As mentioned last year ( I'm really not ready to say that yet ), I'll be listing some of the great blogs that I've come to read through MyBlogLog. First time around, I only mentioned one blog. Mainly because Brian greeted me with open parenthesis and a link when I joined MyBlogLog. Since then, we've done two link exchanges and I've been steadily receiving about 10-15 hits per week from his blog alone. That's pretty impressive for this heavy turd of a blog. But then, it's a link with the word breasts in it, so I'm not sure how impressed I am with the pervs tainting my sphere of influence as MyBlogLog says. Anyhow, this time around your getting five blogs. Deal with it, enjoy it, I do.
1. Designers Who Blog. Authored by Catherine Cat Morley. I have a feeling this is one busy lady. Check out the blog, it's full of great design blogs from designers from every discipline. And it's updated almost daily. Soon she'll have her own social network of designers. Crazy man.
But a great read.
Linked to that is the infamous ( famous? ) NO SPEC blog. That's right, they don't speculate. Just kidding. The site is devoted to the accurate and demonstrable position of designers who refuse to do spec work.
For the most part I agree. It's guess work. It cheats clients of an effective and original design, while cheating the designers themselves of their own talents. It reduces the market value of design and it's integrity as a legitmate professional practice.
2. Adverteasment. Online television news. "When the Internet becomes TV, and the TV becomes the Internet, you will have here a compendium of what led up to that moment."
Authored by Andrew. He's male and addicted to stuff. No seriously, it says so in his profile. I think he's trying to figure out the difference between psychosis and paranoia, and how marketing can induce them. OK, I'm just kidding. "Cognitive Dissonance" & "Didactic Marketing," is what it says in his profile. Check it out. I know the answers he's looking for too, I'm not tell'in 'em tho.
3. Brett Petersel."Internet Rants & Raves." I like to drop by just for the random dish of topics. The site is very nicely designed as well. It's clean. 8)
I'm jealous too.
4. Five Blogs Before Lunch, Authored by Dave Ibsen. "The weblog companion of 5 meetings Before Lunch marketing consultancy." Now, I'm not sure what kind of readership they have outside of Mybloglog but, I really dig this blog. It always has fresh content and–well it's closely related to my professional interests. I usually find something no one else is writing. Which for me, is the best thing about blogging.
5. Finally-A Bowl of Stupid Yeah. I know, it's a fun name. Appropriate for some of us too. That's what drew me there in the first place–wait, what I meant was–ah never mind. This is a great blog. I stop by daily for my helping. It's Authored by Matthew, he's male and lives in Florida. That's all I know. I laugh out loud sometimes too.
There it is. Five more blogs from–yet another social networking blog. Which ironically, by defenition every blog is a social network. As long as your writing for something greater than yourself, it's a social network.
Wednesday, April 04, 2007
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Sunday, April 01, 2007
Zagat to write hotel reviews for priceline.com
March 21, 2007
Zagat will create exclusive online hotel reviews for priceline.com customers to access for free. Zagat Survey information will be available on priceline.com for hotels, restaurants and attractions in the United States and select international locations.
Priceline.com (Nasdaq: PCLN) today announced an agreement with Zagat Survey, LLC, under which Zagat will create exclusive online hotel reviews for priceline.com customers to access for free.
Zagat Survey information will be available for hotels, restaurants and attractions in the United States and select international locations. The Zagat information, combined with traveler reviews provided by priceline.com customers, covers over 600 cities and thousands of hotels, restaurants and attractions.
"Zagat is the world's leading provider of reliable and trusted survey-based travel information and Priceline.com is pleased to be the only travel reservation site to feature free Zagat ratings and reviews," said Brett Keller, priceline.com's Chief Marketing Officer. "We believe that Zagat's survey-based hotel reviews, combined with priceline.com's proprietary hotel star rating system and our growing database of reviews written by priceline.com customers who also have stayed at these properties, make priceline.com a premier destination for shopping and comparing top-brand hotels and prices."
Mr. Keller added, "We are also pleased to include Zagat Survey's reviews in the new Priceline Destination Guides. In addition to Zagat, these guides to popular cities around the world include travel reviews from priceline.com customers. With this rich blending of information and opinions, you can plan an exciting trip that includes the best restaurants, sights and attractions that a city has to offer."
Under the exclusive online content agreement announced today, Zagat will provide priceline.com with:
Zagat Survey's independent hotel reviews that include numerical ratings for a hotel's rooms, service, dining and facilities, along with a commentary on the property. Zagat ratings already appear for many hotels, and that number is expected to grow in the future. The Zagat hotel reviews are offered in addition to the information provided by priceline.com's proprietary hotel star rating system, hotel photographs, maps and descriptions, and the hotel traveler reviews provided by priceline.com customers who have stayed at the properties. Zagat reviews are incorporated throughout priceline.com's hotel shopping service.
The Priceline Destination Guides, Powered By Zagat Survey. This handy online travel guide features a useful combination of commentary and reviews supplied by Zagat and priceline.com's own customers. They'll tell you what not to miss, and what to pass up. The guide dishes on an area's top eateries – all the way from unpretentious corner bistros and pizzerias to ultra-trendy restaurants. Want some place to work off your meal? The Priceline Guide reviews various types of attractions, including museums, nightclubs, sports venues, sightseeing spots, historical landmarks and more.
Coming Soon – Printable Zagat Travel Capsules. Once available, these city-specific guides will be electronically delivered free of charge to priceline.com customers who have booked trips to top travel destinations. The printable Travel Capsules will feature Zagat ratings and reviews for restaurants, hotels, nightlife, attractions and shopping.
Friday, March 30, 2007
Turner To Eye Travel Channel
Turner, which currently owns TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network and Court TV, would "take a look" at Travel, says Mark Lazarus, president of Turner Entertainment Group. But much depends on terms of programming and other contracts between Travel and business partners. It would only be "natural," he says, to review Travel if it were to become available. Cox is acquiring Travel as part of a $1.3 billion sale of its 25% stake in Discovery to John Malone, chairman of Liberty Media.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
"Trusted Voices" coverage from foreign correspondents based in the Middle East, China and Latin America
The project will be called "Trusted Voices," and feature coverage from McClatchy foreign correspondents based in the Middle East, China and Latin America, among other regions.
Yahoo plans to launch the coverage on its news site early in the second quarter of 2007. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal.
One of the first projects is called "Inside Iraq," a blog written by Iraqi staffers based in McClatchy's Baghdad bureau.
McClatchy, which publishes the Miami Herald, Sacramento Bee and Kansas City Star, is one of the top U.S. newspaper publishers in terms of circulation.
Like many other publishers, it is searching for ways to make more money online as advertising and circulation trends at its print newspapers weaken.
McClatchy shares were down 19 cents at $31.42 on the New York Stock Exchange. Yahoo shares were down 26 cents at $31.29 on the Nasdaq stock market.
Monday, March 26, 2007
Time Inc. Kills Life Brand Will Live On Online as Photo Archive
Time Inc. Kills Life, Again
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- The hits to consumer magazines keep on coming: Time Inc. has pulled the plug on its latest attempt to revive Life magazine, the once-storied photo-heavy weekly that came back as a weekly newspaper supplement in October 2004. Its issue dated April 20 will be its last. FULL ARTICLE
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Single Sponsor to Allow ABC News to Air Ad-Free
CVS First Advertiser for 'Key to the World' Reports
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- ABC's "World News With Charles Gibson" will air without commercials four times in April, thanks to marketers who are stepping up as presenting sponsors, including CVS, following a deal via Hill Holiday.
The remaining sponsors are yet to be named. The commercial-free broadcasts will air on April 2, April 9, April 16 and April 23. Carat USA negotiated the remaining commercial support.
In addition to regular news of the day, ABC will air a series called "Key to the World," reported by Bill Weir. The deal will add five minutes to the broadcast and enable it to run ad-free on those nights.
World tour
The aim of the series is to open up areas of the world U.S. viewers may not know much about. The first special will look at the devastating effects of global warming on Kiribati, a nation of 33 islands in the Pacific Ocean.
The deal is a coup for ABC, which is battling NBC for the title of No. 1 evening newscast among 25- to 54-year-olds.The commercial-free broadcasts are a ploy to boost viewership. So far this season, NBC is pulling 2.9 million viewers in the 25-54 demographic, with a 2.4 rating/9 share, while ABC is within shouting distance, with 2.86 million viewers in the demographic and 2.3 rating/9 share.
NBC aired a commercial-free news broadcast late last year thanks to a Philips Electronics sponsorship. The move won NBC almost 4,000 positive viewer e-mails. Philips also did a single sponsorship of CBS's "60 Minutes."
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