Many years ago, I had rented some office space. The woman that owned the building was in her 60s and was a retired school teacher. She was friendly, interesting and engaging … that is, when I could hear what she was saying. I had a one-on-one conversation with her once, and that’s it.
She had a [...]
Content publishers are jumping for joy on this one: The New York Times announced that it has launched its Article Search API covering articles from 1981 to the present day.
API means “application programming interface.”
The API can be used for retrieving headlines, abstracts, lead paragraphs and links to associated multimedia. To use it, you need to [...]
If you are like me, you raced around yesterday, packing up gifts and getting them to UPS or the Postal Service so that they’ll arrive by the 24th. I keep vowing to get packages out the first part of December, and I keep missing the deadline.
No Spirits for the Holidays.
Most of yesterday morning was spent [...]
Zogby has been polling Americans on their attitudes about the Internet. The poll has revealed some gems! For instance:
The Internet Could Become a “Significant Other” — Almost a quarter of those polled said that the Internet could become a pretty good surrogate “significant other.”
Regulating the Internet – The older folks thought that the Internet, and [...]
Here are some advertising classics.
From the 1950s:
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From 1949:
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And an old subliminal. See is you can find the “hidden” subliminal messages it’s hilarious!
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If the title doesn’t make sense, don’t worry! You’ll soon be able to look up all those weird words because Marriam-Webster has added 100 new words to its dictionary.
Although the media has dutifully reported Marriam-Webster’s press release by mentioning these 100 new words, there is not a conclusive list anywhere — not even on [...]
To what degree do we do as we are told and conform to the group? Most of us would like to think that we are independent — unplugged from the matrix, if you will.
Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels was one of Adolf Hitler’s greatest allies. He served as the Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and [...]