March 2008
6 posts
“I recall even at the age of eighteen feeling very deeply that my admission to...”
– Dean of Yale Admissions, Jeff Brenzel ‘75, taking the words out of my mouth
"You can sell a book by its cover." →
via Brand Autopsy
Inside Google
One of the larger motivations behind the tech world’s fascination with Google is not necessarily what the company’s products are, but how they are made. This is why posts about the company culture, perks, 20% time, lifestyles of the leader triumvirate, internal valuations and stock pricings, etc. command so much of our attention in addition to coverage of say, a new online app.
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Until now, I wasn’t using many Firefox extensions to manage my work duties. I’ve been making efforts to increase my productivity with such shortcuts and utilities, though, so here are the extensions I’m finding most helpful:
Firebug is a mainstay for web developers, but I’m finding it useful in ad operations as well (speed testing, page element analyzing, CSS tweaking).
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“the more control you exert over your content, the more you lumber it with...”
– Cory Doctorow @ Information Week [via Gawker]
After AdMonsters, I returned home just to pick my belongings up and then leave again. My exodus took me, via car, on a half-country roadtrip from California to Kentucky, passing through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee. (Sadly, I missed SXSW this year due to all of the commotion and moving about, or else that would have been sandwiched into those activities.)
But, after a few...