Link update – 06/03/08

Blog related

• Interview with Chris Anderson re. new book (Advertising Age)
• Studying how to become famous on the Internet (Time)
• Post-production product placement (Guardian blog)
• How to google bomb (Wired wiki)
• Improving Innovation (Economist)
• Why the Absolut campaign worked (Neurosciencemarketing)
• The charm of Wikipedia (New York Review of Books)
• Brand marketing the Presidential candidates (Salon)
• 24 ways to market in Facebook (InsideFacebook blog)
• Trent Reznor on online music distribution (CNET)
• Pitchfork to launch online TV channel (press release)
• Google and innovation (Strategy-Business)
• Service for students to rent textbooks (business)

Random

• Aquanaut game (MiniClip)
• Kitkats of the world (Flickr)
• Posters for Best Picture Oscar winners (Movieposteraddict)
• 10 largest oil spills (Envirowonk)
• Single sex education (New York Times)
• 5 works of architectual genius (Weburbanist)
• Chef cons US TV (BBC News)
• Download the beta of Internet Explorer (product launch)
• 10 films sweded in the style of Be Kind Rewind (Always Watching)
• Sites with only one function (single serving) (kottke)

Of the links listed, I was tempted to write a separate blog about Pitchfork TV. In short I think it is a brilliant idea – it is a logical progression, it ties in well with the core of the site, and it is a function that is (to my knowledge) not currently being served elsewhere. I’ll probably write about it once it has been going for a few weeks, to see if the “sausage” matches the “sizzle”

sk