Overnight success takes a long time…
Overnight success takes a long time. To quote Daft Punk - work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger, more than ever, hour after hour, our work is never over.
from blog of Spotify
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Much more than what it looks like. |
Overnight success takes a long time. To quote Daft Punk - work it harder, make it better, do it faster, makes us stronger, more than ever, hour after hour, our work is never over.
from blog of Spotify
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
—Vilhjalmur Stefansson, "Discovery", 1964 Canadian explorer & ethnologist (1879 - 1962) (via)
What you think of it?
After receiving a BFA in Photography from the University of Arizona in 1984, Joel began working as a commercial photographer in Denver, Colorado. His style of capturing portraits has earned him the attention from many of the nations finest Advertising Agencies and Art Buyers. Over the years, his assignments have taken him to nearly every state across America and to over fifty countries across the globe. In 1991 Joel produced his first national-interest coffee table book, Navajo, Portrait of a Nation. This book received a number of photographic and graphic design awards as well as an eighteen-month solo exhibit at the Smithsonian American History Museum.
You can find actual examples of his work from the official joelgrimes.com and also from his Flickr gallery.
Found via plsr.net
Andy Burkhardt at Information Tyrannosaur provides Four Reasons Libraries Should be on Social Media. He argues that libraries should take advantage of these new technologies with the following purposes in mind:
- Communication
- Respond to Positive/Negative Feedback
- Marketing/Advertising
- Understanding Users Better
Are you optimistic at all about how this financial crisis is going to play out?
I'm on the record having said this is unlike other crises, and it's the most serious crisis we've faced and it will have long-term repercussions. It's the end of an era, and there will have to be major adjustments. Those who expect that we will return to business as usual don't understand what's happening.
Some ideas from Chris Brogan:
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/50-ideas-on-using-twitter-for-business/
Use some software tools like TweetDeck to help with your communication:
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/
If you have already used Twitter for some time, you can find some
interesting statistics with TweetStats:
http://tweetstats.com
For Finnish people, I recommend reading Twitteristi:
http://twitteristi.blogspot.com
If you are interested to follow my feed, it's also possible:
http://twitter.com/autiomaa
“Whitespace,” or “negative space” is the space between elements in a composition. More specifically, the space between major elements in a composition is “macro whitespace.” Micro whitespace, is—yes, you’ve guessed it—the space between smaller elements: between list items, between a caption and an image, or between words and letters.
Hannu Ala is good friend and a freelancer musician who plays the
piano, composes, arranges, notates, mixes and produces music.
More about him from:
http://www.last.fm/music/Hannu+Ala
http://www.ala.fi

Not sure what to say about this… if you understand Finnish, you
understand how badly someone has used English-Finnish dictionary with
no real skills of either language. Hopefully… there is hope for people
using Facebook to see even some well-written ads.