Good day for you readers. I recently came across two super fantastic sites. Trendspotting and print buying. Type and bookmark Springwise. Over 8,000 trendspotters from around the world send in the newest in funky, useful, innovative entrepreneurial ideas and companies. Currently, the site splits the posts into 20 industries including marketing and advertising, style and design, [...]

A good story with good visuals. That elusive combination is as difficult as finding comfortable womens shoes that are also fashionable. Often, the best you can hope for is one or the other. Good story. Good visuals. Dansko clog or Alexander McQueen Sock Sandal. Thanks to photographer Didier Lefevre, you no longer have to make [...]

Industries are tripping over themselves to develop innovative ways to make money, use social media, keep their day jobs and produce work all at the same time. Signs that we are picking up speed to happier times or heading into a tunnel of desperation? Jane Hamsher, a writer and movie producer (Natural Born Killers), created [...]

A spring Friday – sun is out, no rain and still I am cranky. What to do in such sullen mood? Read BAGnewsNotes. On happy, happy, joy, joy days, the visual politics of the site veers a bit too close to the pessimistic side of the room. Not a problem today. I’m the half-glass-empty greeter [...]

That is the period of time when a surfer enjoys the best a swell has to offer. Not a water baby myself, I hear the result is like some kind of magical power. Enter the partnership between the New York Times and Adobe Reader launched the Times Reader 2.0. Abracadabra! Content is sold! Pay nothing [...]

Portfolio magazine billed me $12.00 in April for a print subscription. Two weeks later, Conde Naste stops publication. Same situation with the old Domino title. Billed then closed. Newsweek, Wired and The New Yorker beware. I have recently sent my cursed money your way. Truth be told, the downfall of Portfolio is not my fault. [...]

The U.K company Imense – which specializes in image recognition and retrieval software – rolled out a new keyword tagging product called Annotator. Company states that “depending on the type of images you shoot, your keywording time will be reduced by 40-75%.” Associative keywording, creating a CSV to send to your distribution agent, output keywords, [...]