The Legislative Assembly hereby declares it is the public policy of the State of Oregon to forever preserve and maintain the sovereignty of the state heretofore existing over the seashore and ocean beaches of the state from the Columbia River on the North to the Oregon-California line on the South so that the public may have the free and uninterrupted…
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April 29th, 2008
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April 28th, 2008
Logobama, Week 8As we head into the final month or so of primaries, let’s look back at the previous eight weeks of Logobama.com action. Week 8 was a fairly slow one. Wonder if heading into the Oregon primaries (where we live) will make any difference… Total Number of Visitors to Logobama.com ———- New vs. Returning Visitors ———- Total Number of Logobamas Created vs. Deleted ———- Percent of Visitors Who…
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April 22nd, 2008
Are you what? Or are you why?
Brand is not what you say you are. Brand is what others say about you. In Perfect Pitch by Jon Steel (which I highly recommend), there’s a great quote from Phillip Khan-Panni… “…the audience is never listening to what you are saying. They are listening for what it means for them.” – Phillip Khan-Panni (from “Stand and Deliver,” quoted in “Perfect Pitch,”…
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April 21st, 2008
Turn the page.“We shouldn’t assume that the general viewing public is an idiot. We should try to evolve the medium by making intuitive systems that educate the user – not design to what level we think they can handle” — Joshua Davis (grabbed from the new-to-me InspireUX blog) We’ve been seeing this interactive page-flipping thing over the last couple years. Like this…
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April 21st, 2008
Logobama, Week 7Heading into the Pennsylvania primary, here’s what the polls show from Week 7 on Logobama.com Total Number of Visitors to Logobama.com ———- New vs. Returning Visitors ———- Total Number of Logobamas Created vs. Deleted ———- Percent of Visitors Who Created a Logobama ———- Total Contributions to the Obama campaign ———- Average Dontation per Logobama created
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April 18th, 2008
Friday MuxnessWe’ve updated the FindSubstance Muxtape for your listening pleasure. We’re also taking requests… leave them in the comments for the next Muxtape. We’ll see what we can do.
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April 16th, 2008
Coffee with Likemind, Friday, April 18Yes yes yes. Coffee with Likemind is upon us again. Friday, April 18th at 8am. Location is Stumptown Downtown (128 SW 3rd), back on the couches. Same rules as last time… you’re on your own for purchasing coffee; the group is responsible for interesting conversation. 8am is a tough time for me to make it, but hopefully you can get there.…
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April 14th, 2008
Logobama, Week 6Week 6 for Logobama.com hit a milestone: the 5,000th Logobama. In honor of this, we created a video… you can view it below: (RSS readers can view it here) Week 6 also brought in some traffic from Gawker.com as well as a few other new places. Several of them had comments along the lines of, “ha, someone put up a site where…
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April 8th, 2008
Deed brands.Continuing the idea of the future of communications and the talking less/listening more approach, here’s a great post on the Era of Deeds by Mark Barden, one of the partners of Eat Big Fish. The Spitzer Effect and the Era of Deeds “This is the Era of Deeds… Deeds tell us what you believe in far more than anything you say. Deeds…
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April 7th, 2008
Logobama, Week FiveBig week on Logobama.com thanks to links from notcot.org (seen here) and politico.com (in this post), along with the biggest one day total for visitors… April 2nd brought 2,700+ visitors. As of this writing, with the most recent data we have: Total Number of visitors: 18,660+ from 114 countries (fourth week: 13,510 from 106 countries) (third week: 12,140 from 105 countries) (second week: 10,745 from 101…
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