December 2009
240 posts
Your New Year's Menu
via ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com This menu for New Year’s Day dinner in 1906 is surprisingly familiar…until you realize that the prices are in pennies, not dollars. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Go listen to Ella to close out the year
via tsutpen.blogspot.com Such a gifted, balanced singer that she could take treacle and turn it into transcendence. Go listen to her to close out the decade and remember when the big band behind the voice was designed to elevate the voice, provide the harmonies and feature the song. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Pay a visit to Christmas in the 1920's.
via papatedsplace.com Here’s a great collection of Christmas photos from the 1920’s. The volume may have changed in 90 years, but the focus is still the same. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Holiday Warhol
via tsutpen.blogspot.com An early Warhol holiday celebration. Gives you a sense of what all the fuss was about. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Hoping your close to home for the holiday....
via youtube.com Happy Holidays to everyone. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Broadway in 1850
via ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com Here’s lower Broadway in 1850, two years after the photo was taken of the farmhouse on the Upper West Side. Click through to Ephermal New York’s post — they have some interesting background on the Moffat behind the ad on the building you see down the street. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Upper Broadway in 1848
via cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com This is believed to be the oldest photo of New York, showing a farm on what was Bloomingdale road, most likely somewhere on the Upper West Side. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Joan Baez - It Ain't Me, Babe (Live 1965)
via youtube.com A wise, sorrowful song. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
A tour of the Universe
via youtube.com Take a video tour of the Universe, starting from our perspective and ending in a place of awe. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
A detailed look at trend in credit card charge-offs at banks [a key to consumer delevering] (via CalculatedRisk) http://bit.ly/5KPnpI
Are we at the end of an era of good content? (via TechCrunch) http://bit.ly/8IXtUM
What would happen if you decided to avoid Google for 1 week on online activity? Here’s what. (via BenjaminEllis) http://bit.ly/6vE25Q
Perspective from the “free money isn’t necessarily a good thing” camp. (via TheBigPicture) http://bit.ly/6MW1hG
Retail sales didn’t really grown in Nov. The tracking methodology changed. (via TheBigPicture) http://bit.ly/6V8Mj8
Rebutting the fear of cookie-cutter content: The social graph will reject the bad stuff. (via BroadStuff) http://bit.ly/6tlyaX
Dan Blank with the third installment of his persuasive & cogent look at the way to be a multi-platform media brand. http://bit.ly/8gbRaO
Rupert Murdoch hits the streets. Wonder what he learned. (via PaidContent) http://bit.ly/6nW7RP
HuffPost’s Coleman tells how sponsored Tweets, other tools will drive big rev growth (via PaidContent) http://bit.ly/57E4Ac
What’s the next era of content? Talking curation, new content forms & increases in quality. (via Jarvis) http://bit.ly/71s7gE
Really great, really basic explanation of what content marketing is. (via idealaunch) http://bit.ly/6KAvn8
This wasn’t the experience in 1977 http://post.ly/FBLq
This wasn't the experience in 1977
via ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com Columbia University is up there on the hill where St. Luke’s was in 1900. (St. Luke’s is still on Amsterdam, just not so prominent.) But, three-quarters of a century later, the bucolic vista had turned into a dark, tangled park of violence and intrigue that was bordered on its west side by a towering wall that was like some border of a...
If creating liquidity by extending credit will extend the stock rally, then logic says it will eventually happen. http://bit.ly/5Rj7qx
The Bureau of Labor Statistics project where 5.5M jobs will come from in the next decade. (hat tip to BusinessInsider) http://bit.ly/5zNyRI
Here’s why we should be paying attention to Volker’s message: he’s gonna win the argument. (via Baselinescenario) http://bit.ly/86vtx4
#P: Good Reads for 2009-12-14 http://bit.ly/6VtkGD
Good Reads for 2009-12-14 →
10 forecasts for next year from eMarketer’s CEO http://bit.ly/672HLq 10:20:11
Look at this hands-on analysis of what kind of things get retweeted. Please retweet! …
Two current-time snapshots of consumer attitudes →
Two current-time snapshots on the recovery from BigResearch.
First, despite the upward trends we read about in the paper, Americans are still very realistic about the economy: only a…
Techniques to improve Twitter influence →
For those readers who are trying to learn how to increase their sphere of influence on Twitter, here is a very good practical post from CopyBlogger on what kinds of Tweets get…
Before digital… http://post.ly/F40r
The line http://post.ly/F3zz
#P: Techniques to improve Twitter influence http://bit.ly/5lxRVh
#P: Two current-time snapshots of consumer attitudes http://bit.ly/6cAdPy
The story of Manhattan’s 13th Avenue http://post.ly/F427
The story of Manhattan's 13th Avenue
via thirteenthavenue.blogspot.com Fascinating bit of NYC lore: the impermanence of 13th Avenue. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Before digital...
via tsutpen.blogspot.com A cover illustration from a pulp magazine in 1933. The mystery and nuance of illustration from the past, lost to us today. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
The line
via tsutpen.blogspot.com Easy, serene and powerful. What an incredible talent. Posted via web from Dan McCarthy’s Stream | Comment »
Look at this: the biggest banks are getting bigger! http://bit.ly/6dL7Mh
A look at last week’s key financial releases and what’s coming up this week. (via Calculated Risk) http://bit.ly/4xYveq
Greenspan think that Bernanke’s bag of tricks is empty. (via Clusterstock) http://bit.ly/5zoTip
10 thought-provoking media/marketing predictions for 2010 (via MediaTrasparent) http://bit.ly/4PMkvq
Wonder what a Millenial is exactly…anyone under 30? A good way to define it. http://bit.ly/4Mb5r1
Who should be fighting bubbles? The Fed, or the free market? (via Econobrowser) http://bit.ly/76ctjf
Social is a “clean” experience relative to Google…if you know what your social graph is. (via AVC) http://bit.ly/6XEei8
Another 2010 forecast about web advertising — search & video are going to jump. (via MediaPost) http://bit.ly/7t1W2U
Staci Kramer’s take on Nook vs. Kindle. I say multi-platform reading SW is the path. (via PaidContent) http://bit.ly/830MlB
Tivo tries to jump the shark to “consumer behavioral marketing” (via PaidContent) http://bit.ly/81G1KA
David Armano jumps from Dachis Group to Edelman Digital: from theory to action. (via Logic + Emotion) http://bit.ly/7iI94S
Remember when newspapers gave away telephone service to grow their sub base? Neither did I. (via BoingBoing) http://bit.ly/5QPzdS
RIP Editor & Publisher…. (video via MediaShift) http://bit.ly/5QPzdS