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Re: Wikipedia seperates ‘Advertising’ and ‘Internet Advertising’

joshmchugh — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:21:44 -0000

Copy-desk nag: correct spelling *separates* high-quality blog post headlines from the frothing blog-pack.

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

joshmchugh — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:11:01 -0000

@daryn - I'm dying to know the answer too.

Also, I'm trying to figure out whether 417k down / 157 up is good or bad. Going to check the apple claims...

Re: Why We Drive the Way We Do

joshmchugh — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:32:01 -0000

Holy crap - I think I just successfully installed Disqus as my blog's comment system. Does cutting and pasting code snippets into TypePad advanced templates (with a little editing of the code in there as well) make me a code-clipper? A clip-coder?

Re: [bijan sabet] the personal tumblelog of Bijan Sabet

joshmchugh — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:04 -0000

Word - that is rad - thanks for the tip!

Re: Josh McHugh:

joshmchugh — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:38:58 -0000

For MQM: hints for scavhunt9

Re: When WILL We Optimize Road Traffic?

joshmchugh — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:20:06 -0000

Right on - thanks for taking the time to parse my story. I've long been obsessed with traffic optimization, much to the chagrin of my wife, and the author, Tom Vanderbilt is, thankfully, even more obsessed. His book helped me get over my hangups about being a late merger. Read it and never again worry about being "that driver" who everybody curses and honks at - you're not taking advantage of good people's morality - you're optimizing!

Re: Is the link economy really broken?

joshmchugh — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:48:17 -0000

I'm thinking this one:

http://www.techmeme.com/

Re: Animal House - 30th Anniversary Edition

joshmchugh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 18:15:31 -0000

1. Awful Waffle! Donkey Lips from Salute Your Shorts talks about it here.
2. And for a more meta discussion of Salute Your Shorts (for those who were alive to see the original long version of Animal House in theaters), Wikipedia can help.
3. Also, ASM pal Steve Slavkin is the man - behind Salute Your Shorts, and just plain the man.

Re: Illumenix Becomes TubeMogul InPlay

joshmchugh — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:01:48 -0000

Congrats - looks like a great move and Illumenix has awesome capabilities.

I'm hoping, however, that you meant to say "The value of Illumenix’s brain-trust of executives and engineers can’t be overstated," not understated.

Re: NYT Ethicist Randy Cohen on urban automotive ethics

joshmchugh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:59:20 -0000

Seesmic video reply from Disqus.

Re: The Universal Record Database - The definitive site for human achievement

joshmchugh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:09:08 -0000

Teeth-whistler! That's got to be a different category than lip-whistling. It won't last vs. lip-whistler aces, but will probably go down as all-time when adding "in a sandstorm" to the record's description.

Re: The Universal Record Database The definitive site for human achievement, regardless of discipline or category

joshmchugh — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:11:03 -0000

Yes - we need proof - or at least witness testimony, place and date info, etc.

Also, possibly not fair if you're rocking one of those newfangled wide-mouth Coors cans.

Re: The Universal Record Database - The definitive site for human achievement

joshmchugh — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:18:13 -0000

That is amazing. I'm embedding that right away...

Re: URDB - Most Burps In One Minute

joshmchugh — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:42:29 -0000

Amen.

Re: OpenID Support, Please

joshmchugh — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:02:04 -0000

Definitely in favor as well. IntenseDebate is getting a lot of love in the last couple of days from the OpenID establishment because Change.gov uses their comment system and it allows openid logins.

Re: The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Samantha Power Rejoins Team Obama

joshmchugh — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:12:12 -0000

Right on Sam!

Re: Google Friend Connect: Making your Plaxo account Useful all over the Social Web

joshmchugh — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:27:21 -0000

Congrats Dagga on finding the date of the Rapture. Is that the same thing as The Singularity?

Re: MegaWTF!

joshmchugh — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:11:57 -0000

Oh my gosh - it just hit me: Frank Chu got major funding and has become a global telecommunications mogul!

Re: betaworks - When people go into a meeting they have two goals:...

joshmchugh — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 11:50:56 -0000

That's how the Druids used to roll, I think. But I definitely want to invest in any company made up of people who can stand up for 9 days straight - that's some serious discipline.

Re: 'Dorm Life' Returns for a Second Semester with Carl's Jr.

joshmchugh — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:03:54 -0000

Mom! Couldn't you have used a fake name or something? That's SO embarrassing!

Re: ‘Dorm Life’ Season 2 Kicks Off, Carl’s Jr. Joins the Party

joshmchugh — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:21:25 -0000

If you could see the chariot that Chris Smith is rolling in these days, you'd know the answer beyond a doubt.

Re: Reed, please.

joshmchugh — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:25:12 -0000

Awesome.
A guy at the SF farmers' market was doing the same a while back, and wrote a real nice one for my boy Finn.

Re: Radar connects with Flickr for photos and comments

joshmchugh — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 16:11:50 -0000

Right on Radar! Really good move.

Re: The Rising Power Of Social Media As A Traffic Driver

joshmchugh — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:53:31 -0000

In the entertainment biz, Twitter is proving to be a hugely effective generator of traffic. Better yet, it's highly time-specific. For the launch of the second season of one of my company's web series, Dorm Life, we had widely announced a March 2 date, but subsequently struck a deal with MySpace giving them a 48-hour exclusive head start on posting Dorm Life episodes.

On March 1, a day into the MySpace exclusive period, we noticed that traffic was barely trickling into the MySpace channel. So we sent out a tweet on the @dormlife channel, containing a link to the first episode of the season on MySpace.

We used Bit.ly to compress the link. The compression is nice, but the real value is in Bit.ly's tracking and analytics capabilities. An hour later, we could see that 20% of those who had received the tweet had clicked through to the video. 48 hours later, 90% had clicked through. 3 days after the tweet went out, clickthroughs on the link had all but died out, but the final result was that 94% of the Dorm Life fans who got the tweet clicked through.

Since we began interacting with our audience via Twitter, we've found that the show's Twitter community has generated a ratio of views per community member (2:1) that is double the ratio (1:1) the show's Facebook-based community has generated. No doubt there's a lot of overlap between the two, but the point is that for us, Twitter messages are twice as effective in getting fans to check out episodes.

TV Week's Daisy Whitney mentioned it in a piece yesterday: http://bit.ly/TVwDL

Re: http://luckyshirt.tumblr.com/post/86430363

joshmchugh — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 12:29:51 -0000

Safety announcement: do not attempt to eat lengthwise.