Sticky, Sweet, & A Little Overdressed

• Netflix’s social experiment. It’s time to come clean. | Technically Incorrect - CNET News.com
  Amusing riff on social commerce.
  (tags: behavioral_targeting netflix ecommerce)
• vegalicious » Blog Archive » Hearty Ravioli - delicious vegan & vegetarian recipes for compassionate people
  This looks awesome. I’ve been wanting to try to make ravioli. Must give this one a try.
  (tags: food recipes vegan)

• Tag Galaxy
  Cool flickr tag visualization app. I could burn a lot of time there. Wow.
  (tags: flickr webapp)
• Information Design Patterns
  Amazing piece of reference work showing many ways of representing information visually and the best practices for each.
  (tags: interface diagrams design charts reference gallery UI)

• Webmonkey: the Web Developers Resource
  Yay! Webmonkey is back.
  (tags: webdesign tutorials web reference)

• Amazee Project News | Amazee *beta*
  (tags: collaboration community web2.0 social networking)

• brand tags
  Interesting experiment about the collective wisdom of brand perception.
  (tags: branding brands collaboration tags community marketing)

• The Green Revolution In Magazine Publishing—Truth or Hype? | Circulation Management Magazine
  Why aren’t more magazine publishers printing on recycled paper?
  (tags: magazines recycling)
• Parental Fail « The FAIL Blog
  Jon sent me this and asked “we didn’t know each other then, did we?”
  (tags: drinks funny kids)

• Lestat? « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  Best LOLcat I’ve ever seen.
  (tags: lolcats)

Web-forward people, particularly iPhone users, what’s the next thing after Quicken? Mint? Wesabe? Quicken online? I’ve tried all of these, and I have some complaints about each. Quicken no longer affords me the convenience it used to before I had an iPhone, when I used Pocket Quicken on my Treo to record expenses as I transacted them and could sync them up back at my laptop whenever. Now I have a stack of receipts piling up and no motivation to do anything with them, but I miss the granular visibility I used to have into my finances when that system was working well for me.

So what now?

• rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » When magazine publishers start acting like bloggers
  (tags: magazines blogging bloggers)

• The All-You-Can-Read Subscription Offer - Blogs emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com
  Maybe this model is the “real” Netflix of magazines, in contrast to Maghound.
  (tags: magazines magazines.com maghound magazine)

After reading Mike and Jon’s laments about being “off the grid,” I did a little ego-surfing on Google Maps street view, and, hey whaddya know, we’re on it. They must have driven by before our transom and sidelights went in on our doorway, so it looks a little unfinished, but we’re there!

So, um, yeah. That was really important to determine. And now back to work.

• blouses, button ups, tanks, and other tops for women from edge of urge boutique!
  Awesome stitched bird tank tee from Edge of Urge boutique online
  (tags: shopping clothing clothes)

Thanks to the fine folks at ContentRobot, this blog is now equipped with an iPhone-ready theme. If you view www.honeybowtie.com/blog from an iPhone, it will automatically show up in a minimalist iPhone format.

And thanks to Dan Dickinson’s simple explanation, the whole honeybowtie.com site now has a custom webclip icon if you add it to your home page.

Whee!

Yes, each of these probably merits a post of its own, and my blog has been sorely neglected of late. But since I’m powering through my to do list, I’m giving them each a bullet point, and I may choose to come back to one or more of them later.

• I’ve been working very, very hard. If you visit Magazines.com over the next few months, you may see some cool changes start to take place.
• I’ve been traveling a lot. Since the beginning of February, I’ve been in San Francisco, New York, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City, Chicago, and Boston. And not in Nashville very much, clearly.
• My 17-year-old cousin (well, first cousin once removed) has lymphoma. But she’s got a great attitude and a lot of fight in her. I’m thinking a lot about my cousin and her family.
• My coworker’s 10-year-old nephew just died from cancer after 9 months in the hospital. And then, at the funeral, the same coworker’s mother-in-law collapsed, had a heart attack, and died. I’m thinking a lot about that family.
• Karsten and I are about to go on our first cruise. It’s a vegetarian cruise.
• This weekend is the fifth anniversary of the crazy little experiment Karsten and I performed that we like to call “getting married.”
• I finally convinced Karsten to join Facebook. We’re now married on Facebook! I feel so hip.

• winesmash.com
  My buddy Joe Hendricks just launched a new web site for wine comparisons and education.
  (tags: wine)

• Ricky Gervais… Obviously.
  Ricky Gervais explains how, at 8 years old, he went from believer to non-believer in one afternoon.
  (tags: atheism)
• www.tennessean.com | Nashville Tennessee Green | The Tennessean
  Tips and information relating to green living in Nashville and the middle Tennessee area.
  (tags: environment ecology nashville tennessee)

• Daryl Hall & John Oates to Be Named BMI Icons at 56th Annual Pop Awards May 20 in Los Angeles
  I need to get to LA in May. I want to see this.
  (tags: hall&oates bmi music)
• Magazines.com Partners With OTTO Digital on Behavioral Targeting Case Study | Circulation Management Magazine
  Coverage! Interview! Neato keen.
  (tags: magazines.com news)

Oddly enough, a Google news alert for “kate o’neill” brought me to this topic in the bisexual community over at LiveJournal. Turns out no one was talking about me — the “kate” came from “Kate Winslet” and the “o’neill” from “Chris O’Neill” — but in a way, they kind of were, in a strange coincidence.

The discussion was around the list of movies in the Bisexual category at Netflix, and whether the titles constituted a good set, or were just stereotypes. Some commenters had already made the case that they were, for the most part, a good set, which I appreciated… since I’m the one who put the list together.

I left the following comment:

I’m the person who initially put together the list of bisexual movies for Netflix. I was the content manager there in 2000-2001, and I created the Bisexual subgenre within the content database, gradually populating it over time with titles that I (as a bisexual person) recognized as pertaining in some way to bisexuality, because they either feature an openly bi character, have some fluidity of sexuality within the story, are mentioned in Wayne Bryant’s wonderful book “Bisexual Characters in Film,” or seemed relevant in some other way.

I certainly understand if they seem random; I thought it would be preferable to have a broader category than one that missed the breadth of representation of bisexuality, for better or worse.

The internet is such a small world.

• How to Fold a Towel Cat - wikiHow
  I guess next time we’re having company over at The Cat Shack, I’ll give this a try. It’s kind of cute, but also sort of a little freaky.
  (tags: cat tutorial)

• rexblog.com: Rex Hammock’s weblog » Blog Archive » Why is it difficult for people to understand what a magazine does online is not necessarily a magazine?
  How do people think about extensions of magazine brands? In very convoluted ways, apparently.
  (tags: magazine magazines branding brands)

We got talking about Twitter etiquette at the Geek Breakfast, and I decided I was going to do a post about the emerging dynamics of being polite while micro-blogging.

Jackson seemed to think that was pretty ironic, though, since I’m apparently violating the #1 rule of Twitter etiquette: don’t post daily recaps of your Twitter updates in your blog. Or at least don’t make it the only content you post for a week or more.

In my defense, I said, I’ve been modifying my Twitter updates since I started doing that so that they’d be somewhat more substantive. That got a mumble of support, but the message was clear: daily Twitter summary posts do not make up for real blog content.

OK, so there’s rule number one, and I’m public enemy number one, and now that we’ve got that out of the way, let’s move on to number two, shall we?

The ability to track topics is one of Twitter’s most useful features. I track several keywords, and when I find myself reading updates from the same people multiple times, I decide that they must be worth following. I don’t just start following them, though — I send them a direct message letting them know I saw their posts about magazines, say, or songwriting, and am now following them. So far no one has acted like I’m stalking them, and most of the people I contact that way end up following me back.

So rule #2 is: before you follow someone you don’t know, send a message and let him or her know why you’re following them. If nothing else, this will let the other person know what content is most interesting to other people, and that’s always handy to know.

Alright, so there are the first two rules: one of which I’m bad about, and one of which I’m good about. What would you add to the list?

• Orchestra Nashville: An Evening of Great Love Songs
  Wondering if this would be something good to do while my mom is in town over Valentine’s Day. Or not. Hmm.
  (tags: nashville music)

• Like it or not, ‘like’ is, like, here to stay
  My friend (and former girlfriend) Jennie Dailey-O’Cain was on the cover of the Edmonton Journal, providing expert input about the relative linguistic merits of “like.” How cool is that?!
  (tags: news friends linguistics)
• MagHound: A Netflix for Magazines | ZapNat
  ZapNat’s coverage of MagHound: “many readers develop a preference towards certain magazines and want to receive [it] every month, not an issue from different magazines. It is far cheaper to just subscribe to [...] seven magazines…”
  (tags: maghound magazines workstuff)
• TLF: MagHound: Another interesting new media business model
  Great post about MagHound asking the all-important question: “Will truly loyal magazine readers use the MagHound service? For those of us who have long been addicted [...], we couldn’t imagine living without our favorite titles for even one month…”
  (tags: maghound magazines workstuff)
• 2008 Circulation Management Conference and Expo
  Can’t decide whether to attend. Must consider.
  (tags: workstuff conferences)

• PetFulfillment: Kitty Hammock
  This looks awesome. In fact, this whole store looks like some dangerously fun browsing.
  (tags: cats furniture)

• VeganYumYum » Petits Fours
  If I find I have the time and patience to make these in the next few weeks, I’ll be sure to have a little party to celebrate and share the yumminess.
  (tags: vegan baking dessert)