Tag: Ideas
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The Narrow River of Content
Winthrop Yu, former head honcho of PC Magazine Philippines led me to this Forbes piece on how specialist blogs are stealing rich advertising from tech media – and I don’t just mean traditional tech publications, but their online counterparts also. In other words, if I were an advertiser, I’d actually see more value in putting…
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Why Magazines are still out there
It is no secret that new media is not so slowly taking a bigger role in viral marketing efforts as well as being included in the business models of publishing companies. There is usually the “online version” of a publication that contains stuff that magazines cannot achieve such as running commentaries, reader to editorial conversations,…
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A Guide: How To Use Technology To Survive Sudden Memory Loss
If a Haitian (specifically the one from Heroes) were to suddenly gag me from behind and erase my short term memory in a dramatic display of acting prowess, this is how I would try to spring back to remember the lost memories: Prior to this occurrence, I would write down my email, social network and…
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Why Twitter is More Interesting Than Your Blog: The Steve Rubel PR Nightmare
When a new service like Twitter is launched, it doesn’t take a long time before we start seeing a lot of controversies with real world relationships. The traditional blogging medium (I can’t believe I just called blogging “traditional”) allows you to organize yourself into one coherent thought bubble and post what you have to say,…
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ReviewMe and how it affects the status quo of stuff
There has been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere with the launch of ReviewMe, a product from the guys that brought you Text Link Ads. What astonishes me most was how a lot of bloggers have posted about this rather quickly in the past 6 hours. And the answer to this is quite obvious…
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List of Firefox 2.0 Compatible Plugins and Themes
After a horrendous experience with a Firefox 2.0 upgrade on Windows I decided to link everyone to a listing of Firefox 2.0 compatible extensions and themes. I installed Firefox 2.0 this morning and all of a sudden my bookmarks were not showing up on the tab area (but they were still on the bookmarks folder),…
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How to make a good elevator pitch
I got this from Jeremy. The elevator pitch is similar to the drive by shooting of potential VC funding. Here’s a video to help equip you with that tool. Who knows, the next person you might be stuck in an elevator with could be your next venture capitalist.
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Update on local airport security
I was watching a local news feature yesterday. Apparently local airport security are now banning several personal effects from being boarded into airplanes. Some of which include: Golf balls Billiard balls Baseball Bats Perfume Apparently these items may potentially cause danger to passengers. The balls can be used to hurl as projectiles, the baseball bats…
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new banner
As you can see above, A Bugged Life has a new banner. I’ve always wanted to do a “me stepping on myself” shot. There were surprisingly a bunch of people involved with this banner. I’d like to thank Rikky for the photoshoot, Adel for the Timtastic! font, Rico, Kiven and Alexis for the layout suggestions.
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your life in hyphenates
A friend of mine did an excellent post a few weeks ago about the HYPHENATE life (i.e. doing many things at the same time such as writer slash photographer slash sideline business slash something something). A lot of people, especially those who are very talented in the arts vie to become a hyphenate – not…
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