http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog Social interactions, Media and Art Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:51:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Design & Society - Hacking Design http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2010/01/07/hacking-design/ I love trends and the enormous amount of useless and sometimes relevant data we can access via the Interwebs. Google Trends just released an embedded gadget to track search query volume. You can edit the search query before you embed the gadget, then your visitors can change search terms and length ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2009/05/08/google-trends-gadget-for-your-blog/ One of the smartest things you can do in tough economic times is maintain your marketing budget. More often than not, cutting spending means cutting marketing, advertising and PR. This is the time to shout the loudest and not in desperation. Google, provides a few tools and food for thought on ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/12/03/tough-economic-times-google-adwords-is-here-to-help/ If you missed the Search Engine Strategies Conference - SES in San Jose. Take a look at these live blogs of the event at The SEM Blog. Jason does a great job of covering the panels he attended and the information presented. Social Media Optimization is something I have been researching ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/08/25/ses-live-blogging-and-recap/ Two of my favorite tools together in one. Tumblr and Twitter used as a datamining tool. I am having a tough time figuring out how to play with this, but I am totally intrigued. http://www.tweetip.com/ http://tweetip.tumblr.com/post/27780274/tweetipfh-a-twitter-tumblr-client-designed-for http://twitter.com/tweetip http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/07/08/twitter-tools-including-tweetip/ Business Week publishes an article today on Why Twitter Matters. Some of the best comments from the article run to why we hang on to the mundane comments about what someone is eating, to what they found under the couch. The author points out these are often the same comments we ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/05/15/business-week-outs-twitter-as-important/ I spend less and less time actually toting around my laptop these days and more often taking advantage of computers located wherever I am working. One of the tools I am going to integrate into this is Portable Apps. These are tiny open source versions of applications that can run ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/05/12/portable-applications-small-and-powerful-apps-on-the-go/ I found a great post today on Twitter that I immediately retweeted (what you do when you broadcast something to your network) the link. 50 easy things to consider when reducing your carbon footprint. I liked these ideas since they didn't require radical changes in lifestyle and were based around ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/04/22/in-honor-of-earthday-how-to-reduce-your-carbon-footprint/ This Saturday, if you are in Houston, TX you can get punched! Sucker Punched in a brilliant way. Tim Newton will be the headliner at an Art Show and Exhibit at this cooler than cool store. This night there will be a DJ, light refreshments, T-shirts and the best Dali-esque ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/04/08/interactivity-does-a-creativeleak-in-the-art-world/ Seesmic is a rapidly growing website building on the video/chat network. I have recently seen traffic and mention of Twhirl among other Twitter friends and followers as a great desktop application for Twitter. Now that didn't take long did it? Today, Seesmic announces the acquisition of Twhirl. Looks like good ... http://www.mediaartstudio.com/blog/2008/04/03/seesmic-snags-twhirl-for-desktop-application-of-video-chat/