People like to consume their media in many different ways. When it comes to getting our daily dose of news, some people like to read their morning paper over breakfast, other people listen to the news on the drive to work, and many of us check the headlines online as soon as we get to work. MSNBC.com shows that they are aware of our diverse media habits, and they are offering us even more ways to experience the news via www.NewsWare.msnbc.com. MSNBC.com has added Spectra, Newsblaster and Newscroller to their existing collection of podcasts, RSS feeds and mobile applications.

This is for all you sinners (link renters) out there. TLA is giving a 15% off discount in the month of May when you use coupon code may. Apparently this will give you 15% off your order for the life of your order.

Over the past year I have purchased a few after market domain names. It amazes me how many times I am given the option to rent the domain name if I can’t afford to buy it. One domain I wanted to purchase had an asking price of $695 and a 1 year rental price of [...]

Have you ever wondered how hard it will be to rank for certain keywords or keyword phrases? Try out SEO Chat’s Keyword Difficulty Check Tool. This tool gives you a percentage score that reflects how difficult it will be to get first page ranking for your keywords. The recently launched www.publicitywheel.com is a new concept for [...]

This weeks funny video is an awareness test from Transport For London. Its interesting what you miss when you’re trying to focus on one thing. Enjoy your Friday!

If you are looking for a great example of online video I recommend you check out the Fiskars Cinema Series. This series of three documentary style videos tells the story about a 360 year-old artisan enclave and "company town" called Fiskars Village. These videos are telling a story, it is obvious that these are promotional videos, but they exude passion and craft and do not feel like commercials. These videos remind me a lot of the TV version of "This American Life" and some of Hillman Curtis' artist series videos. These videos are presented on a flash heavy site with very little text. I would recommend that along with all this great video they include some text. This would improve their organic search results and give people who liked the videos, more information about the village.

Peg Davis of MarketingExperiments Blog discusses the rising popularity of “blended search“. She recommends that we all start optimizing our video and image assets to catch the wave. youTube just announced that it has paid out $1 million to it’s overlay ad partners. Details of the revenue sharing program have been kept mostly [...]

A few months back we posted the very funny Tech Bubble music video created by Richter Scales. With in a couple days it was taken off of youTube. Well, it’s back on youTube and we still think it’s pretty funny so we’re posting it again. Enjoy your Friday.

One of the many perks to having a blog with a decent amount of traffic and the word ‘marketing’ in the title is that publishers send you books for free. In the last month I received Accidental Branding by David Vinjamuri and 2011: Trendspotting For The Next Decade by Richard Laermer who coauthored Punk Marketing. [...]

Everyone’s favorite ex Apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki, along with Will Mayall and Kathryn Henkens have launched alltop.com. The site is an aggregate of stories from “all the top” sites on the web. I recommend checking out the Social Media, Design and SEO pages. Paul McEnany of hee-hawmarketing wrote an insightful article on brand building on the [...]