Tue, 3/11
After AdMonsters, I returned home just to pick my belongings up and then leave again. My exodus took me, via car, on a half-country roadtrip from California to Kentucky, passing through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. (Sadly, I missed SXSW this year due to all of the commotion and moving about, or else that would have been sandwiched into those activities.)
But, after a few more weeks here in the house where I grew up, I’m heading back to Manhattan. Yep, moving back to New York!
Inserting myself back into the city requires a lot of preparation (especially now that I have lessons learned from the first time to bolster me). One of the preparatory items I just crossed off my list? Adding Khoi Vinh’s image-based NYC subway map to my iPhone and making my own similar version that displays just streets.
Sun, 2/17
Just arrived in Fort Myers for the AdMonsters Publisher’s Forum, a 3-day breakout session for folks in the online advertising operations industry.
Tue, 2/5
Each of Hulu’s replays of the SuperBowl 2008 ads is sponsored by two seemingly unrelated but similarly all-American brands. So that’s three brands occupying two layers of ad messaging and one user trying to make sense of it all. Someone is clearly outnumbered here.
Mon, 2/4
This happened awhile ago, but I just discovered it. One of my photos accompanies an article on SFGate.com (the San Francisco Chronicle’s website). The black and white shot shows San Francisco’s Union Square, focusing on an iPod ad up in the corner.
Wed, 1/30
Snapped at La Jolla Cove this past weekend.
- “I knew you were going to ask that, but I’m weird about being associated with what I do. We all label people based on that, so what i do is, I’m a human living life, just like you are.” [Chad Curry via NYMag Look Book]
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- Matt Cutts and his commenters have rounded up some excellent feature suggestions for the Gmail engineers. Most of the ideas involve email scheduling with either send-to-the-future or delay-this-message functions.
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Tue, 1/29
When you shop at online retailer BlueFly, your purchase is shipped to you in a bland cardboard box. Inside, however, is a smooth, elegant paper shopping bag with ribbon handles. Just as if you had trotted home from the boutique, how delightful!
Preserving that physical evidence of buying something in the real world really completes the shopping experience for me in the online world.
Related: My earlier note on shopping bags as retail souvenirs.
Does anyone use MyBlogLog anymore? Apparently not:
It’s one of those services that I never bothered to join because the idea of hanging out with a bunch of people who read TechCrunch and spam it with their blog visits sounded awful.
I do admit, though, that there’s a genius idea in MyBlogLog’s concept — combining MySpace and website bookmarks and leaving cookie crumb trails of your visits for friends to find. I’m just not sure that slapping three short words and an annoying rhyme on the product was the way to sell it.
Anyway, it was reported early last year that Yahoo! had plans to rebrand and relaunch the service, but so far nothing’s happened.