Bloglines has launched a vast improvement to their popular RSS reader in a beta format at beta.bloglines.com. Any Bloglines users are able to access the new beta at this time. First impressions: 1. They’ve improved the colors. It’s less painful than the previous colors and better contrast for important features on the page like headlines. [...]
Blogging can be a powerful marketing tool for businesses with interesting stories to tell. I believe this is especially true in businesses where building a personal relationship with propsects or showcasing one’s expertise has the potential to translate into sales. A few industries where this has proven to be particularly effective include: 1. Real estate [...]
Following up on yesterday’s post about arm breaking arm wrestling video games, I found this arm wrestling kit on Ebay that delivers an electric shock to arm wrestlers: It includes an excellent product description: This game takes the traditional Gladiator sport of Arm Wrestling to a whole new level! Strap on the wrist plate and [...]
The Science Museum of MN blog has a funny report on an arm wrestling video game in Japan that’s broken the arms of three human opponents. To me, this is a sad day for video games. Why should they be held accountable for the behavior of idiots who don’t realize an arm wrestling machine is [...]
I’ve created an events calendar for The Deets. You can find a link to it from the header. It uses Google Calendar. Basically, I created a new calendar for events (no, it’s not my personal calendar) and set it to Public view. After that, I generated an iframe view of the calendar and built that [...]
Jordan McCollum from Marketing Pilgrim breaks down the results of two recent online advertising studies that showed web visitors becoming more blind to online advertisements. An eye-tracking study by usability guru, Jakob Nielsen included this image reinforcing how hard it is to get people to even notice ads: McCollum’s conclusion based on the studies: The [...]
Yahoo’s RealFood blog has some great tips and recipies for people into fresh and organic food. This video offers some great tips on how to find the good stuff at farmer’s markets. And if you’re in Minnesota, it will make you a bit jealous to see what’s available at a California farmer’s market.
UPDATED: Or is he? There is no official word yet. ———– This is one of the strangest news cycles I’ve seen. My phone just vibed with a Twitter message from Rex Sorgatz in Seattle saying: “for fuck’s sake. how can Perez Hilton be breaking the Castro-dead story?” Sure enough, that does appear to be the [...]
I have a hard time believing that this helps sell homes. For those of you too lazy to click (why do I enable you?), a company is selling furniture shaped cardboard you can use to stage your home with after you’ve moved your own furniture out. Personally, I think the market for this is people [...]
Congratulations to the students at Macalester College on being the most gay friendly in the nation according to the Princeton Review. I wonder what the least gay friendly college in the US is? BYU? Bob Jones? Some other backwards school? via Queer Cities
