February 2010
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January 2010
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The Do's and Don'ts of Online Publicity, For Some...
lindsayrobertson:
[This is long and obvious, but it’s been driving me nuts for years. So here is my Guide to Online Publicity (For Dummies).]
There’s a question that has been bugging me for years: why are 99% of publicists and promotion/marketing people complete useless failures when it comes to blogs and online outlets? I keep waiting for the industry to figure things out and catch up, but it...
November 2009
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To Like Or Prefer?
I got approached with, “Are you a food blogger?” last night at The Good Luck Bar.
I was spotted - nevermind that he was already with another food blogger and whom I didn’t see until later. But there were a lot of questions. Sometime during the ensuing “conversation” I felt bombarded by something that came out of nowhere: “You don’t like Asians, do...
September 2009
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August 2009
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Bacon Chocolate Gift Box - Vosges →
It’s $62 but SO delicious. Do want.
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Receptionist Entry No. 19
Elderly Male Client: We have a daughter that we adopted a few years back ... she's going through her menstruating times right now.
The Receptionist: What? She'd tell you that?
Elderly Male Client: Well ... yeah, it's a natural thing, right?
The Receptionist [loudly]: I can't believe she told you she's been masturbating!
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“Hey hey hey!! Speak English!! We don’t speak Mexican in here!!”
– The Receptionist (Entry No. 18) while interrupting Salvadorian co-workers conversing in Spanish
July 2009
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May 2009
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April 2009
18 posts
WatchDingleberrycat is chasing his dingleberry.
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Knocking Out The Competition
The Bourgeois Pig is where I go for inspiration, ambiance and coffee. In that order.
Intelligentsia is where I go for coffee, ambiance and inspiration. In that order.
I run into Chris at Intelligentsia. Chris is the barista most of the time when I’m at The Pig. It’s because of his vibe and, quite frankly, taste in music - that I go there as much as I do when he works. The playlist is...
Tickets to Depeche Mode on Hollywood Blvd for... →
I fully expect a re-enactment of Where The Streets Have No Name. Oh yeah, that was U2.
March 2009
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UK Top Chef Twitter Challenge →
mbooth:
The Observer challenges UK top chefs to take part in a growing phenomenon of tweeting full recipes in the allotted space of 140 characters or less.
So a simple tomato sauce recipe (by Angela Hartnett, protege of Gordon Ramsay) would look like: Heat 4T olvoil. + onion/squashedplumtoms/tompuree/garl/sug/rosemary. Remv rosemary. Heat low30m. + Oil to srv.
Could be a cool challenge for...
Best Twitter Advice Ever →
jwphillips:
jorgeq:
Mark McGuinness gives some pointers in how to procure more followers on Twitter and while I don’t think there’s a secret formula in achieving overnight attention in the Twittersphere, these two simple rules of thumb are quite close:
To get followers — do interesting things away from Twitter
To keep followers — be interesting on Twitter
Couldn’t agree with this more.
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“I took this girl home last night and all I got out of it was two slices of...”
– The New Guy (Entry No. 2)
