• Archive for February, 2008

    5 Great Bands You Should Know (& Their Free Downloads)

    by Matt • February 24, 2008 • 1 Comment

    We all have different tastes in music, and I don’t pretend to think everyone should like the same artists I like. But maybe you’ll check some of these bands out and agree that you should be paying more attention to them. Vib Gyor Official site | MySpace | YouTube channel They formed in 2004 in [...]

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    Live Blogging ALL of Oscar Weekend

    by Matt • February 23, 2008 • 0 Comments

    No, it’s not me doing the live blogging. I have two friends who are very funny, who are Movie Geeks of the first degree, and even have a successful movie podcast. And they are the ones who are live blogging all of Oscar weekend. (Crazy, I’m tellin’ ya.) If you’re a movie geek, too, you [...]

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    The Mysterious Meteor: Did It Hit Earth, or Not?

    by Matt • February 22, 2008 • 1 Comment

    A meteor screamed across the Pacific Northwest Tuesday morning and has been the talk of the Tri-Cities (and Spokane, and Boise, and Walla Walla, and even Seattle, Portland and into Canada) since then. It happened at about 5:30 am and scared the bejeezus out of some folks who saw it: “The light was so … [...]

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    How To Build a Devoted Community, by Mixx.com

    by Matt • February 19, 2008 • 10 Comments

    Step One: Respect Your Users Last Thursday night at about 11 p.m., I tried to submit a cool article to Mixx, but the system spit out an error message: “Sorry, the URL you are attempting to submit is not valid on our system.” Say what? I found the help page and followed the link to [...]

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    Two Tastes That Don’t Taste Great Together

    by Matt • February 18, 2008 • 1 Comment

    Bad Food Mashup Originally uploaded by Matt McGee Foods that belong together: Peanut butter and jelly. Cheeseburgers and fries. Bacon and eggs. Fish and chips. Steak and potatoes. Spaghetti and meatballs. Chicken and rice. Ice cream and … anything. Foods that don’t belong together: Potato chips crisps and dill pickles. The folks at Pringles never [...]

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    How NOT to Market on Flickr

    by Matt • February 17, 2008 • 5 Comments

    Looks like someone didn’t read my How to Market on Flickr guide. Tsk-tsk. And how stupid do you have to be to link to all your spammy profiles at every other social site? Obviously a rookie spammer. Update, Sunday afternoon: I submitted that profile via Flickr’s “report abuse” form, and just about 16 hours later, [...]

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