• Home
  • Idea Book

Archive for January, 2008

Notes on The Coffee Shop and The Blogosphere

January 27th, 2008

Lee Siegle sits down with the WSJ.com to talk about his new book Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. My opinion is that this book serves as a controversy point to sell some copies. I don’t think he arguments that interacting in the blogosphere is like interacting with ghosts. [...]

Posted in Cyber Culture | 3 Comments »

YouTube This, Advertise That

January 24th, 2008

Everyone is struggling to define, classify and categorize digital advertising. Trying to break down digital advertising is an arduous task that is, cliché coming, changing by the minute. Ad agencies and companies are taking many approaches, trying to win the race to figure out how the digital world works and where advertising fits into it.
Toyota’s [...]

Posted in Advertising | 2 Comments »

Programmers and Airplanes

January 22nd, 2008

Here is what you get when you cross a programmer and an airplane.

Posted in Advertising, Cool Shit, Web Development | No Comments »

Being Overrun By Google Can Be a Good Thing

January 16th, 2008

Creating inspiring advertising moments isn’t easy. One step further, creating these moments and then making sure the right people see them is even harder. We are taught in school how to create a brand image, position it and have an insightful, effective strategy associated with it. I personally take pride in developing advertising campaigns. Evening [...]

Posted in Advertising | No Comments »

And Another Social Network - This Time With Something New

January 14th, 2008

Next2friends.com caught my eye a few months ago when I found out about their beta launch. They are now officially launched and have some pretty cool things to offer.
They provide more of a mobile social network making your cellphone more of a key part bring the digital social network more into the real. take a [...]

Posted in Cool Shit | No Comments »

User-aided Computer-generated Content, Taking Advertising, Yet Again, To New Heights

January 12th, 2008

People have been creating since the advent of original thought, and probably a bit before then too. Only now we see creation in terms of content being utilized across multiple media and for a slew of different causes. Today in terms of advertising, marketing, and digital progression user generated content is kicking up quite the [...]

Posted in Advertising, Idea Book | 1 Comment »

A Note on the Attic Heroes of our Time

January 9th, 2008

Over recent years the advertising industry, and its periphery partners have called for professionals with a diverse set of skills. Only years ago Agencies like Ogilvy & Mather were calling for media planners, art directors, account executives and, of course, interns. Now we find agencies like DDB Seattle calling for interactive producers, technical directors, and [...]

Posted in Advertising | 1 Comment »

Lyrics and Language - Mashing Our Words and Those of The Greats

January 7th, 2008

How about a Wordpress Plugin or web app that scans content like blog posts for lyrics and returns what song it’s from. That could be cool!
Sort of like wefeelfine.org

Posted in Idea Book, Wordpress | No Comments »

This Guy Is Rad!

January 4th, 2008

If you have 17 minutes check out this guy, he is doing some of the coolest things that one day I hope to even come close to!
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/144

Posted in Cool Shit | No Comments »

Homemade DVD Player

January 3rd, 2008

Well not quite… more like store bought, broke, taken apart and nailed to wall DVD player.
One of my roommates had this temperamental Toshiba DVD player for years and finally gave up and got a new one. Frustrated last night with nothing else to do he took it apart. This immediatly took me back to my [...]

Posted in Cool Shit | No Comments »

Next »


  • Just another Blog and narcissistic self esteem builder. If you think I have anything to say take a second and let me know - Post a comment - and you too can shamelessly promote yourself just as I do here. Have Fun!
  • Archives

    • May 2008
    • April 2008
    • March 2008
    • February 2008
    • January 2008
    • December 2007
    • November 2007
    • July 2007
  • Categories

    • Advertising
    • APIs
    • Cool Shit
    • CSS
    • Cyber Culture
    • Digital Marketing Conference
    • Idea Book
    • Javascript
    • Live
    • MySQL
    • Rant
    • Tools
    • Uncategorized
    • Web Development
    • Wordpress
  • Blogroll

    • 1 + 1 = 11
    • A List Apart
    • A Moment of Wonderful
    • Dave Shea
    • Deb Morrison
    • Logic + Emotion
    • Love is a Verb
    • Mashable
    • Micro Persuasion
    • Photomatt
    • Professor Christy’s Blog
    • Step into my World…
    • Straight Up With BK
  • Tags

    AJAX API Book Class Cool CSS Facebook FedEx Flash geocoding Google Google Maps ID Idea Book Images Innovation iPhone Javascript Jonathan Harris JSON Life MySQL News OpenSource Overview PackMapr PEAR HTTP_Request PHP Pingdom Politics Programming RSS School Starbucks Stats Tools Tutorial University of Oregon UPS USPS Web Trends Weiden + Kennedy What if Wordpress youTube

Powered by Wordpress | Design by Zach Blank
XHTML Strict | RSS Entries