Link: Future corporate marketing budget: swag bag

Honey, Don’t Bother Mommy. I’m Too Busy With My Blog and Building My Brand. – NYTimes.com “‘The brands know they need a blogger,’ said Ciaran Blumenfeld, the publisher of momfluential.net. ‘The bloggers know they need a brand.’”

Photo: Chasing the bus

A bit dark, but I liked the moment. Taken March 2010 in Chinatown, New York, N.Y. Around 3 or 4 in the afternoon with my Canon Digital Rebel EOS 5D T2i. f/6.3; 1/100; 55mm; ISO 100.

LInk: Making an activist video game out of the Darfur atrocity

Darfur Is Dying – Play mtvU’s Darfur refugee game for change Can “serious games” use the tools of entertainment to educate and promote positive social action? Might work better if we can tie advancing in the game to real-world effects (a donor matching dollars for points, perhaps; I keep thinking of making donations to Haiti … Read more