Archive for the ‘Link Love’ Category

• The Freakonomics Blog…
• THe new Skype blog… if you don’t have Skype, get it…
• Tiny URLs – cause who needs a long one…
• Think Different…
• Lakoff Interview…

• Ann Coulter – a fine read on the NewsWeek mess…
• How to start a start-up…
• Public relations on the Internet… good read… and an interesting primer…
• Powerlaw primer and Google on the Longtail…

More and more product launches, communities and brands are incorporating blogs as a way of engaging with their constituents. Today’s new entrant is Star Wars who have buried blogs in their community site. To find them you are going to need to force on your side but they are there! Here you go…

Blogs are much more than traditional brand extensions. They are brand activators, providing a platform on which the community can come together to share, interact and broaden their experience. You’ve got to pay to play, but hey, every community membership has its price.

• Looking up words on your Mac…
• Is that a Condom in your PodCast…
• Now that’s the way to build subscribers… Start charging more… It perhaps the dumbest marketing move of the tear, The New York TImes will, for a fee, provide exclusive access to Op-Ed and news columnists on NYTimes.com, easy and in-depth access to The Times’s online archives, early access to select articles on the site, as well as other exciting features. All this will encourage me to do is dump my print subscription all together. The FT is looking nicer by the day… Isn’t EPIC looking real?

• Work Creep… this is so sad… Get a life people!
• Yawn… Explorer to get tabs… ooooooo… now thats innovation!
• New BBC Blog Column… "Many critics claim that blogs have nothing to say and are pure self-indulgence. This new column, Weblog Watch, will be keeping an eye on the blogs and seeing if the criticism is justified."
• If you don’t understand what Creative Commons is, watch this…
• Lots of cool photos…
• And, Stamps.Com are back open for business…