AprilApr 29 Tuesday 08
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In answering a question on LinkedIn today, I started thinking about PR campaigns on Twitter -- specifically the presidential candidates. Also, how this relates to utilizing social and viral marketing as a whole.
Two case studies for utilizing Twitter for PR campaigns: …
AprilApr 23 Wednesday 08
AprilApr 2 Wednesday 08
I have long been fascinated by the numbers of the universe. The vast, immense, enthralling numbers. When I consider the distances and masses of advanced theoretical physics, my mind is absolutely amazed. It fuels my passion for this science.
I lean back and consider …
FebruaryFeb 16 Saturday 08
FebruaryFeb 14 Thursday 08
When you care enough to be ironic, send the very best. Nothing says "I love you" like the time and effort it takes to type your email address in a web form and hit submit. If you're really in love, try actually copying the image into a new email message manually.
God …
FebruaryFeb 13 Wednesday 08
Yesterday was Darwin Day. You missed it and I forgot to publish my post about it. I hope you remembered Charles Darwin, who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process …
OK, I'm not really. But apparently Jack Worthington is.
Meet the man who claims to be the long lost son of JFK. Worthington has just made his entrance into public life by talking to papers in his home of Vancouver. There is no DNA evidence yet, but he claims his mother …

I'm not sure what the story is on these fly Obama kicks but I need a pair. Do you think I could pull them off?
What would the McCain shoes look like? Velcro lunch lady sneakers maybe? With premium bridge support.


FebruaryFeb 12 Tuesday 08
FebruaryFeb 11 Monday 08

...at the Grammys, that is.
Although I'd love to hear this chap sing some karaoke anytime, it was a spoken-word award for "The Audacity of Hope" that Barack Obama picked up a Grammy -- edging out Bill Clinton. It's actually Obama's second Grammy, but now he and Amy …
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I get literally thousands of emails per hour begging -- no, pleading -- with me to make an iPhone-optimized interface to Vocino.com.
It goes something like "Oh please Travis, I absolutely can't live without your content for 10 seconds. I need to check your site from …

I'm a big fan of OpenID. I'm also a big fan of neat packages where everything is branded beautifully clean-like. (Did that make sense?)
I dig custom Basecamp URLs, for example. In the same way, I also dig branding my OpenID url. This means instead of using the …
FebruaryFeb 9 Saturday 08

Stephen Spielberg finally deigns to make a video game with game creator Louis Castle. And it's for the Wii! Though the game won't be available until May, the trailer has just been released to much online buzz.
If you pictured what it might look like already while …

Beginning in May of 2008 sellers on eBay will no longer be allowed to leave negative feedback about buyers.
Oh man. I've left some fucking negative feedback in my day. Oh yes.
Isn't that the whole idea though? Isn't the eBay feedback system supposed to operate as a …