AdHack says: Love is Never Boring

My good friend James Sherrett has a project he’d like to bring to your attention: AdHack. Building on the ways in which blogs have proven to be popular and powerful, James has create a Web community of designers, photographers and creators who are pushing the advertising envelope.

Anyone can create an ad. Anyone can buy an ad. AdHack acts like an eBay for ad creative, connecting ad buyers and ad creators. Learn more on the public site at http://www.adhack.com

Have a look at the “Chocolate Love” ad created by AdHack member Giant Ant Media. “Chocolate Love” is a short, stop-motion animation, shot on a light box. 367 Frames.
http://adhack2.com/public/detail/2444-1177

Got a great idea for a Valentine’s day ad you think the world should see? It doesn’t all have to be about chocolate! Visit http://www.adhack.com and sign up for access to the alpha site and get creative!

Oh, and happy Valentine’s day!

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post

If you’ve ever wondered just what happens when you post something to your blog, you’re not alone. Some things are obvious: the post ends up on your blog, and if you have date or category archives, it gets dropped into the right spots to appear on those pages, too. But you’ve probably heard a lot about how blogs are ideal for generating search engine results and Web traffic, and maybe you’ve wondered how that happens exactly.

Wonder no longer. Wired magazine ran a story on January 22 that explains exactly what happens, complete with an amazing info graphic.

The Life Cycle of a Blog Post, From Servers to Spiders to Suits—to You
Imperceptibly and all but instantaneously, your post slips into a vast and recursive network of software agents, where it is crawled, indexed, mined, scraped, republished, and propagated throughout the Web. Within minutes, if you’ve written about a timely and noteworthy topic, a small army of bots will get the word out to anyone remotely interested, from fellow bloggers to corporate marketers.

Live Blogging The Book Launch Party

We have opened the doors and people have started to arrive!  If you are sitting around at home and have nothing to do, why not head on down to the Railway Club in downtown Vancouver and pick up a copy of our book.  You may even be so lucky to get it signed by both authors.  Here are a few photos to start off the night.