Pushing Boxes

PoMo Graffiti SiteJackers

Frack you in the ear M! for having created a sweet deconstruction of a boutique self-rep site in stark contrast to the look-at-me-and-my-fancypants-skills or we-are-so-simple-too-cool approaches of the competition.

Interesting:

• M! metaverse is comprised of a network of pages on wikepedia, flickr, delicious and google results.
• Nav-widget stalks the user through other sites utilizing the modernista.com as a redirect.
• Not sure but I imagine this site was pretty cost & time effective as the main pages are created using UGC tools  & communities.
• AdFreak, which clued me into this site failed to point out the sheer awesomeness and ultimate brand-site implications of this approach.

Go to the Modernista!'s new website.

(thanks AdFreak)

Circle up for more of the same in 08'

AdAge asked some of their "Power150" bloggers to chime in on what they saw as the key emerging trends for 2008. On the list...social networking, micro-content, SEO no big surprise if you have been following the trends in the past two years. The question is how much do these predictions lock everyone into perpetuating the same "innovation" as we did last year.

Intersting:
Marie Lena Tupot: Mobil Utility
Andy Wibbels: Findability
Joe Pulizzi: Marketing Philosophyh
John Ebbert: Market Segmentation

AVP:
Mike Volpe: Facebook (come on)
Jay Moona: LastFM
Peter Imbres: Twitter

Full spread: Power 150 Bloggers: Pay Attention to Web Video, Twitter, Facebook This Year

Duck!

Looks like the DNS is in action and the domain mapping is finally working.

Mobile Posting is now working

Ok, seriously this is too easy.

check

12/20/2007

Coined Terms: A2O

Shorthand to denote an "Apples to Oranges" comparison. Be free my new term...fly...fly away,

Up an running

TypePad over Wordpress hands down. Is it an A2O comparison, maybe. But, in the last few hours I have been able to customize all of the colors (being colorblind  Kuler  is an invaluable tool), port the 5 posts from my previous blog, and put in a customizable favicon.  Now I am up and waiting for the DNS to update.

Follow-up Confession

I don’t follow-up with the people I meet professionally. I feed dumb but I get too busy (Lifehacker GTD to the rescue) or I sit infront of a blank screen retyping opening sentences and thinking of how to not sound like I am trying to be witty (which I desperately want to come off as). Props to Llise Benun for the algorithmically-delicious “A Simple Follow-Up Formula”. Now it’s Captain Planet time.

(Freelance Switch via Lifehacker)

Pixel Power

Anyone who has ever tried to represent pixel dimensions in Visio knows that its about as easy as conjuring up a dragon. Pixel ruler to the rescue, this invaluable stencil set allows you to determine and document the pixel dimensions of any object (just line up the horizontal or vertical ruler) or to create a box with dimension already included (auto generated as you resize). Add this to your arsenal NOW!!!.

Pixel Ruler (via Atomiq)

Coined Terms: Culture Punk

                                                 

As if by divine light I thus give birth to this these two terms term

1.  “Culture Punk” : A style of fiction that can be described as post-cyberpunk that uses the backdrop of marketing / advertising culture as the basis of the story.

Example: Pattern Recognition

Thank you Mr. Gibson…you have now reached your x-punk genre defining limit.