A weekend visitor to the Twin Cities was pleasantly surprised to pick up a room for only $60 in town through Priceline: Priceline works! I’ve never used them before, I suppose because it’s rare I’m traveling not for work and not staying with relatives. I worried there’d be no free rooms Saturday night with a [...]
This TP submission from Adam was from a trip he took with BenCredible to San Francisco. He was short on details, but made it clear that he shared a hotel room with BenCredible in San Francisco. The double fold-back technique is a stand out. Nice flare.
I guess it shouldn’t be that surprising that the people behind the non-viral viral video discussed here earlier this week have switched to fake news style advertising to bolster their non-viral efforts. In practice, it looks like this: What does surprise me is that the StarTribune was willing to run a red ALL CAPS fake [...]
I’ve never encountered this form of blog comment spam before: The lower of the two comments comes from a real Amanda. The upper comment took Amanda’s comment, added two more sentences, changed Amanda’s commenter URL, then reposted the comment under Amanda’s name. That’s some sneaky stuff. The commenter and comment look familiar, which may cause [...]
Here’s a snippet from the 3rd Precinct MPD Sector 4 Community Bulletin for the past week. Sector 4 of the 3rd Precinct covers the following neighborhoods: Cooper, Hiawatha, Howe, Longfellow, Seward. I wonder if this is a case of being lulled into a false sense of security? The crime levels in this part of town [...]
Last Saturday, I ran a drizzley run along Minnehaha Parkway starting from the Minnhaha Creek with a return around Lake Nomokis. I took the Northern side of the parkway as I started West. The 13th hole’s elevated tee box at Hiawatha Golf Course was vacant in the rain. Craig has a breakdown of this hole: [...]
A commenter on one of my videos on YouTube has reminded me that the Yellow Pages industry is still far from grasping where the public is on YP distribution. I’m assuming that this person works for the yellow pages industry but not for Idearc Media based on the comments they’ve left to date. I’d be [...]
Regular yellow pages topics Deets commenter (check back to Feb. 2009), Mike Stewart, appears to have lost his job over his unauthorized online behavior. He offers up an insider’s view on some of the challenges Idearc faces in their attempts to keep print relevant while also competing on the web. Personally, I wish Idearc the [...]
I spotted this unfortunate situation near Lake Nokomis on Saturday morning. I imagine there’s an interesting story here, assuming the driver can remember it.
I’m no expert at understanding the PR industry, but here’s my perspective on how things work with local bloggers these days. There are companies that build directories of blogs around topics. This includes not just the topic but the contact info of the people behind the blogs. PR firms can then buy access to these [...]
