March 2006

Deal or No Deal is clearly America’s newest game show fetish. Hell, if it can bring Howie Mandel back from the throes of irrelevance, then it’s obviously captured the fascination of the public. Regardless, I have to add my name to the list of people who are hooked on this new TV chew toy, but I’m convinced that my love for the show is reflective of some kind of masochistic tendencies that I must be suppressing.

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I’ve been temporarily (permanently?) relegated from the bedroom, and since I don’t feel like diving into any hard core work at the moment, I figure I may as well take this opportunity to BMAO. Blog my ass off.

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Adding uniquely-styled Flickr photo streams to your blog is easy, and it’s just another thing you can leverage to make your blog stand out among the crowd. Today, my goal is simply to walk you through the process of creating your very own photo stream so that you can end up with something like this:

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On its 13^th birthday (that’s days, not years), The Indie Virus achieved its third significant milestone - 100+ results in Technorati’s search. Let’s take a look at some of the other stats and issues that have come about during week two of the very-contagious Indie Virus experiment.

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Contest. Linking. Non A-listers. Cash prize? Could you repeat that into my good ear? It’s true, John Scott, the writer of the outstanding and heretofore Indie Virused “Internet Marketing Blog,” announced a $10,000 linking contest on March 1.

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Since this week is all about design, I figured it was only appropriate to send The Indie Virus out to a few people whose work I truly admire. All kinds of elements are in play on quality websites - like graphic design, code, and depth of content - and I think today’s recipients really bring all three of these into play in a big way. Prepare to be inspired, as The Indie Virus is about to go to places that ought to make A-listers jealous!

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On Saturday afternoon, I had an irresistible urge to start on a new design for this site. Although it’s still not complete, I couldn’t resist busting out what I already had. Here’s what you get: one incomplete home page, and individual archive pages that rock the house

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…unless they’re idiots, in which case you should make fun of them on your blog. Today I’m going to grace you all with a lovely tale from the retail side of things. Think of a beautiful story of love, compassion, reason, logic, understanding, and excellent grammar…and then take the exact opposite of all that

In today’s story, all correspondence is reproduced exactly as it came to me. Ver-freakin-batim, baby, mistakes and all.

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Yesterday afternoon, I was working on a design for a client, and I felt totally sapped of all creativity. Designer’s block, if you will. There I was, sitting in front of my new 23″ Cinema HD display, using the incomprehensibly cool Adobe CS2, and yet I couldn’t come up with anything exciting.

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Late late late last Friday night, I decided to try and launch a viral marketing experiment. Seven days later, I still have something to talk about. Score. In celebration, we’re going to take a closer look at the numbers behind 7 days of unabashed coughing on non A-list blogs.

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