The holiday season is always extremely slow and quiet for me. Nothing seems to be happening - either everyone is out enjoying Christmas, or those who aren’t out pretend they are out as an excuse to take it slow and hibernate. And of course now that I got your attention, my best holiday and Christmas wishes [...]
Archive for December, 2007
December 28th, 2007 at 4:08 pm by Ari Shohat
My Holiday Hibernation Update
| Blogging, General Rants | 1 Comment |
December 21st, 2007 at 12:09 pm by Ari Shohat
Digitally Imported is hiring - Web Developer in NYC
| Business, General Rants, Streaming | 2 Comments |
If you know anyone around New York, I am looking to bring on one more Web Developer. We currently have 4 already.
Things haven’t been moving as fast as I’d like them to move here. So it would be great to invest in more talent. Here’s the job post.
Enjoy your weekend!
December 17th, 2007 at 5:21 pm by Ari Shohat
Subliminal Political Marketing - Huckabee’s Floating Cross
| Marketing, Politics | 3 Comments |
Noticed this on Drudge Report. If you watch this political ad you can see the window frame portion act as a floating cross, and moving around a xmas tree:
That is called trying to be relevant without stating so explicitly. Works great until it’s pointed out as too obvious and then it comes back and slaps [...]
December 14th, 2007 at 1:41 pm by Ari Shohat
Video Friday - Mozart Vs Salieri, from the movie Amadeus
| Music, Videos | 0 Comments |
Amadeus is one of my all time favorite movies. Here’s a great scene from the film, I will provide some background plot info to put it in perspective:
The film is shot from a somewhat narrative perspective of Salieri’s recollections about Mozart. Salieri is the guy with dark hair in the opening scene.
Salieri at this stage is the [...]
December 13th, 2007 at 12:38 pm by Ari Shohat
Hillary Clinton Knows How to “Feel Bad” for People
| Life Happens, Politics | 0 Comments |
This is an ad starring Hillary’s mom and is approved by the campaign. Doesn’t she deserve to be voted in because she knows how to feel bad for people? That was sarcasm, in case you didn’t get it. I am not bashing Hillary here (though I am in plenty of other places), it’s just that I’d [...]
December 12th, 2007 at 5:21 pm by Ari Shohat
Comedy with Structured Investment Vehicles
| Economy, Videos | 0 Comments |
Via VC Confidential:
Mystified about how Wall Street’s best and brightest could suddenly up and lose tens of billions of dollars on insanely risky mortgage bets? Then watch these two British comedians explain how our country’s most lucrative and admired industry works…
December 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm by Ari Shohat
How Do You Deal With Limited Time?
| General Rants | 0 Comments |
Slow blogging week as I am again catching up to things left and right. There’s just no way around the ADD problem with so many things going on at once, yet I love every minute of it. The fact that I missed the last express bus that would make it into the carpool lane today [...]
December 10th, 2007 at 4:46 pm by Ari Shohat
Viral Content Needs A Kickstart
| Marketing, Web | 0 Comments |
Recently I’ve caught a great guest post on TechCrunch entitled “The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos“. If you still think most viral things don’t have people working behind the scenes you need to crawl from under your rock.
Here is a juicy excerpt, but there’s much more to the original post:
So how do we get [...]
