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Ancient Cartoon

Ancient Cartoon Originally uploaded by Wordyeti This is one of the earlier examples of cartoon-like storytelling I've run across. Found it at the Getty Villa museum - absolutely wonderful stuff there, in a stunningly beautiful setting. Obviously, whoever had this...

3 Trillion Dollar Shopping Spree

Many times, people are asked, "What would you do if you had a million dollars?" Welp. With inflation raging the way that it is (pay no attention to those cooked-to-mush Gummint numbers), a million just ain't the pot o' gold that it used to be. So to really let...

Trade Publications That Use the Web Avoid the “Death Spiral”

Short post today, and one that heavily relies on something I saw elsewhere, which I find interesting and insightful enough that I really can't add much with my own blather. To entice you to click over, here's a snip: “B-to-b companies that have been working on their...

Inca Pink Floyd Fans

Inca Pink Floyd Fans Originally uploaded by Wordyeti I kinda chortled when I first saw this sign ... then thought about it a bit. Amazing how U.S./western culture hits places like this and then gets transmogrified and filtered through their cultural lenses...

Divorce, YouTube Style…

A further signpost on how much YouTube and online video are penetrating every aspect of our lives: a woman named Tricia Walsh-Smith, married to a big Broadway producer, is apparently unhappy with the terms of her prenup. So she's litigating the case in YouTube - in a...

New Web 2.0 Buzzphrase Alert: Sentiment Monitoring

Let the consultants rejoice! A new buzzphrase is spreading, which means that there is now a new service that can be marketed, discussed, sold & added to the quarterly CRM budgets. According to Accenture, "Sentiment Monitoring" is: ...an easy and...

Why Sip?

Because surfing the Internet is like drinking from a firehose, David LaFontaine braves the torrent to tell you what trends and technologies to gulp down, swirl in your mouth, or spit out.

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