Eight Points of Interest: Week in Review

Below is a list of eight interesting sites, ideas and newsworthy tidbits to sum up what I found of interest this week on the interweb.
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1) The month of November has a new name! It’s now MOvember (as in moustache!) Tyler over at BC, along with a lot of other manly men, are growing MO’s for the month of November to raise awareness and charitable contributions for prostate cancer research.

2) Democreated.com: “We the people” are creating a brand. You sign up, fill out a questionnaire letting us know what you think the brand should sell, how it should be marketed, what it’s vision and purpose should be then you become part owner. An interesting experiment, it’s success is yet to be decided (68 days left till the brand goes up for auction).

3) Stop Calling yourself a Blogger!: This gem is from David Armano at Logic+Emotion, where he lists 10 great reasons to not call yourself a blogger. I won’t give them away here, but the gist is that the word “blogger” cannot encapsulate your real passion - that being, hopefully, what you write about, your content.

4) “THERE’S PROBABLY NO GOD“. This quote is the result of an ad campaign using billboards and buses to get that message out. I can think of oh-so-many ideas that I’d pay to put on a billboard before this one. Let’s just call this one ‘newsworthy’.

5) The Human Clock: I know this isn’t exactly new. It’s first iteration was launched back in 2003, but having recently rediscovered it, I have to rave. My girls and I are going to take some pictures and send in some submissions as a family activity this week.

6) Create a unique blogging experience: I love SlideShare, and this presentation for bloggers, er, whatever you want to call yourself (see #3) is one of the better ones out there.

7) HR Lori, points to Dead Fish, who found a great list of 10 ideas on How to Work Better.

Interesting article on ethnic Barbies at Seeing is Believing, thanks to anti-racist parent for pointing the way to this interesting post.

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