Sometimes you may want to really express the feeling of a picture by emphasizing certain areas or saturating colors and exaggerating outlines. Sumi-e is a style of ink and wash painting developed in China during the Tang Dynasty. Literally ink painting, it is an art form that strives to distill the essence of an object…
What part of a graduate's costume gave the cordon bleu cooking school its name?
Yesterday Google unveiled a new addition to their Google Trends service. Google Trends shows the most popularly searched terms from the beginning of 2004 to now and charts a particular terms popularity throughout the different regions of the world. The new service is called Google Hot Trends and they hope this will share more insights…
Women Invent Things Too – Google Fixes "she invented"
Eariler this month there was an extremely popular story on Digg which told the story of a guy and an argument he was having with his girlfriend. In an attempt to prove him wrong, his girlfriend did what so many of us now do, she turned to Google for the answer: I was arguing with…
Chris Winfield in Investor's Business Daily
Yesterday I spoke to Pete Barlas from Investor’s Business Daily (regarding Microsoft’s recent acquisition of online ad firm aQuantive for $6 Billion) and my quick thoughts are in today’s paper: ….just Thursday, ad agency WPP Group agreed to buy 24/7 Media, another ad services company, for $650 million. Microsoft had been rumored to be mulling…
robots.txt: People Don't Always Want Search Engines to Crawl Their Content
What goes through your mind when you read about the silly lawsuits against Google accessing portions of your website? What do you think when you visit the Internet Wayback Machine and find hundreds of pages of your site in its full form (almost)? Most of you wonder what is going on in the minds of…
I'm a Verizon Action Hero!…or could've been
I heard about this neat viral thing that Verizon was doing where you could create your own movie starring yourself on the Internet. This seemed pretty cool to me and I figured I’d give it a try. I had a blast last summer with the Scissor Sisters music video going around that you could insert…
Chris Winfield on WebmasterRadio's 'Rush Hour'
Yesterday I did Rush Hour, which is an excellent Webmaster Radio show hosted by Neil Patel, Cameron Olthuis and Carolyn Shelby. I went on to discuss the recent fracas at Digg, how Ron Paul is ruining Digg, alternatives, Truemors (and whether or not it will damage Guy Kawasaki’s reputation) and why I am still not…
Is a Free Email Address Good for the Government to Use?
Today there was a story on CNN about the government offering a $200,000 reward for tips on the 3 missing soldiers in Iraq. In the story they had a picture of the flier that they are hanging up with the details: If you notice the email address is baghdadtipshotline@yahoo.com. Would you feel confident emailing in…
Improve your Permission Based E-mail Marketing Today
E-mail marketing can be one of the most effective sales and relationship building tools in your marketing arsenal. In this post, I’d like to stress the points of: 1. Why in-house email marketing is important 2. Effectively using your in-house list 3. Building your existing list on a consistent basis Why proper e-mail marketing is…