20:23:00.002-06:002009-03-22T20:27:57.435-06:00it's two things: simple + compellingAnother great presentation on users of social media and the shifts in where people are spending time. Via <a href="http://wunderkrammer.tumblr.com/post/86537622/threebillion-com">chroma</a> via <a href="http://www.threebillion.com/index.php?id=114">threebillion</a>.<br /><br /><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyMzc2Nzk1ODQ4NDcmcHQ9MTIzNzc3NDk3Njk3MiZwPTEwMTkxJmQ9Jmc9MiZ*PSZvPWVmNWU4YzNlMDk*NTQzOWY4YzkyMzRjOTNmYjY4MzQz.gif" border="0" height="0" width="0" /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_1092752"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Netpop/netpop-connect-media-shifts-to-social-2009?type=presentation" title="Netpop | Connect: Media Shifts to Social 2009 Preview">Netpop | Connect: Media Shifts to Social 2009 Preview</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=netpopresearchsmediapreview-090302205236-phpapp01&stripped_title=netpop-connect-media-shifts-to-social-2009"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=netpopresearchsmediapreview-090302205236-phpapp01&stripped_title=netpop-connect-media-shifts-to-social-2009" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/Netpop">Netpop</a>.</div></div>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-2314158744246431742009-03-22T19:50:00.004-06:002009-03-22T20:21:49.541-06:00weekly readingsAfter slowly accumulating/clicking on articles etc in twitter and other places, here's the weekly round-up:<br /><ul><li>Excellent read on big ideas <a href="http://anidea.com/strategy/rethinking-the-big-idea/">meeting two-way communications</a>.</li><li>Time + others partner to produce a <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.70cafb3720e94be3c92af2caf941a9aa.b31&show_article=1">customized weekly mag</a>. This is brilliant.<br /></li><li>Guy Kawasaki <a href="http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/12/how-to-use-twit.html#ixzz0AQZeRDF6">on twitter</a>.<br /></li><li>Getting the <a href="http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-241-285--11555-0,00.html">knee back</a> in shape.<br /></li><li>Mark Cuban on the coming <a href="http://blogmaverick.com/2009/01/27/the-great-internet-video-lie/">bandwidth issues</a>.</li><li><a href="http://adverlab.blogspot.com/2009/03/hamlet-across-new-media.html">Hamlet</a> in new media. I got a message back from one of the <a href="http://www.richmondshakespeareblog.blogspot.com/">Richmond Shakespeare</a> folks with another one by Ophelia: "Ophelia likes flowers. Flowers, flowers, flowers. Oh look! A river........ Ophelia is no longer online."<br /></li><li>Continuing the Shakespeare thing... <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5005557/Academic-discovers-six-works-by-William-Shakespeare.html">six new works</a> by the Bard?</li><li>Interesting - kashi has a <a href="http://www.kashi.com/login">community section of its site</a>.<br /></li><li>Feel so behind. Just found <a href="http://bmorrissey.typepad.com/brianmorrissey/">Brian Morrissey</a> this week.<br /></li><li>Helping <a href="http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=135088">displays ads</a> get better.<br /></li><li>Bands still seem to be one step ahead of everyone else. This <a href="http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/dan-macsai/popwise/no-doubt-s-new-marketing-strategy-buy-one-concert-ticket-get-our-entire-cata">idea from No Doubt</a> is outstanding.<br /></li><li>More <a href="http://socialmediatoday.com/SMC/80437">tools/ideas</a> for twitter. Thanks <a href="http://twitter.com/definetigers">@definetigers</a>.<br /></li><li>Focus groups are <a href="http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=102374">dead</a>?<br /></li><li>Ad age: <a href="http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=135280">playtime is over</a> for social media.<br /></li><li>Read if you have 15 mins... long piece on <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/22/why-advertising-is-failing-on-the-internet/">web advertising</a>, but thought-provoking, from TechCrunch. </li></ul>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-16797762122398315812009-03-17T11:25:00.003-06:002009-03-17T11:27:37.725-06:00couldn't have said it better<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3582/3346474009_2c36f23e30.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 401px; height: 301px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3582/3346474009_2c36f23e30.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />Finally catching up on reading <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Here-Comes-Everybody-Organizing-Organizations/dp/0143114948/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237310814&sr=8-1">Here Comes Everybody</a> by Shirky. It's fantastic - chock full of simple ways to capture what's happening right now, like the last sentence here.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-121196183944147552009-03-15T23:16:00.009-06:002009-03-16T08:04:53.942-06:00linksHere are a bunch of links that I've been meaning to pull together. I've tested the firefox save feature to it's last limit by keeping a lot of these perpetually open the last week or so:<br /><ul><li>If it doesn't spread it's dead - <a href="http://blog.futurelab.net/2009/03/if_it_doesnt_spread_its_dead.html">brilliant thinking</a> from Henry Jenkins et al. If only I could stop time to read all 8 part. A coast-to-coast plane flight would do the trick. </li><li>This is what BW's audience is <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/managing/content/mar2009/ca2009038_020385.htm">reading</a> about twitter (and the skittles situation). </li><li>Fairly-recent (within last yr) <a href="http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/05/02/a-chonology-of-brands-that-got-punkd-by-social-media/">list of brands punk'd within social</a> media. </li><li>As much as I cringe with every Bracketology mention, this time of <a href="http://sports-ak.espn.go.com/ncb/tournament/bracket">year</a> still <a href="http://www.fannation.com/si_blogs/tourney/posts/57421-twenty-thoughts-on-selection-sunday">rocks</a> to be a sports fan. </li><li>New mobile app <a href="http://adage.com/digitalnext/article?article_id=134258">nearbynow</a> puts <a href="http://nearbynow.com/home/">real-world goods</a> into peoples' hands quicker and more efficiently. </li><li>Great interview with MotiveQuest's Tom O'Brien re: <a href="http://www.globalsocialmedianetwork.com/?tag=mini-cooper">truly listening</a> to what your customers are saying online, and making meaning out of it. </li><li>Wharton asks us is <a href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2172">capitalism working</a>?<br /></li><li>And, <a href="http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/bigshift/2009/02/why-do-companies-exist.html">why</a> do companies exist in the first place.</li><li>From Oct '08, but still <a href="http://www.zeusjones.com/blog/2008/message-v-subject-execution-v-idea/">great thinking</a>. Again from Zeus.<br /></li><li>My <a href="http://dma-echo.org/index.jsp">life</a> for the next couple of weeks.</li><li><a href="http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2169">Free</a>. Another good preview of the coming book.<br /></li><li>For my vcu students. How to <a href="http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/watkins/2007/04/how_to_think_strategically_1.html?loomia_ow=t0:a38:g26:r6:c0.0096634971918:b22284290">think strategically</a>.<br /></li><li>Last twitter mention here. <a href="http://www.toprankblog.com/2009/03/twitter-user-discovery/">How to find companies</a>... pretty helpful list.</li></ul>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-32774879318475577232009-03-15T22:48:00.004-06:002009-03-16T08:06:35.692-06:00the slideshare sevenI'm about to crash firefox for the 11th time tonight, so thought I'd put up a few links to a few fantastic presentations that have been stretching my brain recently... in a good way. Some old, some new:<br /><br />1. Gareth's <a href="http://garethkay.typepad.com/brand_new/2009/03/the-future-is-bright-and-its-in-richmond.html">talk at VCU</a> a few wks back:<br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_1088746"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/garethk/vcufeb09?type=powerpoint" title="Vcufeb09">Vcufeb09</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=vcufeb09-090301223054-phpapp02&stripped_title=vcufeb09"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=vcufeb09-090301223054-phpapp02&stripped_title=vcufeb09" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/garethk">garethk</a>.</div></div><br />2. Great stuff from Bud Caddell - "Digital Media Isn't Mass Media for Cheap":<br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_1119837"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/bud_caddell/digital-media-isnt-mass-media-for-cheap?type=presentation" title="Digital Media isn't Mass Media for Cheap">Digital Media isn't Mass Media for Cheap</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=bcsocialmediamassmediav1-0-090308225902-phpapp01&stripped_title=digital-media-isnt-mass-media-for-cheap"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=bcsocialmediamassmediav1-0-090308225902-phpapp01&stripped_title=digital-media-isnt-mass-media-for-cheap" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/bud_caddell">Bud Caddell</a>.</div></div><br />3. More from Bud:<br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_1039470"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/bud_caddell/the-fan-economy-becoming-fan-focused?type=presentation" title="The Fan Economy: Becoming Fan Focused">The Fan Economy: Becoming Fan Focused</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=bcfansbrandsv13-1-1234904975534541-1&stripped_title=the-fan-economy-becoming-fan-focused"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=bcfansbrandsv13-1-1234904975534541-1&stripped_title=the-fan-economy-becoming-fan-focused" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/bud_caddell">Bud Caddell</a>.</div></div><br /><br />4. An oldie but goodie:<br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_28886"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff/the-brand-gap?type=powerpoint" title="The Brand Gap">The Brand Gap</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=the-brand-gap-14630&stripped_title=the-brand-gap"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=the-brand-gap-14630&stripped_title=the-brand-gap" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/coolstuff">coolstuff</a>.</div></div><br /><br /><br />5. Happiness + Brands (read: games)<br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_684849"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/avantgame/the-rise-of-the-happiness-brands-presentation?type=powerpoint" title="The Rise of the Happiness Brands">The Rise of the Happiness Brands</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=mcgonigalbrandoct08-1224764160799358-8&stripped_title=the-rise-of-the-happiness-brands-presentation"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=mcgonigalbrandoct08-1224764160799358-8&stripped_title=the-rise-of-the-happiness-brands-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/avantgame">avantgame</a>.</div></div><br /><br />6. Social networks will be like air:<br /><div style="width: 425px; text-align: left;" id="__ss_946988"><a style="margin: 12px 0pt 3px; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; display: block; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/the-future-of-social-networks-presentation?type=presentation" title="The Future Of Social Networks">The Future Of Social Networks</a><object style="margin: 0px;" height="355" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sfama-12209-1232733566144121-2&stripped_title=the-future-of-social-networks-presentation"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=sfama-12209-1232733566144121-2&stripped_title=the-future-of-social-networks-presentation" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="355" width="425"></embed></object><div style="font-size: 11px; font-family: tahoma,arial; height: 26px; padding-top: 2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli">Charlene Li</a>.</div></div><br />7.Marketing as a service. From Zeus Jones. Thanks @<a href="http://twitter.com/ryeclifton">ryclifton</a><br /><div style="width:425px;text-align:left" id="__ss_67902"><a style="font:14px Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif;display:block;margin:12px 0 3px 0;text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/zeusjones/zeus-jones-credentials?type=presentation" title="Zeus Jones Credentials">Zeus Jones Credentials</a><object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=zeus-jones-credentials4821&stripped_title=zeus-jones-credentials" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="http://static.slideshare.net/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=zeus-jones-credentials4821&stripped_title=zeus-jones-credentials" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><div style="font-size:11px;font-family:tahoma,arial;height:26px;padding-top:2px;">View more <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/">presentations</a> from <a style="text-decoration:underline;" href="http://www.slideshare.net/zeusjones">Zeus Jones</a>.</div></div>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-54712583118093750302009-03-15T22:09:00.002-06:002009-03-15T23:12:38.071-06:00rolling rockFor my money, this Rolling Rock case from Goodby is one of the new classic cases of planning that was involved in launching interesting, participatory ideas into culture:<br /><br /><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MFWWFrjSWtc&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MFWWFrjSWtc&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"></embed></object>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-80498792398802652732008-09-25T18:47:00.002-06:002008-09-25T18:53:46.930-06:00wario shakes it up<a href="http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii">This</a> is just amazing. Completely unexpected and infinitely watchable.<br /><br />Would love to know who the genius minds were behind it.<br /><br />And for some laughs, the classic gizmodo post on a <a href="http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/the-japanese-wii-safety-manual-is-crazy-219119.php">Japanese Wii Safety Manual</a> always comes through.<br /><br /><br />thanks to <a href="http://www.adrants.com/2008/09/wii-and-youtube-rock-the-video-world.php">adrants</a> for the Wario tip.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-71743603110315034502008-09-16T19:22:00.006-06:002009-03-15T23:14:15.065-06:00radio silence<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/994941366_2f4aa29b4e.jpg?v=0"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 380px; height: 394px;" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1283/994941366_2f4aa29b4e.jpg?v=0" alt="" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />So it turns out that a blog is not the best thing to manage with an infant and a move to Richmond all in a few months' time.<br /><br />Back in Feb we were a little too zealous with the "we're back"... and since then the site has struggled to keep on the top of mind and top of effort. But, it just can't sit here and die without one last hurrah. Starting with this one. Hi Mom, again.<br /><br /><br />photo from flickr user <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/hinkelstone/994941366/">hinkelstone</a>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-7509433256971251572008-02-13T10:40:00.004-06:002008-02-13T12:17:54.669-06:00vote for feet!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyscA8LgGdvygcn_i9xCHrYNgUaS_NqLaOP2W6snwOidHDH9lsotnp9HMKcya1wc1RC7MUuvx4A0f2hIuEyQZNZsZ5c3TowjSSe1I-UcwPIuOlZK9Ahzxix63vfVD_edhSiP0T/s1600-h/feet.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyscA8LgGdvygcn_i9xCHrYNgUaS_NqLaOP2W6snwOidHDH9lsotnp9HMKcya1wc1RC7MUuvx4A0f2hIuEyQZNZsZ5c3TowjSSe1I-UcwPIuOlZK9Ahzxix63vfVD_edhSiP0T/s400/feet.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166505830712472274" border="0" /></a><br />It's the voting season... I entered one of our baby pics (above) into a <a href="http://freshpeel.com/2008/02/creativity-contest-the-polls-are-open-let-the-voting-begin/">creativity contest on the marketing fresh peel</a>.<br /><br />If you like the pic, we could <a href="http://www.freshpeel.com/Creativity-Contest/index.php">use your vote here</a>. (keep hitting refresh or vote on the other pics and happy feet will come up at some point).<br /><br />The prize is a lot of pride and a <a href="http://www.metamemes.com/">metamemes</a> ThinkCube, so I'll post a rvw of it up here if this contest works out in my favor.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-79482569587788752092008-02-10T22:14:00.000-06:002008-02-10T22:18:57.292-06:00conversations<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GPadBjjMRyv9xw32SdtqwiSOpNbPowk5ebwiJnqTRmG0lfft2hR2mn7EAuKzn2Xirk9xKquxAFsHefRceEFC6hcpke9aP9PBHYWU6kXxFBdwss6vbh0cIlj25l0SitHcUAtO/s1600-h/publicbuildings.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4GPadBjjMRyv9xw32SdtqwiSOpNbPowk5ebwiJnqTRmG0lfft2hR2mn7EAuKzn2Xirk9xKquxAFsHefRceEFC6hcpke9aP9PBHYWU6kXxFBdwss6vbh0cIlj25l0SitHcUAtO/s400/publicbuildings.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165571537886638786" border="0" /></a><br />- architect David Adjaye, in <a href="http://www.dwell.com/">dwell</a>.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-32113658590541448662008-02-10T12:56:00.000-06:002008-02-10T22:20:49.528-06:00scrabble vs. scrabble<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTlFth0FcO-tFF19tbo8bXhmqpV86zYu4RgPuq56KeZoisggOTIkxNHSbAmzsLiZ4EHQ5QOnBQemZgeMIKPEcU28pBGHSQXuV9zize3rORsFltq_mkgbswyImixOmz0GgNoddB/s1600-h/scrab.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTlFth0FcO-tFF19tbo8bXhmqpV86zYu4RgPuq56KeZoisggOTIkxNHSbAmzsLiZ4EHQ5QOnBQemZgeMIKPEcU28pBGHSQXuV9zize3rORsFltq_mkgbswyImixOmz0GgNoddB/s400/scrab.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165565954429153970" border="0" /></a><br />I've been involved in some long and drawn-out games of will with some folks in facebook. The game of choice is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabulous">scrabulous</a>. It's highly addictive and everything about it screams scrabble and (you saw this coming 8 miles away...) the hasbro ownership of the original scrabble game are <a href="http://techland.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2008/01/11/will-someone-please-start-a-facebook-group-to-save-scrabulous/">not happy</a> with the application/game's soaring popularity on facebook.<br /><br />As of Jan 11, '08, scrabulous had gained 2.3 million users. So it looks like the free ride may soon be over. In some ways this smells of Napster. Hasbro could learn what not to do from the RIAA - instead of making facebook take the application out, capitalize on it. Josh Quittner at Fortune proposes Hasbro seep in and buy scrabulous, which should only be the beginning.<br /><br />Hasbro - 2.3 million people and counting are telling you that they're happy playing scrabble. Take advantage of the social connections the game allows and figure out if people want to play off-line - hold campus events, figure out a way to connect on- and off-line play(wifi scrabble boards)... just do something.<br /><br />I can't imagine the lawsuit route is an approach <a href="http://www.cranium.com/">Cranium</a> would use.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-84702837793761034112008-02-06T13:30:00.000-06:002008-02-06T20:54:33.433-06:00long time no seeThis post has been one of the toughest I've sat down to write since we started about 2 yrs ago... a huge helping of inertia.<br /><br />A lot happens being away for 5 months. A lot meaning that Andrea and I welcomed our first child into the world a few weeks back. What an overwhelming feeling of joy to see her being born. It was indescribable... the prior doubts (are we ready? no, really, are we ready for this??) went away in a flash after hearing that first cry in the delivery room.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZcPQfqX7fXkwlZg0Rt0PR7HKMG5gWLpD4v4tYjBUb28Y1Q-ozj0i-ImKfQGC2fkdeydeNOXop5lXAWJZ7KZCdem4Vx8_k2ymD0IyrEUZgXiKibtBVxU5NyCJA40DRm7bLCXSN/s1600-h/runningeva.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZcPQfqX7fXkwlZg0Rt0PR7HKMG5gWLpD4v4tYjBUb28Y1Q-ozj0i-ImKfQGC2fkdeydeNOXop5lXAWJZ7KZCdem4Vx8_k2ymD0IyrEUZgXiKibtBVxU5NyCJA40DRm7bLCXSN/s400/runningeva.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5163986426624094514" border="0" /></a><br />Anyways, I used the time leading up to Eva's birth as water for the ever-burning fire that is a blog not posted to in a really long time... So, we're back on air. For what hopes to be another solid amount of time. Hi Mom.<br /><br />I've got a few thoughts scribbled down in between the diaper times that need to be typed up. And this may eventually morph into a different page or site... who knows. This is a start.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-85588142996347692972007-08-29T20:43:00.001-06:002007-08-29T20:53:55.303-06:00can't make this stuff up<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUsszVDRPEigjGkyP3kH0zysfye6Z5JhBffsv8e1ECGx7qFyBKgVoL86je2Ieedx-QgIu-n7sP4MTfVAz1oUVY4mkhD-ly-3JVomJPftVNQ589CvuKQlOZ6JcrpCF9bDAHDKv/s1600-h/251848989_e7006422d4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFUsszVDRPEigjGkyP3kH0zysfye6Z5JhBffsv8e1ECGx7qFyBKgVoL86je2Ieedx-QgIu-n7sP4MTfVAz1oUVY4mkhD-ly-3JVomJPftVNQ589CvuKQlOZ6JcrpCF9bDAHDKv/s400/251848989_e7006422d4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5104320490979700882" border="0" /></a><br />I can't wait for college football season to kick off this weekend. Saturdays are just amazing this time of year. And on a related note, this sounds like it should be out of the onion, but sadly it's not -- remember to <a href="http://www.nbc5i.com/sports/13968715/detail.html?rss=dfw&psp=news">keep the burnt orange at home</a> when in Oklahoma City.<br /><br><br><br>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-58562166702611032562007-08-03T10:42:00.001-06:002007-08-03T15:55:43.823-06:00handles<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxbzVF1wvp5zO5zcqHvR7goZcMrbiFSbqTAGPqPT8r26ZpzA-WwrxgYFVD-jOZT5P0x2vAu_QGxe-9Lja7maZNjjZn2RnUVtstHNJcpK-yDZt6hQZcKRGn4C9usZLtDZHYYmF/s1600-h/998029491_fdbd5b3a82.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxbzVF1wvp5zO5zcqHvR7goZcMrbiFSbqTAGPqPT8r26ZpzA-WwrxgYFVD-jOZT5P0x2vAu_QGxe-9Lja7maZNjjZn2RnUVtstHNJcpK-yDZt6hQZcKRGn4C9usZLtDZHYYmF/s400/998029491_fdbd5b3a82.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094518597528869250" border="0" /></a>John, this blog's co-author, lives/works in Texas so it was a nice surprise to hang out for a night in DC this week a couple evenings ago. While we were chatting over a beer at fado we noticed the Miller Lite tap (on the far left, hard to see... camera phone pic) was about 1/2-1/3 the size of all the other taps. Blue Moon even has their own nifty silver pipe.<br /><br />We started talking about this and - if we were Miller's people we'd be upset about this presentation. The half-sized tap handle implies a half-decent beer, vs. the other more elegant handles. Those other beers are a notch above Lite, but even Yuengling (which I believe is a notch above the others), another domestic, doubles their handle size. Maybe they're trying to imply the low calorie count.<br /><br />Then I took the picture and played around in <a href="http://www.picnik.com/">picnik</a> which I don't think we've talked about before here. It's a great (+ free) online image editor, integrates with your flickr/facebook accounts and more, and offers a lot of basic photo editing. Very convenient for those sometimes-ugly camera phone shots.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsf-DdkDCJFZPbf8TtUL3FW2NMYZCPIIn-ypBE2GiDk0fZvFZt8anrXh-mdbt9CzIs2S6tBTKu1ul3a3_sFqZF1xg-jYnp1daVs2gEWE8NBjGqg1V3mlbbOBDROwqOIQ0e_scf/s1600-h/997946953_fe32b0e5e0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsf-DdkDCJFZPbf8TtUL3FW2NMYZCPIIn-ypBE2GiDk0fZvFZt8anrXh-mdbt9CzIs2S6tBTKu1ul3a3_sFqZF1xg-jYnp1daVs2gEWE8NBjGqg1V3mlbbOBDROwqOIQ0e_scf/s400/997946953_fe32b0e5e0.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5094517300448745842" border="0" /></a>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-9098592001916249932007-07-26T19:28:00.000-06:002007-07-26T14:18:07.728-06:00hodgepodgeI'm feeling a lot more relaxed these days. Must be the upcoming time off in about a week and the fact that the recent new business rush has lightened up.<br /><br />A few random links of note for today...<br /><ul><li><a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/08/06/100141309/index.htm?postversion=2007072506">Interview</a> with Jim Buckmaster - craigslist CEO. This makes me love the site even more, and they've helped me sell and buy dozens of things - concert/sports tickets, furniture, tvs and gadgets, etc<br /></li><li>On David Beckham's <a href="http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/david_beckham_no_longer">insurance policy</a> - from the onion<br /></li><li>Map of <a href="http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/storysupplement/worldinternet/index.htm">world Internet usage</a> - helps provide a little perspective</li><li>An inspirational place to play - <a href="http://www.shelsilverstein.com/html/home.html">ShelSilverstein.com</a></li><li>Picnik.com is getting some <a href="http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070726/now-its-a-picnik-to-edit-your-photos-using-a-web-program/">positive press love</a> from Walt Mossberg of the WSJ<br /></li><li>The site <a href="http://www.trendio.com/frontpage.php?language=en">trendio.com</a> - a way to buy shares in what's going to be talked about in the news</li><li><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cattledrive27jul27,0,1539699.story?coll=la-home-center">Surfing cows</a> in Orange County, CA... quotes like this should only be allowed in articles from the onion:<br /></li><ul><li style="font-style: italic;">"Organizers also took special precautions to make sure no one expecting to build a sandcastle instead happened upon a cow pie.<br /><br />A 10-member group of yellow-vested pooper scoopers followed behind the herd, raking, shoveling up and spraying down any place where the steers had made their mark.<br /><br />'Someone's gotta do it,' Reymundo Dominguez said. 'I guess this is just our time.'"</li></ul></ul>joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-17941084119754651522007-07-20T14:25:00.001-06:002007-07-20T14:32:03.101-06:00simpsonizer<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhDfBidrh57hKdiYF7KQDZDiuASQJmwWcU9otozHpUjYBG8VeYasYCQMrw2k83n0vPCuNocGIXp6kiCFMvexr1N_KE4EAaeDsnO0Q-REPmwTUz29l3qTXp5AR7ZvK0spUl6yy/s1600-h/simpsonized.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhDfBidrh57hKdiYF7KQDZDiuASQJmwWcU9otozHpUjYBG8VeYasYCQMrw2k83n0vPCuNocGIXp6kiCFMvexr1N_KE4EAaeDsnO0Q-REPmwTUz29l3qTXp5AR7ZvK0spUl6yy/s400/simpsonized.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5089379555475617602" border="0" /></a><br /><br />The Simpsons movie marketing has been everywhere in recent days, but I can't resists linking through to this, the <a href="http://www.simpsonizeme.com/index.php">Simpsonizer</a>. I Simpsonized myself and went to hang out at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant.<br /><br />Hat tip to the wonderful <span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span><a href="http://photojojo.com/content/websites/simpsonize-me/">Photojojo</a> newsletter.<br /><br />enjoy.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-34256022837217741052007-07-10T23:56:00.000-06:002007-07-11T00:09:20.034-06:00not cardbored<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtxk7VJHuMkM28ZLW5dly2U-sNrF7Kim7PN21sdkTBduutV4Y5880RzwgndkjSkMGMYZkZhfAdP4O2yCUY1K1yYvLqnca-QwfgtG7VQn4ok3v5SatkwOYEpr9Uf5izQNO9yZP/s1600-h/fold.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZtxk7VJHuMkM28ZLW5dly2U-sNrF7Kim7PN21sdkTBduutV4Y5880RzwgndkjSkMGMYZkZhfAdP4O2yCUY1K1yYvLqnca-QwfgtG7VQn4ok3v5SatkwOYEpr9Uf5izQNO9yZP/s400/fold.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085816423804137714" border="0" /></a><br /><a href="http://www.dwell.com/">Dwell</a> pointed me to this <a href="http://www.foldschool.com/">funky site</a> that has downloadable patterns to make chairs and stools out of cardboard. I haven't tried it yet, but have a big ceiling fan box that will probably end up being used as a chair this weekend or next.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20900562.post-81391731013395338762007-07-02T06:48:00.000-06:002007-07-02T06:54:47.396-06:00the aquapods have landed<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkmnsQttfb9GUycDD_-XG4Kihs5yNO9bGp2txR3GRX1i53PqgXG7ZbXkcY7U-aZcmfShvzDQHUBXNJem96qIbgBtgZwij_g0MFP0QPG3Nnm3V24iono7KcErzSE1KfKPdnOQdY/s1600-h/pod.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkmnsQttfb9GUycDD_-XG4Kihs5yNO9bGp2txR3GRX1i53PqgXG7ZbXkcY7U-aZcmfShvzDQHUBXNJem96qIbgBtgZwij_g0MFP0QPG3Nnm3V24iono7KcErzSE1KfKPdnOQdY/s400/pod.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5082580694227579106" border="0" /></a><br />This "Aquapod" has to be one of the coolest bottled water packages yet. And it's made by Deer Park, no less. Just shows how changing the status quo in packaging can make a product more attractive/memorable - it's the same water in there as everyone else, just doesn't seem like it.<br /><br />I'm sure this is meant more for kids in the same vein as Heinz green ketchup, and I think they've actually succeeded in making bottled water less boring.joshcarltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00656922575400922228noreply@blogger.com0