February 2009
49 posts
My New Flickr Photo Policy for Commercial Use
Found here.
If you’d like to use any of my photos for commercial purposes (defined by me as for-profit sites but not including personal blogs that happen to run some AdSense ads) you may do so without contacting me in exchange for the following fees payable to my PayPal account (kohler@haystackinaneedle.com). Online Use: Include the following attribution: Ed Kohler - The Deets and link to...
I've discovered the Eden Prairie of Northern New... →
“This is where we stayed in San Pedro…with that slogan, we probably should...”
– Bud’s Belize Adventure
WatchJust watched The World According to Monsanto. Very interesting stuff. It focuses primarily on the efforts Monsanto is taking to become the single source of seeds used by farmers throughout the entire world by pantenting their own versions of seeds then driving out the rest of the market - including native plants. If you have 2 hours, give it a watch. Quality is proabably a bit higher if you...
“It’s incredibly disheartening that so many people seem to believe that you...”
– Edelman Digital’s Rick Murray describing the week that was, where CityPages, LikeMe.net, and Yelp got plenty of attention for the wrong reasons. As of htis writing, all three have at least one top-10 result on Google for their brand that reports on the dumb stuff they’ve done.
“Because they were often asked to advertise soon after receiving negative...”
– This would never happen on LikeMe.net, right?
The American Apparel photo pool on Flickr is... →
Watchvia Miami Fever
Doodledee Fixes StarTribune.com's Pagination... →
“Now let me tell you something that should scare you, no matter what business...”
– Rohit breaks it down. It explains why my virtual monopoly on TP blogging could get me through the global economic depression.
What Will the Market Pay for Reporting These Days? →
I’m holding my next post about CityPages hostage for net $50 (people can pay to have it go live or to spike it). It’s scheduled for Thursday. What will the market decide?
50 De-Stimulating Facts →
Out of everything in the stimulous bill, the National Review leads their story by bitching about funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Here’s the deal: 1/16,000th of the stimulous package went to artists who will likely immediately spend the money they receive, thus putting it back into the system in a 50,000,000 different ways - many of which will be taxed (thus bringing the...
Cargill's Pimping Truvia →
Here’s how you can grow your own, and where to buy starters.
“You seem to have a personal vendetta against City Pages and Village Voice Media-...”
– Heather from CityPages doesn’t like it when I pick on her employer (while not refuting any of the content of my stories). I wonder if she’ll take it personally when she gets a plug in this Thursday’s piece?
Seriously.
It’s purely coincidental that she commented today. I...
“So what’s needed here isn’t an iTunes for news reporting. iTunes isn’t the right...”
– This sounds like a great way to find out what the market will support.
“I was tickled this week to read the news that Google has set up shop (okay, a...”
– The Circle of Life
WatchBoston Globle looks at technology’s effect on “alone time.”
NSFW - You've been warned. Brace yourself. →
“So in down times, there isn’t a leveling effect across the market but...”
– The Shift to Quality
“Facebook has made it easier to set a user’s status. Get ready for streaming...”
– Facebook Opens Status API, Say Goodbye to Twitter (via somewhatfrank)
Facebook won’t kill Twitter until everyone decides that they want to use every platform to communicate with everyone in the same way. There are only so many Scobles. Other people like a few silos to their business,...
NSFW: YouStrip →
An online stripping version of American Idol. Submit your tits for a chance to win a modeling contract or an iPhone. Krystyna from Gdansk deserves to win this.
“About a year ago, though, she decided to “go big” in her effort to be more...”
– Impressive.
Right wing blog network Pajamas Media shuts down... →
jimray:
Lost money from day one, they are instead focusing on their TV efforts. With such compelling content as Joe the Plumber reports from Gaza, best of luck with that one.
It’s hard to beat this nugget:
Actually that part of our business has been losing money from the beginning, so the people getting their quarterly checks from PJM were getting a form of stipend from us in the hopes...