Snipe advertising is the commercial form of graffiti and is sadly all too common around town. Luckily, at least a few local activists are doing something about this, including my dad in the Como neighborhood of St. Paul, by cleaning up the commercial litter: This is not a new issue, but it does seem like [...]
It’s interesting to see how Google’s autocomplete suggestions give us a glimpse into the zeitgeist of our economy. Turning Google upon itself, we see: Do the results for startribune tell us what people find interesting in the paper these days? My hope is that the startribune results are an illustration of areas people can’t easily [...]
Chase Turner dropped this video over on his Tumblr where IKEA’s advertising agency, Forsman and Bodenfors, shows how they managed to exploit Facebook’s photo tagging functionality to promote the opening of yet another IKEA store. For the handful of non-Facebook using readers out there, here’s the deal: When someone uploads a photo into Facebook, people [...]
Seward Coop is stocked up with Tofurky for Tofurky day. I’ve never tried it. Does the vegetarian giblet gravy kick it up a notch?
Bill Tancer has some interesting stats on the Hitwise blog about the potential impact on News Corp’s traffic we may see if Rupert Murdoch really does pull their sites out of Google’s search engines. One nugget I found particularly interesting is this morsel about WSJ.com’s higher than average Google News dependence: The potential loss of [...]
Ben from BenCredible.com spent some time in the W Hotel down in the Windy City. He described the quality as, “Disappointing TP folding from a hotel where it really should be world class.” He didn’t elaborate on what he didn’t like about the fold, but clearly his standards were high by the time he arrive [...]
Here are a few sites people around town may find valuable for getting stuff done, connecting with others, or improving the interestingness of their day. The inspiration for this is a couple high school friends who’ve recently moved back to town and are painfully out of touch with the various ways people are connecting in [...]
Todd Smith over at METRO Mag has published what goes down as the most ridiculous thing I’ve heard of a yellow pages salesperson doing to date. “I want to put his business on the cover of the phone book,” the man said. “How’s that sound? Huh?” The man brushed rain off his shoulders and then [...]
Paul Jahn has a bit of a cheese shop photography habit, but managed to break it up with this TP shot from the Madison West Holiday Inn. It would be nice to see the Holiday Inn devote an additional 2 seconds per room to improve the quality of their folds. No word on whether Snoop [...]
Johnny Northside has a story about Lennie Chism, who apparently wasn’t spending much time, if any, at the Minneapolis 5th Ward address he claimed to reside at during his unsuccessful campaign for a city council seat. As Johnny tells it, rotten phone books played a role in cracking this case: Very little activity was noted [...]
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