June 1 2011
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Magazine advertising looks increasingly quaint these days in the ever-more-flashy world of social, mobile, TV and cinema. But some print ads aren't just sitting there looking foolish. They're mad as hell, and they're not going to take it anymore. Below, check out 10 print ads that have more to offer than good looks and great copy.
10 Great Magazine Ads That Don't Just Sit There Looking Pretty | Adweek
Web Ink Now: Top ten tips for incredibly successful public speaking
I've been to something like one hundred conferences and corporate events in the past several years as I travel the world delivering keynotes and running seminars. I've seen a few great speeches. Sadly, most speeches I see are not very good. Some are downright terrible. 1. Take it seriously.
Bikinis Made from 3-D Printers Custom Fit Every Curve : Discovery News
Despite being of the male persuasion, even I know that bikini season is no day at the beach. Finding the right fit in a style and cut that threads the needle of decency is enough to make any woman throw up her hands and opt for a one-piece with shorts. Well ladies, Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung of Continuum Fashion have heard your dressing room distress calls. In search of the elusive 'perfect fit,' they've designed the N12 bikini , the world's first 3-D printed two-piece made of small nylon discs held together by thread-like springs. The N12 gets its name from the material it's made of: Nylon 12.
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Why digital agencies need a fresh gene pool | Opinion | New Media Age
John Hagel – Gathering ’11: an opportunity to make meaningful change
Jean Russell interviews opening speaker, John Hagel , on “ the power of pull ” and the opportunity to make meaningful change at Gathering ’11. Jean: Hi John, Thank you for sharing with me today. I know we are both excited about Gathering ’11, but I am curious what is the attraction for you? What do you think is powerful about this event?Thiel: Tech Bubble? What Tech Bubble? - NYTimes.com
There has been lots of chatter about a technology bubble in Silicon Valley. LinkedIn’s initial public offering , Groupon’s upcoming I.P.O. and bloated start-up investments and valuations are bringing back painful memories of the dot-com bubble’s burst roughly a decade ago. But this time there is no bubble, says Peter Thiel, the PayPal co-founder , early Facebook investor and hedge fund manager. “We don’t have a tech bubble for a variety of reasons,” Mr. Thiel said in an interview. “If anything, we need to be encouraging people to be doing more in tech.”
Fotolia's Social Media News Release - The blogger's resource to information
January 12, 2012 - Fotolia and deviantART(dA) partner up to deliver a stunning collection, containing the finest photographs from dA's community of artists. The collection includes close to 3,000 images and features a wide variety of categories, courtesy of fine art photographers, representing over fifty countries around the globe. Each month for 10 months, one digital artist shows unique method and know-how, created from images available on Fotolia, in a PSD layer files. Fotolia offers the largest image bank of free and most affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print. So far, there are 15,640,537 images, vectors and HD videos available at Fotolia . Fotolia also displays images from the most well known agencies in the world.
Brain Waves Surge Moments Before Death : Discovery News
A study of seven terminally ill patients found identical surges in brain activity moments before death, providing what may be physiological evidence of "out of body" experiences reported by people who survive near-death ordeals . Doctors at George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates recorded brain activity of people dying from critical illnesses, such as cancer or heart attacks. Moments before death , the patients experienced a burst in brain wave activity, with the spikes occurring at the same time before death and at comparable intensity and duration. Writing in the October issue of the Journal of Palliative Medicine , the doctors theorize that the brain surges may be tied to widely reported near-death experiences which typically involve spiritual or religious attributes.
Do psychics now pose just as big a threat to journalistic verification skills as social media?
There is a lovely coy line in this BBC report about the hoax call about mass graves in Texas last night : “US police say there were no bodies found at a house in east Texas, where an anonymous caller claiming to be a psychic said there was a mass grave. US media earlier reported there were up to 30 dismembered bodies including children buried there.”
Forsook! Google Can't Spell "Facebook" - SVW
Is this really such a tough algorithmic problem? After all, how many times has GMail seen the word "Facebook?" Not enough times apparently because it offers these as a guess: Face book, Casebook, Passbook, and thinking we live in Elizabethan times: Forsook.
Andresen on BitCoin and Virtual Currency | EconTalk | Library of Economics and Liberty
Gavin Andresen , Principal of the BitCoin Virtual Currency Project, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about BitCoin, an innovative attempt to create a decentralized electronic currency. Andresen explains the origins of BitCoin, how new currency gets created, how you can acquire BitCoins and the prospects for BitCoin's future. Can it compete with government-sanctioned money? How can users trust it? What threatens BitCoin and how might it thrive?I write a little about the work I do - PHP, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, Web Fonts, MySQL, Data Visualization and such, at this link: I used to blog here, but I don't anymore. I now blog using Google+. You can view my public posts, even if you aren't a Google+ user, at this link:
Malware Gangs Run Ads To Hire New Coders | donmcarthur.com
Is there greater thrill than encountering a new species technology in the wild ? The blogs Threat Level/Gawker recently reported the appearance of an entirely new genre of technology: an anonymous marketplace , or anonymarket. Out there on the internet is a place where you can buy and sell anything anonymously using untraceable money. What is mostly being bought and sold in this stealth market right now are recreational drugs -- pot and acid, etc. There has always been black markets in every city of the world, but as underground and out of sight as they might be, you still needed to show up in person to trade. And there has long been outlaw areas of the internet where black markets thrive and you don't need to reveal yourself, but paying without any trace has been a problem.