Have you seen Desiree and Justine show off their various Parkour moves? It's good entertainment for the dollar. …
Neighborhood Blogs Offer Hyper-Local Demographics
Outside.in presents "America's Top 10 Bloggiest Neighborhoods." 1. Clinton Hill, Brooklyn 2. Shaw, DC 3. Downtown LA 4. Newton, Mass 5. Rogers Park/North Howard Chicago 6. Pearl District ("The Pearl"), Portland 7. Watertown, Mass 8. Harlem, NY 9. Potrero Hill, SF 10. Coconut Grove ("The Grove"), FL Outside.in was introduced in February as a collector of local news and blog posts, covering about 3,000 neighborhoods in …
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There’s A Lot Of BS In This BS Job Description
On CNN.com, they've listed "50 Bullshit Jobs" as written by Stanley Bing. Going in alphabetical order, the first one is "Advertising Executive": Advertising executive: Create perceived need/value for inherently generic or worthless products $$: Ground-level workers with writing ability move quickly to the top, immediately snagging low to mid-six figures; those who can spin mythological concepts surrounding quotidian …
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Passive Users On Participatory Sites
Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise, published a piece on particiaption levels on Web 2.0 sites in Time earlier this week. The latest data on Internet participation reveals that only a very small percentage of Internet activity is related to users creating and publishing content. The 80/20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle, states that 80% of all consequences stem from 20% of the causes. …
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MySpace Dot CN Launches
MySpace China is online. According to Associated Press, a beta version of the site launched today. MySpace China is a Chinese-owned company with backing from MySpace Inc., the IDG venture capital firm and a Chinese investment fund, the company said. The strategy of having a Chinese company operate the service follows the approach of Yahoo Inc., eBay Inc. and other Internet competitors that have turned to local …
PhillyInc. Brought To You By Citizens Bank
The New York Times is interested, as is the larger newspaper industry, in the various ideas being brought to bare in Philadelphia, care of high profile ad man turned newspaper publisher, Brian P. Tierney. Starting next week, The Philadelphia Inquirer will run a new column called PhillyInc., written by Inquirer reporters and editors, on the first page of its business section. What is unusual is that the column will be …
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Where Women Click
Glam.com, with lead articles like "How to Get Bouncy Curls," "Who Should Prince William Date Now?" and "Chatting with Nanette Lepore" is the second most visited community website by women, after iVillage. According to The Wall Street Journal (paid sub. req.) Glam Media is a favorite of online media buyers. Glam Media is one of several emerging Web networks that offers advertisers the chance to run narrowly targeted …
Web Two Point Poo Poo
Top 10 lists make geat memes. And it seems Charlie O'Donnell has given birth to a new one--Top Ten Reasons Why Web 2.0 Sucks. I'd like to share my favorite three of his 10 points here: 4. Web 2.0 is a conversational vacuum. I'll prove it. Unless you live in the Valley, walk outside your door and try to find a Twitter user... You've got six hours. Go. Trust me, we're talking to ourselves. (Don't get me wrong... I …
