Author Archives: jted
Hey, I Just Wanted To Say Thanks For That Stuff You Made. I Really Liked It.
I’ve been listening to an interesting audio book read and edited by Seth Godin, called The Big Moo. It is a series of essays on being remarkable, written by some heavy hitters like Malcolm Gladwell (author of The Tipping Point and Blink) and Guy Kawasaki (author of Art of the Start). There are over 30 [...]
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Is it a Boy or a GURL?
Soon it will be commonplace for parents to do a quick domain name search before settling on a name for their children. If the name is not available, they may tweak the name slightly: William Smith suddenly becomes Willyum Smith because WillyumSmith.com is available. More kids will be named after ‘nic’s, like jted72, or james007. [...]
Ten Ideas for Where to Find Future Celebrity Baby Names
1. Baking books. Children named after types of bread.
Pumpernickle
Rye
Keiser
2. Periodic Table. Whipper-snappers named after cool elements from the periodic table.
Californium
Tungsten
Boron
3. Martha Stewart Colours Rugrats named after domestic diva swatches.
Shoji
Beryl
Cameo
4. Oranges Ankle-biters named after varieties of oranges.
Satsuma
Mandarin
Clementine
5. Architectural Books Wee-willie-wonkas named after terms used in buildings
Transom
Ashlar
Mortise
6. Unix Reference Mini-geeks named after a programming language which will [...]
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Martin Redux
“My father was Judge Gomery”
Check out this wonderful Prime Minister Martin Mash-up from the crazy-talents of Mike Nowland aka slowmotionlandscape aka Secretarial… Then poke around the site. You will be blown away by the volume and dope stylings of this blog of blogs.
Sorry, but you kinda hafta be Canadian to get this one…
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WARNING: Mirrors!
D bought a little IKEA bathroom mirror. Inside the package (it’s a mirror, but you still have to put it together) was a paper with a dire warning. I decided to apply my atrophying 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes™ to come up with titles for this wonderful work of paranoid and litigious art:
1) The Deathstar [...]
The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR
I have finished Part One of this book, The Fall of Advertising and the Rise of PR. Al Ries and his daughter Laura present a good argument against advertising with plenty of current, real world examples of exorbitant spending and pathetic results.
“What strategy does your advertising agency suggest?” we recently asked the CEO of [...]
iChair + MacinTalk
The name Stephen Hawking evokes awe. He’s got a best seller that’s also been made into a movie. He has his own Simpsons action figure. He’s been a guest hologram on Star Trek TNG. He’s got a [fake] hip-hop album. And he’s the most famous celebrity scientist since Einstein. What have you done lately?
With [...]
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Top Ten Worst Blog Book Titles
10. Blog-o-rific!
9. The Blogs Must Be Crazy
8. Go, Blog. Go!
7. My Life as a Blog
6. The Blog Whisperer
5. The Complete Book of Blog Breeding
4. Blogging for Apples
3. It’s a Blog, Blog, Blog, Blog World
2. The Curious Incident of the Blog in the Night-Time
1. Who Let the Blogs Out
Biz Stone is a great blogger and a [...]
The Josh Kaufman Personal MBA Program
I decided to pursue a career in advertising because you get to use both sides of your brain: the creative side (for idea generation), and the rational side (for strategic application). I’m a practicing Creative Director, but it’s the suits, the ones with the MBA’s that get to claw their way up to CEO.
For a [...]
How to Brainstorm Right Now (republished)