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Archive for December, 2006

Doing My Part for the Z listers

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

First, the existing Z-list, as reported by Mack Collier:
BrandSizzle
bizsolutionsplus
Customers Rock!
Being Peter Kim
Pow! Right Between The Eyes! Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise
Billions With Zero Knowledge
Working at Home on the Internet
MapleLeaf 2.0
darrenbarefoot.com
Two Hat Marketing

The Emerging Brand
The Branding Blog
CrapHammer
Drew’s Marketing Minute
Golden Practices
Viaspire
Tell Ten Friends
Flooring the Consumer
Kinetic Ideas
Unconventional Thinking
Buzzoodle
NewsPaperGrl
The Copywriting Maven
Hee-Haw Marketing
Scott Burkett’s Pothole on the Infobahn
Multi-Cult Classics
Logic + Emotion
Branding & Marketing
Popcorn n Roses
On Influence & Automation
Bullshitobserver
Servant of Chaos
converstations
eSoup
Presentation Zen
Dmitry Linkov
aialone
John Wagner
Nick Rice
CKs Blog
Design Sojourn
Frozen Puck
The Sartorialist
Small Surfaces
Africa Unchained
Perspective
gDiapers
Marketing Nirvana
Bob Sutton
¡Hola! Oi! Hi!
Shut Up and Drink the Kool-Aid!
Women, Art, Life: Weaving It All Together
Community Guy
Social Media on the fly

And now, my additions:

Jeremy Latham’s Blog
SMogger Social Media Blog
Masey.com

I Have Been a Very Bad Blogger

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

For starters, I haven’t been posting much. This is most disappointing to me, because I vowed I would be consistent. Much worse though is the fact that I haven’t added the rest of my podcasting series, and now we’re close enough to the holidays that it seems I might break that promise too.

My sincerest of apologies to those of you who were waiting for more episodes before Christmas, especially those who made a point of saying so in the comments. In the New Year, I will atone for all of my sins, I assure you. Still, Time magazine has voted me Person of the Year.

Lastly, I owe a big thanks to Mack Collier, his “Z-list” has brought me a huge burst in traffic and links, and I haven’t had the time to reciprocate to all of the linkers. This one I will rectify much sooner. Thanks to all of you who are reposting my link over and over again, I am entirely grateful. I haven’t checked yet, but you might have moved me up the Technorati ladder quite a few notches. In blog land, that’s like hard currency.

And, did anyone else notice that the entire WordPress dashboard UI changed overnight? I’m still getting used to it.

Update: ‘Twas Rob who changed my dashboard; adding a plugin as a surprise, as he mentions in the comments.

What's Cool on the Web This Week

Thursday, December 14th, 2006

I’m rather embarrassed to admit that I missed the sign-up deadline for Casecamp, Crayonville (held in Second Life) tonight. Sounds like I missed out.

Anyway, without that coolest of the cool ‘unconference’ to attend in that 3D world I’m gradually warming up to, I started digging into the episodes of “Crayoncast,” the podcast by staff of Crayon, “a new marketing company.” And I like it. The staff each give a quick minute on their favorite topic of the week. Some of it is actually useful too, such as the tip to check out JPG Magazine, the first “user-generated” print magazine, for photographers.

JPG

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