The other day a colleague forwarded me a really interesting article by Amy Corr at Media Post entitled “Agency Taps YouTube For Corporate Use.” Now the title itself might not seem particularly newsworthy — agencies have been using YouTube since forever to promote products and build community. But I’ve never seen anything like what Charlotte-based ad […]
I’m a proud, long-time Scrabble nerd. And now the forces of evil are trying to mess with my game. I first got into Scrabble as a teen. I started with the standard fold-out board before upgrading to the deluxe model, which rotated on a base (no more looking at tiles upside down!). I later picked […]
If you’ve ever wandered the aisles of your local CVS looking for that perfect card to apologize for extensively underlining your friend’s copy of American Psycho, perhaps you’re just looking in the wrong place. That “perfect” card belongs to the subversive online greeting card company Someecards, along with cards about hernia operations, accidentally stealing your friend’s […]
This morning a design friend of mine sent me a great article called “World’s Best Headlines: BBC News” written by “usability guru” Jakob Nielsen. As the title suggests, Web writers could learn a thing or two from BBC’s headline-writing pros. Nielsen writes, “For several years, I’ve been very impressed with BBC News headlines, both on the […]
A strange illness is devastating bat populations throughout the Northeast, and few people seem to care. Some wildlife experts believe the lack of research dollars going toward the problem is due to the fact that, well, people generally don’t like bats. In a recent Boston Globe article, Beth Daley writes: Despairing bat biologists want to […]
And here are the answers from the previous post, where we invited readers to see how many famous movie taglines they could correctly identify. 1. “They’re young … they’re in love … and they kill people.” (Bonnie and Clyde, 1967) 2. “This is Benjamin. He’s a little worried about his future.” (The Graduate, 1967) 3. […]
We were really psyched to see a mention today in the Bostonist.com about our new Web spots for Down:2:Earth. See below for a snippet, or read the whole piece here. With MBTA hiking fares and the threat of rising gas prices, everyone could use a shorter commute to work. But living in your office? Down […]
Thanks to Shana Yansen who owns Jute & Jackfruit, an up-and-coming organic and sustainable clothing and accessory company for women, for giving us a plug in her latest blog entry about Down:2:Earth. Of particular interest to Eco-Fashion Gurus will be the two Eco-Fashion Shows to take place throughout the weekend: one at 4:30 on Saturday April 4, 2009 […]
She has an art show … and writes about herself in the third person. The Somerville Journal wrote a nice article about the show so you can read all about it here or just come by True Grounds and see it for yourself.
That’s right, The Hired Pens is now writing, shooting, editing and producing Web spots. Why? We wanted to add a little BOOM to our life of nouns and verbs. (Get it, boom?! If you were also making Web spots, you would.) Read all about our new venture and watch our latest videos here. Or, if you […]
