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The Blogs On Cheney’s Shooting
Left-leaning blogs have been fairly unanimous in condemning DIck Cheney, Scott McClellan and other Bush administration officials for their handling of the Harry Whittington shooting. Right-leaning blogs have revealed a split in the conservative forces between those who support the … Continue reading
Blog Aggregation
Here at IDI, we are taking careful note of the trend of building blog advertising networks in an effort to make blogs more attractive to businesses. Nick Denton and Gawker Media is one of the pioneers in aggregation with five … Continue reading
You Talking to Me?
Websites and blogs often encourage readers to sign up, post comments, and participate in other ways. It has traditionally been done through text. You see a line at the top or bottom of the page, with a link. But here … Continue reading
Posted in Recent Trends
Tagged 3-D image, blogging, Forward, incorporate, multimedia, political, political purposes, purposes, reader’s attention, Talking, the blog, to Me, Together, You Talking to Me?
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Why Johnny Can’t Brand: “Action is Branding”
“Too many folks think “branding” is what airlines do when they repaint the planes every few years, or what banks do when they refresh all the signage in their lobbies and reengineer their logos,” write Bill Schley and Carl Nichols, … Continue reading
Posted in BR Blog
Tagged Action, Action is Branding, Action is character, adjustments, Branding, Can’t Brand, character, in this case, marke, material, physical, pictures, product, service, too, Why Johnny, Why Johnny Can’t Brand
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Mike Evans book, The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps, is a very well detailed and historically accurate review of key points in the past 50 years that have led to the current struggle with … Continue reading
Shane Claiborne’s Community Fire
This morning, a 7-alarm fire consumed an abandoned warehouse in our Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia. The Simple Way Community Center at 3200 Potter Street was destroyed as well as at least eight of our neighbors’ homes. Over 100 people were … Continue reading
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One of My Gym Playlists
I tend to have a lot of people asking me what music I am currently listening to. Lately I have been listening to a lot of podcasts, but musically, it’s a great season of new hotness. Here is one of … Continue reading
Can I Post This Picture?
I attended an interesting panel at last week’s Internet Caucus State of the Net conference. The speakers examined the growth of blogging and “self publishing” and the different means for spreading messages via the blogosphere, including vlogs. Internet Caucus has … Continue reading
Are Blog Comments Worth the Hassle?
As prominent blogger Steve Rubel notes, two high-traffic blogs — Blog Maverick and Seth Godin’s Blog — have disabled the comments feature on their sites. According to Mark Cuban, author of Blog Maverick, comments have “devolved to the point where … Continue reading →