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Everything You See is Fake

April 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

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Posted by toddand | Filed Under Advertising, Video

Newspaper Circulations Continue To Fall

April 30, 2007 | 2 Comments

What’s black and white, and ‘red’ less and less?

Below are the latest paid weekday circulations of the United States’ 20 largest newspapers, as reported today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. The percentage changes reflect the difference over a one-year period.

Note: 14 of the 20 realized a decline in circulation with the Dallas Morning News* dropping 14.3 percent. Also, of the six newspapers that gained circulation, only two (both New Yorkers) added more than one percent – the other four only increased by a fraction.

1. USA Today, 2,278,022, up 0.2 percent
2. The Wall Street Journal, 2,062,312, up 0.6 percent
3. The New York Times, 1,120,420, down 1.9 percent
4. Los Angeles Times, 815,723, down 4.2 percent
5. New York Post, 724,748, up 7.6 percent
6. New York Daily News, 718,174, up 1.4 percent
7. The Washington Post, 699,130, down 3.5 percent
8. Chicago Tribune, 566,827, down 2.1 percent
9. Houston Chronicle, 503,114, down 2 percent
10. The Arizona Republic, 433,731, down 1.1 percent
11. Dallas Morning News, 411,919, down 14.3 percent
12. Newsday, Long Island, 398,231, down 6.9 percent
13. San Francisco Chronicle, 386,564, down 2.9 percent
14. The Boston Globe, 382,503, down 3.7 percent
15. The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., 372,629, down 6.1 percent
16. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 357,399, down 2.1 percent
17. The Philadelphia Inquirer, 352,593, up 0.6 percent
18. Star Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul, 345,252, down 4.9 percent
19. The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, 344,704, up 0.5 percent
20. Detroit Free Press, 329,989, down 4.7 percent

*According to the AP story, “the Dallas Morning News is reporting for the first time since being censured in 2004 for misstating circulation figures. The Chicago Sun-Times has not yet resumed reporting.”

The AP also reported that comparable figures for Sunday newspapers fell 3.1 percent, according to the Newspaper Association of America.

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Posted by toddand | Filed Under Media, News

Elevator Speech and Song

April 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

It’s important to have an elevator speech prepared for questions about you, your company and/or your clients, but do you have an elevator song prepared? Or how about an elevator performance that includes guitar, violins, sax, French horn, xylophone and some magazine shredding. Good stuff. The group is called Arcade Fire. According to Time magazine (04/05/05), Arcade Fire was/is Canada’s most intriguing rock band. Thanks to John Dodds for bringing this video to my attention. As John said, “small is the new big.”

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Posted by toddand | Filed Under Music, Video

10 C’s of Social Media

April 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Nedra Weinreich of Spare Change recently wrote about the 10 C’s of Social Media - of which “confusing” was not one of them. She also posted a social media presentation that she gave at the Next Generation Social Marketing Seminar. Good stuff. Click through the presentation below.

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Posted by toddand | Filed Under Educational, Links, Media, Social Media

Design

April 28, 2007 | 3 Comments

While I’ve always been interested in design, I don’t think I’ve written about it yet. So, instead of crafting some clever post about design, I thought I’d share links to some of my favorite design things:

My favorite free fonts site
My favorite free icon source
My favorite affordable stock photography site
My favorite blog by a designer
My favorite blog about logo design
My favorite place to test color themes
One of my favorite blog designs

Anyone have other design-related sites to recommend?

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Posted by toddand | Filed Under Design, Links

250 Posts

April 28, 2007 | 9 Comments

Crazy. I just checked my stats and this will be post number 250. I forgot to do the usual 100th celebration post, so hurray for me on the 250th. I’m also at 275 comments (funny, that’s about how many spam comments I get a day), although many more were lost in the great domain changeover of 2006. My hits total a smidge over 100,000 of which 30,000 are unique. Not bad for nine months of blogging. Lastly, my blog is worth a whopping $274,930.98, according to Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog.

Thanks to my biggest supporters, readers and referrers:

Kami Huyse
Leo Bottary
Todd Defren
David Meerman Scott
Drew McLellan
Amanda Chapel
Patrick Schaber
Scott Baradell
Steve Miller
Andy Beal
Ziggy Kowalski
Mike Kowall and his “kolleagues”
Marjolein Hoekstra
Mark Woodman
Chris Brown
Greg Verdino
John Jantsch
Lee Odden
And all those who I missed.