Test Post

Where and how to post picutres in blog posts:

Practice What You Preach

Okay, so the camera phone picture is lousy, but it's clear enough to see that there's not URL listed in this as that I found in the back of a recent issue of Money magazine. That's a problem for any business circa 2006, let alone one promising to make you boatloads of money by marketing...on the Internet.

It's a Small Blogosphere, After All

Hello, My Name is BLOG meet the Hello, My Name Is...blog and hellomynameisblog.com.

Hollywood as the new Detroit

Jerry Seinfeld speaking at the FourSquare conference:

“I think of the entertainment industry and Detroit similarly,” Mr. Seinfeld said as he dressed down the television executives in the room for not being bolder in their programming. “They don’t have confidence in their instincts. Maybe they don’t have instincts to be confident in?”

The Times on MTV's Laguna Beach

Anyone out of high school forced to watch more than an hour of “Laguna Beach” might possibly feel the urge to beat themselves about the head with a large stick.

Speaking from personal experience, I'd say it's more like five minutes...

I also like this, from MTV flak about local complaints about the way their town is being depicted:

“This show is about seven kids whose parents consented to their involvement and who themselves consented,” Ms. Black said. “We never represented this show as depicting the town of Laguna Beach.”

Right. That's why it's called "Laguna Beach"!

The problem with online video ads

I just watched a one minute, 13 second-long video on The New York Times, but before I did I had to watch a 30-second ad. That's too much ad for not enough content.

So I have to wonder how YouTube could ever do pre-roll ads, even 10 or 15-second ones. A key to YouTube's success is its speed and any little speed bump means fewer videos watched. I, like everyone, am curious to see what Google will do here.

Testing

1...2...3...First mobile post.

All Brookes are Not Alike

Unlike some people, I love the New York Times. That's why I cringe when I see the embarrassing results of its love for meaningless internal links. Having a dumb machine populate stories with useless links wastes readers' time and hurts the Times' credibility.

In this story about FHM and Brooke Hogan, the Times offers this link off of Brooke.