Blogging Tips from Tim Ferriss
Jul/090
Some great tips to help you increase your blog traffic without neglecting the rest of your life and work in the process.
The rest of Tim Ferriss’ Blog is very much worth checking out at http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/
Social Media Knowledge Comments
Jun/090
Please leave comments regarding the jump! digital social media knowledge pages here 
It’s all in progress so if there is anything you would like to see in the future let me know!
What are you thinking?
Jun/090
This week I have been working on a project that has got me interested in how one might get a snapshot of the interests of the general public at any one time. I thought I’d share some of the tools I have been using.
There are a number of trend tools based around blogs and user generated content but looking at them from the eye of a non-technical user these tend to be bias towards more technical topics:
Twitter trends:
http://search.twitter.com/
Technorati’s Popular Blogs:
http://technorati.com/pop/
and even Delicious to find out what people are book marking:
http://delicious.com/
With all the talk of social media tools giving us a better insight into our customers / audience / users it was interesting (if not surprising when you think about it) that the best tools to get a taste of the general publics interests are based around search engine results, still the most popular of all online tools.
Google Trends:
http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends
Yahoo Buzzlog:
http://buzzlog.buzz.yahoo.com/overall/
and Asks tool for popular searches:
http://sp.ask.com/en/docs/iq/iq.shtml
I love looking at all the different ways people search for the same topic, especially those not yet covered by the mainstream media and as such have not had terms around them concreated.
Finding a way to deliver useful content to the masses based on these interests is the next stop!
Lego Architecture Presents the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection
May/090
Like pretty much everyone I know who ever had a childhood I have a massive soft spot for lego. The memories of sitting with my dad sorting through a box load of the stuff, separating matching parts into piles and getting to work on the building plans. Good good times!
Fond memories aside, I didn’t expect to pick up Lego up again until I had kids of my own. That is until my beady eyes noticed the Lego Frank Lloyd Wright Collection announced at prairiemod.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation announced today that The LEGO Group is now the exclusive licensed manufacturer of Frank Lloyd Wright Collection® LEGO Architecture sets.
The LEGO Group and Adam Reed Tucker of Brickstructures, Inc. officially introduced the LEGO Architecture line in 2008. The line currently consists of six buildings – now including two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous and recognizable buildings, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and “Fallingwater.”
With models developed in collaboration with architects, LEGO Architecture works to inspire future architects, engineers and designers as well as architecture fans around the world with the LEGO brick as a medium. Builders of all ages can now collect and construct their favorite worldwide architectural sites through these artistic replicas.
Both exclusive Frank Lloyd Wright LEGO Architecture sets contain booklets that feature traditional building instructions along with exclusive archival historical material and photographs of each iconic building.”
(Sources Image & Video Gizmodo – Quote prairiemod)
Unemployed Gray
May/090
A tribute to randommel.com and all the guys who have a little too much time on their hands because of this so called recession. I love unemployment!
St. Vincent: “Now Now”
Mar/090
Games and the music industry
Dec/080
“I don’t really look at the last 10 years of music business as a negative,” Weezer bassist Scott Shriner told Wired.com. “A lot of people are sad — nobody buys records anymore and everyone’s downloading and all that. But I think there’s more interest in music than ever, and I just want to use technology to reach people as much as possible.”
source http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/gadgets-games-h.html
