8th
April
2004
“To determine the 100 most important art works of the Century, I simply counted up the number of times a particular work of art was reproduced in the following history books. For example, the fact that Grant Wood’s American Gothic illustrates three art history books, while Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks illustrates five books is a pretty good indication that the experts consider Nighthawks to be the more important of the two. I also gave a work a few bonus points if it was displayed more prominantly than its peers, such as on the cover, or in color among mostly greyscale illustrations.”
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8th
April
2004
“It’s an amazing feat, given the increasing vitriol and hatred on both sides of the conflict. Everyone takes a risk attending these conferences. Anti-spammers have been shunned and despised for consulting with even the most repentant former spammer. And who’d want to be a spammer in a room full of spamhunters? Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs ó MSN, AOL ó and commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially in secret, these days the meetings are more public.”
posted in Email/Spam | Permalink |
8th
April
2004
“In the Independent, Andrew Orlowski reports that the Internet, the foundation on which much of today’s business is done, could collapse sooner than expected because of background noise caused by inactive, out-of-use computers.”
posted in Internet | Permalink |
8th
April
2004
“The Oregonian has launched a new look for the Sunday street-sales editions, going with mostly promos and one story start…”
posted in Journalism | Permalink |
8th
April
2004
“Öand sometimes more. All of the above ‘required’ information has given rise to the near necessity of the double-sided business card. We continually find ourselves sandwiched between ‘The type is too small,’ and ìCan we just addÖ’”
posted in Graphic design | Permalink |
8th
April
2004
“I did a lot of work on integrating advertising into content sites back when I was at HotWired. We were inherently an editorial organization, and there was a pretty strict separation between content and ads. But we fought a constant battle with the sales department, especially in the later years when the bottom fell out of the banner market…”
posted in Advertising | Permalink |
8th
April
2004
“It is clear that we are being pressured by clients who are insisting on digital while resisting paying for our added work and investment. It is also clear that if we are to survive, we must make a stand by insisting on added payment for our added services and expenses.”
posted in Photography | Permalink |
