Let’s start off the week with an open house. What’s everyone up to? As usual, comments and trackbacks are open, but let’s keep it clean.
I’ve trying out a new Linkfest Haven Wordpress Plugin. We’ll see if I can get it to work. I’m a little sleep deprived, so it may take a minute.
Regular blogging should resume later today.
I don’t have much time to dedicate to blogging today, so let’s here from you. Design or blogging questions? Anything interesting going on at your site?
Open comments and open trackbacks. The only rule is to keep it clean.
I don’t have much time to dedicate to blogging today, so let’s here from you. Design or blogging questions? Anything interesting going on at your site?
Open comments and open trackbacks. The only rule is to keep it clean.
I saw a great idea over at Blog Till you Drop!. The Z-Listers, a list of under-appreciated blogs. Seth Godin suggests it is a bad choice of names, but I like it. Using C-list or D-List would have been inappropriate, but Z-List suggest you don’t accept the whole idea of the A-List blogs at all. Can you think of any that need to be on the list?
Here’s the Z-List with a couple of additions of my own mixed right in.
Creative Think
Soloride
Movie Marketing Madness
Blog Till You Drop!
Get Shouty!
Jarrett Fuller | Blog
One Reader at a Time
The New PR
Own Your Brand!
OTOInsights
bizandbuzz
Work, in Plain English
Buzz Canuck
New Millenium PR
Pardon My French
Troy Worman’s Blog
The Instigator Blog
AENDirect
Diva Marketing
Marketing Hipster
The Marketing Minute
Funny Business
The Frager Factor
ARCHE•BLogGER
Mindblob
Open The Dialogue
Word Sell
Note to CMO:
That’s Great Marketing!
Shotgun Marketing Blog
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Win or Lose, We Go Shopping!
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
Two Hat Marketing
The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Thoughts on Design
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly
Jeremy Latham’s Blog
SMogger Social Media Blog
Masey.com
High Desert Wanderer
If you want to participate, cut and paste this list into your post, and add a few of your favorite under-appreciated blogs to the list.
I was tagged with a Christmas Meme a few days ago. I didn’t notice the tag right away (sorry), but I’ll address it now. I know, it’s after Christmas, but it’s the thought that counts… right?
Three Things I wanted for Christmas:
Two out of three isn’t bad, especially when I only missed out on the white Christmas.
Three things I didn’t want for Christmas:
I grew up having Christmas with the my father’s family. They’re… melodramatic would be a nice way of putting it. I like things a lot quieter now that I have a choice in the matter. Fortunately, the spirit of Christmas reigned at our house this year… and no blue plaid was in sight.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and that you will have a fantastic new year!
I was tagged with a Christmas Meme a few days ago. I didn’t notice the tag right away (sorry), but I’ll address it now. I know, it’s after Christmas, but it’s the thought that counts… right?
Three Things I wanted for Christmas:
Two out of three isn’t bad, especially when I only missed out on the white Christmas.
Three things I didn’t want for Christmas:
I grew up having Christmas with the my father’s family. They’re… melodramatic would be a nice way of putting it. I like things a lot quieter now that I have a choice in the matter. Fortunately, the spirit of Christmas reigned at our house this year… and no blue plaid was in sight.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and that you will have a fantastic new year!
I was tagged with a Christmas Meme a few days ago. I didn’t notice the tag right away (sorry), but I’ll address it now. I know, it’s after Christmas, but it’s the thought that counts… right?
Three Things I wanted for Christmas:
Two out of three isn’t bad, especially when I only missed out on the white Christmas.
Three things I didn’t want for Christmas:
I grew up having Christmas with the my father’s family. They’re… melodramatic would be a nice way of putting it. I like things a lot quieter now that I have a choice in the matter. Fortunately, the spirit of Christmas reigned at our house this year… and no blue plaid was in sight.
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas, and that you will have a fantastic new year!
I saw a new (to me) flash game called New Sand Game today. An interesting idea. Add elements like ground, sand, water and seed, and things grow. Doesn’t sound very interesting, but it’s kind of fascinating.
Spammers are stepping up the pace lately. I’ve got over 900 attempted spam comments and trackbacks in the last three days. Is it something I said?
I didn’t realize I was related to Henny Youngman, but this sounds just like my grandmother…
My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle. - Henny Youngman
Someone once desribed my grandmother as someone who called a spade a spade. Her reply was:
I don’t call a spade a spade, I call it a f@#$%*g shovel.
Holidays with my family are many things, but boring isn’t one of them.
Everyone needs a good calendar, and The Year in Pictures by JL Bussey should be a great calendar. I don’t know what pictures Jan chose for it, but I find it hard to believe she’d choose anything I didn’t love.
Everyone needs a good calendar, and The Year in Pictures by JL Bussey should be a great calendar. I don’t know what pictures Jan chose for it, but I find it hard to believe she’d choose anything I didn’t love.
A clever episode of Heroes last night. Hiro and the episode jumped back six months to see where everything started. We finally got to see Sylar’s face. I was afraid he was going to turn out to be one of the characters we’d already met. Didn’t happen. I thought the whole “watchmaker’s son” idea was very good. Gave some depth to the character and a little in the way of explanation of his power. I’m looking forward to next week’s episode. Promo says that we lose a hero… and to expect something completely unexpected. I think the words they used were something like “A Hero will be lost… and in a show known for its surprise endings, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” Now that’s how to promote a TV show!
A clever episode of Heroes last night. Hiro and the episode jumped back six months to see where everything started. We finally got to see Sylar’s face. I was afraid he was going to turn out to be one of the characters we’d already met. Didn’t happen. I thought the whole “watchmaker’s son” idea was very good. Gave some depth to the character and a little in the way of explanation of his power. I’m looking forward to next week’s episode. Promo says that we lose a hero… and to expect something completely unexpected. I think the words they used were something like “A Hero will be lost… and in a show known for its surprise endings, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.” Now that’s how to promote a TV show!
Happy Thanksgiving, and God bless you all.
Happy Thanksgiving, and God bless you all.
This is… interesting.
As the plainclothes Atlanta police officers approached the house about 7 p.m. Monday, a woman inside started shooting, striking each of them, said Officer Joe Cobb, a police spokesman.
One was hit in the arm, another in a thigh and the third in a shoulder. The officers were taken to a hospital for treatment, and all three were conscious and alert, police said.
Just another day in Atlanta? Not when you look at the title of the article. Woman, 92, dies in shootout with police.
This is… interesting.
As the plainclothes Atlanta police officers approached the house about 7 p.m. Monday, a woman inside started shooting, striking each of them, said Officer Joe Cobb, a police spokesman.
One was hit in the arm, another in a thigh and the third in a shoulder. The officers were taken to a hospital for treatment, and all three were conscious and alert, police said.
Just another day in Atlanta? Not when you look at the title of the article. Woman, 92, dies in shootout with police.
The Save the Cheerleader, Save the World episode of Heroes just ended. Spectacular. Best TV show that’s been on since Firefly. Actual character development. Now there’s something you don’t often see in modern TV. As a graphic designer and comic book fan I can’t help but love the graphic elements of the series. The comic style paintings, the cinematography, it’s all fantastic. I can’t wait to see where it goes from here.
They’re making a movie from the comic book Ghost Rider. Stars Nicholas Cage of all people. The promotional trailer looks very good. While this wasn’t one of my favorite comic books, I was a huge comic book fan when I was younger. I still like some of the well drawn ones. Looking back, I don’t know why I didn’t like Ghost Rider, some of the art work done for the various comics was fairly good.