A brief Interview on Frontier Airlines ... first flight from Knoxville to Denver! I was on my way to Aspen for a consulting assingment and they grabbed me for an interview! What fun, especially since it really is a great airlines!
Here is what I am reading today:
“Single-page websites have been commonplace on the web for a few years now. First made popular by designers seeking a clean, simple way to showcase portfolios, the one-page website now has a number of uses, including advertising software and promoting events. It’s a great way to have a large impact with a small amount of content.”
“Recently, I presented new research about the adoption and use of social media in America, at Blogworld in New York. There are three facts from that study that I suspect will surprise you—and which, taken together, should cause you to completely rethink how you use social media data. “
“Look up in Times Square and you’ll see the earliest version of a banner ad. Real estate developers pay massive sums to secure air rights for the empty space above buildings. Monetizing by building up (as opposed to out) in crowded areas like Manhattan, they also get to dictate what advertisements appear in the air that they control.”
“We may have never found out about the lewd photo of Rep. Anthony Weiner had he simply avoided a rudimentary Twitter mistake: sending a direct message instead of a public @reply.
In the Monday press conference where Weiner admitted to sending the now infamous photo (confirming that it is of him), the congressman said, “Last Friday night I tweeted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I had posted to Twitter, I panicked, I took it down and said I had been hacked. I then continued to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.””
Here are a number of helpful links.
My sister Kristin and often research collaborator says she will be talking about her hobbies like skydiving and scuba diving as well as family standbys like American and cuisine from around the world. Here’s a ‘taste:’
“pace, the final frontier…for cucumbers? We are totally missing out on our opportunities to grow space fruit now that we don’t have a space program. Meh. But that doesn’t stop us from appreciating the wonders of outer-space SciFi as Super 8 hits theaters with a few surprising twists: non-cheesy special effects that actually apply to the plot, no product placement, and, gasp, a STORY! Loved this movie! But if you can’t get out to the movies, check out the previews for this sweet system. Hopefully this one is hacker free. Otherwise, this is how we’re going to all have to start paying our bills. Still trying to figure out how this is a crime…”
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