June 2012
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The Gods Must Be Crazy
Back in CA for a wee while, and have just passed my drivers license renewal test. This is mainly of importance because it means I can finally shelf my NY drivers license, whose photo is so sphincter-clenchy that the woman who took my order an hour ago looked at it and choked while laughing.
May 2012
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“I’m basically in the Investors Hall Of Fame.”
– Mitt Romney (circa 2002) was very good at humblebragging (via buzzfeed)
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” - Margaret Thatcher.
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Social Strategy. It's Complicated.
This Buddy Media/Luma Partners illustration of the complex social media marketing mix is about as hairy as you want to make it; all the brands featured here aren’t necessarily going to play a role in your marketing campaign. But it does show to what degree social media marketing’s become — what’s the word they used? — right, complicated.
Let’s talk about...
John Prescott on Twitter's 10m milestone
guardian:
Life is tweet, says the UK’s former deputy prime minister John Prescott, as the number of people in the UK using Twitter reaches 10 million:
Twitter is OUR media, the public have become the news editors and the Twitter trend list is the running order.
It’s given me a voice and a connection to millions of people that the distorted prism of the mainstream media denied.
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WatchSNL’s 100th Digital Short.
This is how you fête your 100th digital short if you have piles of money and a captive audience the size of an armada: in song, with more cameos than you can count (including rapping Natalie Portman!), and a collective self-pleasure fest that makes Justin Bieber visibly uncomfortable … which almost makes him likeable. Almost.
“And so people say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody...”
– Erin McKean, lexicographer (via didyoudrinkmygingerale)
I’m sure Shakespeare would agree.
“A little boy… sent me a charming card with a little drawing. I loved it. I...”
– I got this from Gawker. And I love it. I would eat it if I could. (via maureenjohnsonbooks)
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...”
– Carl Sagan, on books
There is something about holding an organized pile of wood pulp and dried ink that gives the reader a shared stake in the author’s experience, some small part-ownership of a piece of information. “This is mine, and although the words in it are not, the experience is purely...
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Subversive Shopping Cart Abandonment
One of the biggest problems e-commerce sites have is shopping cart abandonment, which is usually attributed to users getting lost on the site, getting distracted and finding themselves elsewhere, or finding the purchasing process altogether too complicated.
But I’ve found a new reason that weirdly resembles the habits of high school girls playing “store” at the supermarket....
the-cipher asked: Hi Angela, I came across your blog and found some of your thoughts and writing to be very interesting. As I'm now starting to find my footing as a writer, I was wondering if you can provide some insights that might help me along my path. My questions are as follows: 1. What do you really do as a social strategist? 2. What are your sources of inspiration for your writing? 3. What is part of...
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"Why Do We Photoshop People?" →
maureenjohnsonbooks:
1. Most fashion/lifestyle magazines make their A LOT of their money from ads.
Ever notice how those glossy mags are made up of lots of ads? (Ever notice how a bridal magazine is pretty much ALL ADS? There’s a story in itself.) There’s not really a lot of actual magazine content in there. Because the ads are of primary importance, the content must not be offensive to/wildly...
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How and Why You Should Write a Social Media Will →
usagov:
Social media is a part of daily life, but what happens to the online content that you created once you die?
If you have social media profiles set up online, you should create a statement of how you would like your online identity to be handled. Just like a traditional will helps your survivors handle your physical belongings, a social media will spells out how you want your online...
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs, 1996 Wired Interview (via MyEDOL)
“Connecting things” — behind that is the premise that the full picture was already there; it just needed the lines that connect the dots.
I’m currently reading The Case for Creativity and there’s a full chapter about...
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“I like the show precisely because it succeeds in shining a bright light down...”
– David Burn, commenting on “Interestingly, TV Reviewers Aren’t Buying ‘The Pitch’”.
A colleague told me last week that the necessities of working in advertising have been reduced to a hasty copy-pasting of other work people have done — often straight out of...
“It happens when a father realizes he doesn’t just love his daughter, but also...”
– President Obama (via barackobama)
“Humans have a tendency to fall prey to the illusion that their economy is at the...”
– Carl Folke, the science director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, when asked, “Imagine—much as Feynman asked his audience—that in a mission to change everyone’s thinking about the world, you can take only one lesson from your field as a guide. In a single statement, what...
April 2012
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“I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is...”
– Osho (via beautyisanillusion)
“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both...”
– Italo Calvino (via nadiarahali)
I suppose I wouldn’t have thought of it that way.
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Marilyn Snaps: So I recently tried Nutella and I... →
marilynstays:
Yes, it’s delicious, but some folks need to stop dancing around the fact that we’re eating chocolate sandwiches. I’m a grown woman, I know when I’m eating a chocolate sandwich. I accepted that as soon as I licked my finger and went “goddamn that’s delicious, find me something edible I can spoon this shit onto before I just start scooping it out with my hands!” I’m good with it.
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