A couple recent comments by yellow pages industry evangelist, Ken Clark, helped me come to the realization that rational arguments will never work with the people running print directory spam marketing. The reason for this is because they’re working in a faith based industry where rational arguments simply don’t connect with their financial belief system. [...]
Grover wasn’t impressed with the depth of my reporting on CityPages’ staff changes. Apparently, some news is worse than no news. I’m not going to take Grover’s complain one step further by throwing out some topics that I know exist but haven’t researched for more than 30 seconds. I hope Grover’s blue head doesn’t explode [...]
CityPages got around to updating their staff directory on Friday night. Was it black Friday at CityPages, or did they simply get around to updating their outdated roster? Some of the names removed have been gone from the paper for quite some time such as cheap eats food writer Jim Norton who was shown the [...]
Here’s a breakdown of the PayPal transactions for my CityPages post payment experiment. As you can see, PayPal’s fees really take a bite out of $1 payments. On my current plan, they charge $0.30 per transaction plus 2.9% of the gross, so 33 cents on the first dollar and 2.9 cents per dollar after that. [...]
Tonight’s run started at the Seward Coop where Carly dropped me off before picking up some groceries. (Note: If you’ve never been to the Seward Coop before, it can be quite a shock to find yourself surrounded by fresh organic foods from local sources with ingredients you can pronounce. Bring a foodie friend with you [...]
Dapper.net has rolled out what I believe will be the start of a huge new trend in online advertising: Dynamically created ads based on RSS feeds (aka A Dapper Campaign). I believe this to be true because I’ve been experimenting in this space over the past few months on my personal blog. Over there, I’ve [...]
I left a comment over on YP Industry advocate Ken Clark’s blog the other night regarding how funny it is that phone book companies are arguing that white pages should be discontinued because nobody uses them anymore, while the yellow page should still be delivered to the masses because . . . well . . [...]
Just saw this on the Longfellow River Gorge mailing list. The way people are using the Minneapolis Parks is changing (or has already changed) so it’s worth bringing in some up to date perspectives on how to construct usable trails and facilities for how people use the system now and in the future. For example, [...]
This blows my mind: Each dot represents one of my Facebook connections. The lines between dots show who knows each other. I added my own labels to describe various sub-groups using Skitch. My pre-college classmates have done a phenomenal job staying in touch over the past 17-30 years. Especially considering that we mostly left high [...]
As I mentioned on Tuesday, CityPages Sales Operations Manager, (EmilyN), Emily Neumann actually copy/paste plagiarized one of the paragraphs of her fake review directly from JD Hoyt’s website. Since then, in a hysterically offensive twist, it appears that Emily or someone else at CityPages / Village Voice Media decided to clean up that mess. How [...]
