Archive for May, 2013
On a planet overstuffed with advertising and marketing messages, sometimes the best way to cut through the clutter is to startle your audience. Like a splash of cold water in the morning, edgy content can wake the masses and build buzz in a truly unique way. But what’s racy to one person may be raunchy to another. What’s offbeat to you may… Read More…
It’s been said that the key to becoming an expert in any field is to practice that specific task for 10,000 hours. But that’s a lot of time and your schedule is tight, so instead of dumping that workload on you, we talk to the experts, glean the most valuable morsels of their expertise, then condense that knowledge into one informative and… Read More…
There’s something to be said for guilty pleasures; you know, those TV shows, movies, or songs that are so bad they actually wind up being good. That’s why we asked a low-quality content site to give us a book report on “Of Mice and Men” a couple of months ago, and it’s why we’ve now asked another,… Read More…
It’s been said that the key to becoming an expert in any field is to practice that specific task for 10,000 hours. But that’s a lot of time and your schedule is tight, so instead of dumping that workload on you, we talk to the experts, glean valuable morsels of their expertise, and then condense that knowledge into one informative and… Read More…
It’s been said that the key to becoming an expert in any field is to practice that specific task for 10,000 hours. But that’s a lot of time and your schedule is tight, so instead of dumping that workload on you, we talk to the experts, glean valuable morsels of their expertise, and then condense that knowledge into one informative and… Read More…
Reddit bills itself as “the front page of the Internet,” and while that bold boast works better with people over 22 — ya know, the ones who actually understand a print newspaper reference — there is a smidgen of truth to it. If something goes viral these days, odds are it passed through this share-happy, San Francisco-based behemoth of a site.… Read More…
Billions of dollars have been spent to get the Internet’s attention, only to discover the one surefire way to get that attention is to be cheap and shameless. We refer, of course, to festooning your articles with pictures of cats. The Internet loves cats. If you’re selling cats, you’re pretty much done here. If you aren’t… Read More…
When Henry Ford wanted a portable cup holder, he built the automobile. When the Wright brothers longed to see a small package of peanuts soar, they invented the airplane. And when Bill Gates wanted to see his favorite colors, royal blue and off white, splashed across computer screens all over the world, he made Windows.