August 27, 2008
Automatic "Awesompersands"
Evan Gaffney: A Mind of Its Own
Presidential candidates - are states red and blue online?
Sources: De La Hoya-Pacquiao bout set for Dec. 6
skate - shot on red - 120 fps HD video, too. Looks amazing, and a great way to capture skating. I can’t wait to see a ski video shot this way.
Gustav death toll rises to 22 - msnbc.com I’m a sucker for umbrella-in-the-rain photos, but this one in Havana might be my new favorite.
Gustav death toll rises to 22 - msnbc.com I’m a sucker for umbrella-in-the-rain photos, but this one in Havana might be my new favorite.
Social Networking for Books: One Ring, or Loosely Joined?
In the final post in this series we cover Google Insights from Search and go back to good old keywords and mining search behavior by our customers to find actionable insights. Given the dominance of Search as a acquisition channel, you are going to have fun here. Do the obvious thing first: Understand “head” keyword trends. Type in a keyword and check out the trends over time, a quick peek into popularity of the terms you are interested in… . Google Insights for Search: Competitive Intelligence Analysis Really solid primer on using Google Insights to mine keyword trends. Google’s offered up a really powerful set of free tools for SEO/SEM folks. Let’s hope their populist vibe extends to eliminating some of the technological walls around the SEO/SEM experts.
In the final post in this series we cover Google Insights from Search and go back to good old keywords and mining search behavior by our customers to find actionable insights. Given the dominance of Search as a acquisition channel, you are going to have fun here. Do the obvious thing first: Understand “head” keyword trends. Type in a keyword and check out the trends over time, a quick peek into popularity of the terms you are interested in… .

Google Insights for Search: Competitive Intelligence Analysis

Really solid primer on using Google Insights to mine keyword trends. Google’s offered up a really powerful set of free tools for SEO/SEM folks. Let’s hope their populist vibe extends to eliminating some of the technological walls around the SEO/SEM experts.

A prized 1921 painting by the French cubist Fernand Leger has been lost - perhaps unintentionally thrown out - by Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center. (via A masterwork goes missing - The Boston Globe via Kim on Google Reader)
A prized 1921 painting by the French cubist Fernand Leger has been lost - perhaps unintentionally thrown out - by Wellesley College’s Davis Museum and Cultural Center. (via A masterwork goes missing - The Boston Globe via Kim on Google Reader)
“ When it comes to reading SEC filings, like Dante’s Inferno, there’s definitely levels circles of hell. And bylaw changes clearly qualify as being close to the center of the earth because of the legalistic language that takes more than a few cups of coffee to get through. But yesterday, Apple (AAPL) filed this 8K with some fairly extensive changes to a section of its bylaws and since everything that Apple does — except apparently changes to its bylaws — is met with lots of navel-gazing, the coffee grinder was working over-time this morning.
footnoted.org - On Apple and Dante’s Inferno…
It’s almost as if the low tier is waiting for the other two tiers to catch up after dropping so severely between months 8 and 9. Looks like another month or so and the mid and high tiers should be pretty close in terms of total decline from peak. So has the low tier bottomed out, or is the flatness of March-June just the best “spring bounce” that could be mustered? We’ll find out soon enough as we crawl into the summer and fall. via Case Shiller Tiers: A Flat Spring Bounce (Seattle Bubble)

It’s almost as if the low tier is waiting for the other two tiers to catch up after dropping so severely between months 8 and 9. Looks like another month or so and the mid and high tiers should be pretty close in terms of total decline from peak.

So has the low tier bottomed out, or is the flatness of March-June just the best “spring bounce” that could be mustered? We’ll find out soon enough as we crawl into the summer and fall.

via Case Shiller Tiers: A Flat Spring Bounce (Seattle Bubble)

Seattle Geek Girl Dinners
August 26, 2008
Sneak Peak at 1310 E Union #202 (urbnlivn)
I had a Google Alert running against this modern awesomeness for a while, and today it found a pocket listing for #202 on Zillow, which should soon list on the MLS. Sadly, it is beyond my humble means—I was hoping the non-view units would be cheaper. It’ll be interesting to see if it sells quickly for a $400K/3yr markup since last sale, since it’s not a view flat (most of the rest are).
JSM’s most recent art-directed blog post about typography. Beautiful design and a great point about design history much richer than the web.
JSM’s most recent art-directed blog post about typography. Beautiful design and a great point about design history much richer than the web.
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Boston.com
Large Hadron Collider nearly ready - The Big Picture - Boston.com