linkdump for October

Here’s a few links to stuff I’ve read over the past month or so:

Advertising

• Deciding On The Advertising Media – good pros and cons list of different advertising mediums, but leaves out online advertising
• The On-line Marketer’s Secret Weapon: A Site that Works
• Salted Wound : Perfect Weblog Ads
• Seth’s Blog: Why Web Ads Don’t Work
• Fresh Inc: Creating Buzz

Macintosh

• MacMinute: RIAA may have sued the wrong (Mac) person
• “Dude, I could buy mad weed for $129.” – hah! too funny comment
• Letter from Cupertino – reflections from the first month of being employed at Apple
• Smart Playlists.com
• 15-inch Aluminum PowerBook G4 – Page 1 – (10/2003)
• The iPodlet
• decaffeinated: AppRocket – AppRocket is a complete copy (for Windows) of LaunchBar, a fantastic utility for MacOS X.
• Why do Bloggers prefer Macs? – question from the Scobleizer
• The Tao of Mac
• PithHelmet – An ad blocker hack for Safari from what I can tell (haven’t installed it, as I like to support tasteful advertising on the internet.)
• Leaves Rustle: Favicon Creation with GraphicConverter
• Safari Bookmark Exporter – what I am now using to build my link-dump posts
• Mac-Mike: Waiting to be opened
• kasia in a nutshell: The lost art of esthetics
• Lick Me, I’m A Macintosh

Business

• online advertising: sbb
• A Shareware Life – shareware marketing and everything else for shareware authors
• Suppose you could really figure out why advertising works.
• marketing/pricing myths
• Sole Proprietorships: "Sole Proprietorships"
• FCNow: What Business Are You In?
• Inc.com | What Kind of Business Should Your Business Be?
• Seth’s Blog: Traffic doesn’t matter
• A Penny For…: Firing Customers
• Sept. 15, 2003: The Seven Heuristics of Brand Aligned Organizations
• CapitalistBrief – Business News
• The Occupational Adventure (sm) Blog
• Inc.com | The 60-Day New Employee Survey
• Control Your Time: Time Management – BusinessTown
• BusinessPundit: The Value of Sales Experience
• Inc.com | Getting to No
• Cvent – Event Planning, Event Management and Online Event Registration Software – might need this someday
• Brain Brew Radio | Creative Business Thinking
• Inc.com | Better Methods
• BusinessPundit: Successful Implementation of a Corporate Culture

Design and Development

• How To: Score Higher in Google Search Engine
• Breadcrumbs PHP Class
• Julie Albertson | Thoughts | The problem with usability testing…
• Testing Slow User Connections
• AdMonsters – support and networking group for online advertising traffickers
• IDblog: an information design weblog
• Salted Wound : Perfect Weblog Ads
• Usable Digital Media ::: Web Application Usability Blog.
• Seth’s Blog: Helping Jack with web design
• Whitespace
• ClearSilver – HTML template system

Windows stuff

• Russell Beattie Notebook: Load Acrobat Faster
• Outlook Tips – very useful information for Outlook users
• AppRocket – still in Public Beta, but a very cool idea that is available on the Mac has been stolen and ported to Windows XP.

Misc.

• P.S. Fudgeworks – ummmm! Looks good…
• BARTON | FUNK – love this design firms entry page, had to note it.
• IDEA HOUSE – I like this advertising firm’s elevator speech
• American Girls — requires sound, so turn on your speakers (too funny)
• How to Write a Thank-You Note
• Kevin Kelly — Recomendo – totally cool idea, and a great read.
• A tidbit for Movable Type users
• eclecticism > Weblog Ethics
• Google News Creator Watches Portal. Quiet Critics With ‘Best News’ Webby
• the typewriter-keyboard conversion