Designer Dolls, Literally
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008As her final project for Central Saint Martins, designer Olivia Lee created a series of limited edition designer dolls, literally. Each figurine takes the likeness of an iconic designer of our time, including Zaha Hadid… … continue reading
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From Sentient to Responsive Cities
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008Fabien Girardin from MIT SENSEable City Lab has a fascinating presentation available online which describes how cities could become “responsive” thanks to new urban actors that can monitor activity real time. Technology like mobile phones… … continue reading
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Pic: Which Food Is Seasonal At Your Farmers’ Market?
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008Not all food sold at Farmers Markets can be considered ‘good’. Long-term refrigeration and heated green-house agriculture offset the environmental benefit of eating ‘local’. This sign at the Union Square market in New York seems… … continue reading
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Pic: Are The NYC Waterfalls A Little Bit Crap?
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008Team PSFK visited the waterfalls by Olafur Eliasson last weekend and they failed to make a splash. For a city full of proud architecture, the make-shift looking waterfalls looked rather amateur - the water flow… … continue reading
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A Truly Nonstop Train
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008We’re curious to see how/if this concept develops: Peng Yu-lun of Taiwan has designed a literally non-stop train system, employing a continuously moving main carriage and top-mounted boarding shuttles that slide on and off at… … continue reading
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Mygallons.com: Lock In Gas Prices Before They Go Up
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008Mygallons.com is a new service that lets you purchase gasoline at the current rate, and lock in that price for future fill ups. For example: you prepay for 100 gallons at $4.10 a gallon and… … continue reading
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The Greening Of Hollywood
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008LAist points us to a commendable urban redevelopment project now underway in Hollywood. The intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Gordon Street is home to a drab parking lot and an unused half acre grassy field… … continue reading
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TerraCycle Turns Your Last Bag Of Cookies Into An Umbrella, And More
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008TerraCycle made a name for themselves producing a line of plant fertilizer products that were organically made from worms and sold in recycled soda bottles. Not content to watch lots of other potentially reusable… … continue reading
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Lists in a post or post around lists
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008Why should you think about creating lists while writing a post?
Because it sells and it may fetch you a lot of one way links along with visitors. There is no doubt about that. Take a look at Smashing Magazine - you cannot ignore that, large and useful lists are one of the biggest reasons of their huge popularity. If you still have any doubt, take a look at their most popular posts - top 10 most popular posts are lists (you can find it in the ‘popular posts’ widget in the first side bar).
Wait, Smashing Magazine is not about lists alone. You must consider the quality of those lists. And you should also notice another important aspect of their content - almost all the posts are some sort of solutions or they have a visible application that is actually closing the sale (I mean links).
If your list is just the first few pages of Google SERP, it won’t sell much - if you don’t believe these words, try it yourself. Whenever you are creating a list, you are actually catering to a niche group of people who would bookmark the page for future use. Now, do you really think that, those people do not know about the elements of your lists already? They also use Google.
Another big reason of their success is the complete package - each of their posts are a complete package - glossy images, beautiful formatting and to the point. And they present you huge lists and cater mainly to the people who have some sort of web presence (going online for some information once in a while does not make someone webby); for example, designers, developers, bloggers etc. Do you have so many webby in your niche?
And there is a tendency - people like images - they like to bookmark images - they like to pass them to another friend. Now again, it all depends on your niche market and how you want to promote yourself. If you can hook your target audience with the content alone, like Matt Cutts or Seth Godin, there is nothing like it. But at the same time, you may also start thinking in terms of images.
What else! Smashing Magazine was not built in a day - and today, I do not need to give them a link to help you go there for further references. You already know their URL - that’s the power of brand and word of mouth promotion (they have got lots of them).
And Smashing Magazine is not the only player - there are hundreds of bloggers who think in the same line - successfully.
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PSFK Conference San Francisco Speaker Andrew Hoppin
Tuesday, den 1. July 2008We’re excited to have Andrew Hoppin, co-founder of NASA CoLab, joining us at PSFK Conference San Francisco 2008 on our “Collaboration & Co-Working” panel. Alongside Ezra Cooperstein from Current TV, Andrew will be discussing… … continue reading
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