Fun and Such
Print is Dying, Not Newspapers
Newspapers have been struggling and losing readership for some time now. That is not news. But what is news is that a paper like The Christian Science Monitor will now stop printing on weekdays and mostly an online newspaper with a weekend print edition. From the NYTimes:
After a century of continuous publication, The Christian Science [...]
Facebook Lowers Self-Esteem?
The Most Real Looking Robot You’ve Seen
Japanese researchers have built the most “real” looking robot ever:
Kind of freaky if you ask me. It’s based on a 5 year old girl and has 50 sensors and a series of motors to help it move.
Who the Heck is Gavin Rossdale?
So, I look like Gavin Rossdale. Who the heck is Gavin? I had to look him up on Wikipedia.
MyHeritage: Family trees - Genealogy - Celebrities
When Twitter Daters Meet….
CEO Blog of the Day: Williard Marriott
CEO’s can blog too. Even CEO’s of large multi-national corporations with global name brand recognition and revenue comparable to small nations. And in many ways blogging is a lot more effective when the person at the top of the organization starts to engage people on the web. Not only will there be a positive impact [...]
News Readers Migrate Online, Newspaper Readership Down 40%
This afternoon I was talking to one of my co-workers about the decline of newspaper readership and circulation. She just joined us at AIR from one of the local publication and had some pretty cool insights on the world of newspaper publishing. In the course of our conversation we talked about how neither of us [...]
How to Ruin a Stop Sign
How corporate speak - and lack of common sense can ruin a project. A funny take:
Who’s at fault here? The marketing agency for not standing up to what they’re missing or the company reps who’ve lost sight of the goal?
Five Links for Friday
It’s think out loud Friday so, here are some of the interesting things that caught my attention on this beautiful Friday morning and my thoughts:
Flickr Releases Handy Embeddable Slide Show by Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb: It’s about time! I’ve always thought it was a shame that they have not offered this feature sooner. Not everyone [...]
Big Foot Found, Is this a Hoax on CNN?
Is this for real? I don’t beleive in Big Foot or the Yeti for that matter. But I watched the press conference and read the CNN article, so apparently Big Foot has been found. At least that is the claim being made by two men in Georgia, according to CNN:
Whitton and Dyer plan to unveil [...]
