Would you like fries with that Whopper?
Monday, December 31st, 2007Annenburg lists the biggest fibs of 2007. Don't worry - it's an equal opportunity roasting.
Archive for December, 2007
Annenburg lists the biggest fibs of 2007. Don't worry - it's an equal opportunity roasting.
Surfin’ Safari
Monday, December 31st, 2007Ever notice that everyone at the office on the day before Christmas and the day before New Years is just sitting around surfing the web? So now I have this song running through my head ... :)
MMM: Get ready for New Year’s!
Monday, December 31st, 2007Started planning yet? Here's a great post from Dumb Little Man about kicking your motivation into high gear. Want some more? How about this tasty tidbit from Seth Godin: Here's a question that you should clip out and tape to your bathroom mirror. It might save you ...
Knowing where to tinker makes all the difference
Sunday, December 30th, 2007I came across a famous story the other day - I'm sure you've read it before: "Nikola Tesla visited Henry Ford at his factory, which was having some kind of difficulty. Ford asked Tesla if he could help identify the problem area. Tesla walked up to a wall of boilerplate and made ...
Now there’s a great name for a company!
Saturday, December 29th, 2007A knowbot delivered this article to my inbox this morning: Merchant Services has E-commerce solutions built by THAT Agency THAT agency? Sure enough, THAT agency. :)
Button Blast
Saturday, December 29th, 2007GetElastic did an interesting post showing over 100 add to cart buttons and commenting on their design and use of verbiage. I'm not a big "Buy Now" fan - sounds too much like Amazon's "one click" purchasing model; I prefer "Add to Cart" even at the risk of ...
Weekend Break: Kipple, Note Taking, What is blogging like?
Saturday, December 29th, 2007Kipple "Kipple drives out non-kipple" - Phillip K. Dick Dick wrote described the cruft, crap, and detritus of life as kipple, and said that it was subject to its own form of Gresham's Law. Note Taking I'm a huge fan of ubiquitous capture (a la GTD), so I got a great kick out of ...
What’s Free?
Friday, December 28th, 2007A recent thread on the Zen Cart forum dealt with newsletter services for small businesses. I use and recommend MailChimp for this purpose, because I think that on a price/performance basis they are unbeatable. One of the posters replied, "I think I'll use phpList because it's ...
Tools for Freelancers
Thursday, December 27th, 2007The guys at Magento were gloating that sentences.org said they preferred Magento to Zen Cart. Not sure this is an apples-to-apples comparison since there are so few operational Magento carts in the wild, but the rest of the post was interesting enough that I wanted to share it.
LinkedIn deleted my profile!
Thursday, December 27th, 2007For some reason, my That Software Guy profile on LinkedIn has been deleted. I emailed them asking "WTF?" but haven't received anything more than a automatic response email so far. I sure would like to get those contacts and referrals back ... :(
