We’re Moving

Howdy readers,
Just wanted to let you know that benrowesblog is moving.
I’ve decided after 4 1/2 years it’s time to move to a WordPress.org blog, with a few more bells and whistles. Hopefully I’ll be able to do this over the weekend.
I’ll keep you posted over the next few days, but very shortly we’ll be at [...]

Hello I’m a scammer

This made me chuckle (via poketo):

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable

Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable – Clay Shirky’s really intelligent thoughts about the future of newspapers, summed up by this one:
It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped [...]

The New Pop Culture

“The marketing term for people like me is “slash/slashers.” Like, I’m doing the yearbook plus my blog and making videos and working at a communications firm called Naked. We don’t want one path—we want to get involved in lots of creative projects. It’s like, “Oh, you should holler at Harley to go D.J. your party!” [...]

Social Media – Listen, Say Sorry and Move On

This post is not a rant about why Big Brands don’t belong in Social Media. Nor is it a plea that that you HAVE to get your brand on Twitter and any other hot social media property de jour.
It’s about one of the really great benefits of Social Media marketing – If you mess something up, you [...]

Mind your URLs

I’m reposting this hilarious list of Top Ten Worst URLs that I found today, via the Razorfish Amnesia Blog. It’s great. Among my favorites:
Looking for a pen? Look no further than Pen Island at www.penisland.net
Need a therapist? Try Therapist Finder at www.therapistfinder.com
And now, we have the Mole Station Native Nursery, based in New South Wales: www.molestationnursery.com
Want to holiday in Lake [...]

Look no further than WordPress

If you’re looking for an example of company that never stops innovating, and never stops improving – look no further than Automattic, the creators of WordPress.
I’ve been running this little blog on wordpress.com since 2005.  Back then it was good. And I’ve seen countless improvements, new features and themes since then. It honestly gets better [...]

Monopoly Re-packaged

Wow – Check out this beautiful Monopoly Set … re-packaged by Andy Mangold.

New year, New look

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Happy new year everyone! I thought I’d welcome it in refresh to my blog’s look and feel. Hope you like it. I’ll probably be doing a bit more tinkering in weeks to come. write some proper posts too.
I really like this 2009 Bubble Calendar, with a bubble to pop for each day of the year.

Create your own RSS Newspaper with Tabbloid

Here’s a nifty little idea that HP have put together. It’s an easy way to create your own PDF newspaper with the RSS feeds that you subscribe to. It’s called Tabbloid.
I like this idea for several reasons:

Ideas like this will help RSS move into the mainstream. Which is a good thing.
It sure beats reading crappy free newspapers on [...]