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create. and. consume.

Purposeful twentysomething.

Likes: the design of everyday objects, stories, crude garment construction, rearranging furniture, music in spanish, good movies, cooking and eating meat, cutting up fruit, costumes, redwood trees and rolling hills, recommending holes-in-the-wall, not paying full price on beautiful things.

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September 23, 2009

How I'd monetize at least part of YouTube, if I were still at the Goog

Sell. CDs. From. Indie. And. Commercial. Artists.

Sell. DVDs. Next to. Movie Trailers.

Take a small percentage of the sales revenue. There's got to be a huge population of people who watch movie trailers, music videos, covers of popular songs, and original work by indie artists trying to get exposure. Relatively, the sample players on Amazon and Barnes and Noble suck so bad. This is the perfect way to test drive media before buying - if Google just brought it all onto one platform and standardized the checkout/distribution process.... just think. Omg. They'd be even richer than they already are.

I guess they already sell mp3s, but I think it's about getting all these people who make new music and don't have a good way to distribute it, make it buyable.

Just random brainstorming on a Wednesday evening.

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September 10, 2009

So normally I'm not this competitive...

...oh, who am I kidding. Of course I'm competitive, especially when it comes to building traffic for my fashion blog, Wearability. I was curious so I graphed out the yearly traffic charts for four leading fashion blogs (also my favorites):

garancedore.fr
fashiontoast.com
lovemaegan.com (kind of a mash of style and flabber-gasting DIY projects)
seaofshoes.com (compete wouldn't let me graph more than 3, but its chart looks similar to lovemaegan's.

I'm pretty fascinated by the growth curves and want to go back and analyze what was happening on those sites to drive the growth, or if it was external factors like press mentions and kanye west's recommendation. I think I have spent a little too long in the internet marketing world, where it is all metrics and levers and optimization.

At any rate, this quick study gives me a bit of hope - looking at it, it's obvious that all sites, great and small, have to start somewhere. I think it's important what you do to build momentum, how you sustain it, and whether you're publishing things that really speak to people.

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July 26, 2009

Sign of the times

You know something's up when my favorite burrito place is on Twitter, Facebook and MySpace O_o.

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July 9, 2009

I'm sure Posterous users are all in the 8% of people who know what a browser is...

I know that ignorance is actually great for online business (especially in my specialty, internet marketing...because it means more people will click on ads thinking they are search results).

But for some reason this video depresses me to no end. Maybe because at the end of the day, an ignorant public is actually terrible for everyone. For me it really hits home just how uninformed the general public is and how much harder it is to get people to respond to your products in the way you intended.

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June 19, 2009

Google Reader is srsly the sheeeeet.

I guess I was pretty bad about keeping up with different websites before, but lately there have been more and more blogs and sites that I find myself wanting to keep up with. Even the usual five - garancedore.fr, fashion toast, sea of shoes, newmoonmovie.org, apartmenttherapy.com, have been really hard to check on regular rotation. And then there are the plethora of other fantastic sites that just go ignored and unread.

I am so late to the Google Reader party - I don't know why I avoided using it for so long. It is seriously one of the best products that Google puts out (and they put out a lot of neat stuff don't they?). I guess I didn't realize just how much it could streamline my blog-reading and online content-reading experience.

I'm sure most of you are using it already, being early-adopter types, but in case you aren't, I highly recommend it!

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April 27, 2009

Track the swine flu on Google Maps

Interact with the map here. I <3 Google Maps.

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April 17, 2009

Andrew Keen has a talent for stating the obvious.

I don't know why he talks about the death of Web 2.0 and the rise of individualism like it's something new. It's the way it's always been - people who have the talent will dominate and people without talent will follow. What is so groundbreaking about his observation and why are people so offended by the prospect of the Internet NOT being democratized?

It's funny, the first time I watched the video I thought he was saying "digital fascism and digital futilism" rather than feudalism. That would be a lot more interesting. Check out the full story here.

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February 22, 2009

Finally added Google Analytics to my Posterous.

Apologies to Garry and Sachin for not realizing earlier how easy this was to do. I guess it was such a pain to add the tracking code to my old blogspots that I just kept procrastinating even though I was curious to find out what kind of traffic I was getting on posterous.

Well, the boys have done it again! They make it so simple, easy and elegant, that I think it's kind of tragic how long I've been putting this off and I now wish I could get back all those lost days of untracked blogging. Here's the play-by-play:

1. Sign up for Analytics. It's fast, easy and free at: analytics.google.com.

2. Add a new profile (towards the bottom of the management pane)

3. Fill in the domain and click "finish"!

4. Copy the domain ID (the UA-XXXXXX-X number)

5. Go to the "manage" tab of your posterous and click "Edit Settings"

6. Paste the domain ID in the box under "Google Analytics."

You're done! I didn't even have to touch the tracking code at all. Works so beautifully it brings a tear to my eye.

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February 17, 2009

Nerds of the world unite.

Robots FTW! One of the high school students I interviewed for my admission to my alma mater this year has been really involved in this crazy robotics competition that is held every year by US First.

Teams of students design robots for gameplay, which involves picking up these multi-colored balls and shooting them at designated targets. Robots are big - human-sized! - and the arena is like a small stadium, thronged with people.

I kind of want to go watch it.