High Holy Mass of Contradictions

• 100 Shops you must visit 2008: Retail Week
  Great list of great stores as selected by retailers.
  (tags: shopping stores retail)
• i had a nightmare « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  Cutest LOLkitten ever. I will be revisiting this page often to die of cuteness.
  (tags: cute lolcats kittens!)

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• Maghound.com: Think Netflix, but for magazines : Ben Patterson : Yahoo! Tech
  Ooh, this is a good one. Note particularly the first part of the sentence: “And while I can’t say I’ve often had the urge to switch out subscriptions once I’ve settled on my favorites … given the chance, I just might (I’m looking at you, Esquire).”
  (tags: maghound magazines)
• Netflix-like model to work for magazine lovers? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET
  No long tail on this dog: “…The results won’t be nearly as deep as Netflix, which… has a library of more than 100,000 titles and a veritable arms race … to build better algorithms. Maghound is starting out with just less than 300 magazines… .”
  (tags: maghound magazines)
• Maghound to launch this September | Editechial
  “…Netflix was able to gain their dominance… by being the largest online advertiser for years in a row, they essiantially “bought” market share and customers. I don’t believe Maghound has the funding Netflix had…” It’s Time Inc. Not enough fund
  (tags: maghound magazines netflix)
• Maghound adopts the Netflix model for magazines « Curiously Persistent
  “Interestingly, the auditing bodies will be viewing these as single-sale copies.” I do think that’s one of the more interesting wrinkles in the whole model — it’s not technically a subscription, from an Audit Bureau standpoint.
  (tags: maghound magazines)

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• Readers Pick: 16 Sites for Web Design Inspiration
  (tags: webdesign inspiration design galleries)
• Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes
  (tags: css webdesign tips hacks design)

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• 16 Ways to Harness the Power of Pictures
  Certainly not all of these apply to all e-commerce catalogs — a good many of them would make little sense with magazines, for example — but this is a good list and should help spark some creative ideas about how to showcase products.
  (tags: ecommerce webdesign photography)

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• Behavioral Marketing for Audience Development
  My co-presenter posted the slides from our presentation out to SlideShare. Not sure how meaningful they are without the narrative, but here they are.
  (tags: marketing presentations behavioral_targeting conferences)

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• A Practical Guide to Branding
  Great high-level summary of the importance of branding and the difference between branding, advertising, and marketing - often misunderstood concepts.
  (tags: branding marketing)
• 2008 Design Trends
  A good compilation of some of what’s showing up repeatedly in various sites around the web.
  (tags: webdesign trends inspiration 2008 layout graphics)

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• Maghound: a Netflix for Magazines? - Advertising Age - MediaWorks
  (tags: magazines maghound)
• cabel.name: Maghound Mystery
  The folks at cabel.name detect price testing at the Maghound site. The comments on this blog post are as good as the entry itself.
  (tags: maghound testing)
• Maghound: Time To Offer Flexible Magazine Subscriptions
  Consumerist’s take on Maghound
  (tags: magazines maghound)

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Mangorita throwdown

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Is Addison’s mangorita the superior recipe or is Donna’s the ‘rita
done right? I don’t think I’ve sampled enough to say for sure. Back
for more.

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• Netflix’s social experiment. It’s time to come clean. | Technically Incorrect - CNET News.com
  Amusing riff on social commerce.
  (tags: behavioral_targeting netflix ecommerce)
• vegalicious » Blog Archive » Hearty Ravioli - delicious vegan & vegetarian recipes for compassionate people
  This looks awesome. I’ve been wanting to try to make ravioli. Must give this one a try.
  (tags: food recipes vegan)

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• Tag Galaxy
  Cool flickr tag visualization app. I could burn a lot of time there. Wow.
  (tags: flickr webapp)
• Information Design Patterns
  Amazing piece of reference work showing many ways of representing information visually and the best practices for each.
  (tags: interface diagrams design charts reference gallery UI)

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• Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource
  Yay! Webmonkey is back.
  (tags: webdesign tutorials web reference)

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• Amazee Project News | Amazee *beta*
  (tags: collaboration community web2.0 social networking)

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• brand tags
  Interesting experiment about the collective wisdom of brand perception.
  (tags: branding brands collaboration tags community marketing)

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• The Green Revolution In Magazine Publishing—Truth or Hype? | Circulation Management Magazine
  Why aren’t more magazine publishers printing on recycled paper?
  (tags: magazines recycling)
• Parental Fail « The FAIL Blog
  Jon sent me this and asked “we didn’t know each other then, did we?”
  (tags: drinks funny kids)

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• Lestat? « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  Best LOLcat I’ve ever seen.
  (tags: lolcats)

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• rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » When magazine publishers start acting like bloggers
  (tags: magazines blogging bloggers)

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• The All-You-Can-Read Subscription Offer - Blogs emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com
  Maybe this model is the “real” Netflix of magazines, in contrast to Maghound.
  (tags: magazines magazines.com maghound magazine)

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• blouses, button ups, tanks, and other tops for women from edge of urge boutique!
  Awesome stitched bird tank tee from Edge of Urge boutique online
  (tags: shopping clothing clothes)

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• winesmash.com
  My buddy Joe Hendricks just launched a new web site for wine comparisons and education.
  (tags: wine)

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Lance Armstrong speaking at Omniture Summit

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