Archive for June, 2007

Maybe Not The Best, But Certainly A Category Worth Exploding … er, Exploring

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

ka-BOOM!

Digg alerts us to the “best Wikipedia category ever.”

Calling All Online Marketers

Monday, June 4th, 2007

Just a coupla minutes is all it'll take

Here’s a survey I created for the online marketers over on Soflow. If you’re not a Soflower and you are an online marketer, please click on over and take the survey. It’s only six questions, and the results will be posted here on LOHAD before too much longer. Take a coupla minutes and add to the knowledge pool.

The Most Annoying Banners — Ever

Sunday, June 3rd, 2007

But where's Sylvester P. Smythe?

What are the five most annoying banners on the Internet? Cracked has the answer over here.

Takeaway for marketers: Yeah, it’s funny. But read it closely: There’s a lot of truth in there.

Standards! Standards!

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Tommorrow, tommorrow, I love ya, tommorrow, your correct spelling is only a letter away

You might have seen this on Drudge: That’s a photo of Hillary Clinton speaking at the Silicon Valley Leadership Summit in Santa Clara, California.

The speech was given this past Thursday, the same day 13-year-old Evan M. O’Dorney of Danville, California, won the Scripps National Spelling Bee. The winning word was “serrefine,” which coincidentally is also not the way one spells “tomorrow.”

Maybe one of those new jobs she’s talking about could be, ummmm … proofreader?

Quote o’ the Day

Friday, June 1st, 2007

George Orwell

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”
George Orwell