Stuff _____ people like

March 30, 2008 Leave a Comment

If you haven’t caught wind of this new blog trend, then you must continue reading.

It all started with “Stuff White People Like” — a rather brilliant idea for a blog/site, if you ask me. The site’s about us page explains the site as follows:

This is a scientific approach to highlight and explain stuff white people like. They are pretty predictable.

Not only well though out and verbose (or not), it surely possesses stopping power — almost as much as Overheard in __. As you can expect, the site has caused quite a stir online and offline, with the site gaining free PR from tons of outlets (now including myself). Now there have been a bunch of copycats as well as bloggers listing potential expansions to the idea. Read more of this post

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Online Ethics?

March 17, 2008 Leave a Comment

Are these words opposites of one another — oil and water? Do people have ethics online, because it sure doesn’t seem that way.

Andy Sernovitz write about the 11 Magic Words that can solve all your problems.

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10 seats for $10, now that’s friendly skies

March 13, 2008 Leave a Comment

Skybus logoIt seems that there is finally a US based airline that truely understands low fare. Yeah there is JetBlue and Ted and others, but none of those are really cheap.Look at EasyJet and RyanAir, they are selling tickets in Europe for just a few Euros/Pounds, your total cost is higher due to taxes, but that’s not their fault.

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What I want to accomplish in ’08

March 10, 2008 4 Comments

Doug has written a recent post with his goals (BHAG) for 2008. After reading these for a few weeks, I am compelled to do the same, though maybe not as extensive as his. I feel like 10 things in 1 year (or 9 months) is a good start. So, in no particular order:

  1. Study for/take the GMAT. TBD if I want to go to B-school and when, but this is the first step.
  2. Seriously consider buying an apartment when I get back from Germany
  3. Push myself beyond my comfort zone as I move to a new brand/position with Unilever upon my return from Germany. It is very easy to relate to the Axe target.
  4. Enjoy the summer. Get to the beach, my parent’s pool, concert, and more.
  5. Learn a bit about coding. The basics/difference of/between PHP, ASP, CodeIgniter, AJAX, RubyOnRails, Java Script
  6. Live healthier. Get back in shape, exercise more, east better.
  7. Though slightly contrary to the point above, party/do more. I am young, living in Hamburg/NYC, there is no reason to be so boring (besides money). This doesn’t have to be drinking, it can be cultural events, museums, opera/ballet, live music (besides headline acts), reading, seeing independent movies
  8. Go somewhere cool. A film festival, a web conference, ski somewhere out of the ordinary, travel to South America, get to TED or All Thing Digital (given my financial situation I expect that I can only do one of the above)
  9. Expand my network – make use of technology and face to face opportunities to network with people. Utilize LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, my blog, Pounce, Flickr, and more.
  10. …. – I am going to leave this one open-ended, if I don’t I feel like I am trapped in and can’t pick something else along the way.

Do you think I’m missing anything? Any that you would change or remove? I’m all ears.

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