Just catching up on Seth’s blog where he calls out the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods from visual-literacy.org.
We’re in accord that it’s a twisted alteration on the periodic table – along the likes of the Table of Condiments that Periodically Go Bad.
Still, it’s a great cheat sheet for all sorts of sexy graphs. Plus, [...]

If you like The Office, you’ll probably like Dog Judo.
Nice little viral deal for a draggin’ afternoon at the office.

Earlier in the week, Steve Rubel posted about Edelman’s new two-way press release, which essentially breaks down the meat (or dare we say, pulp) of news content into chunks.
The goal is to provide a way to deliver news that’s more aligned with how communication on the Web is evolving. The first attempt is interesting, [...]

Haven’t been Digging lately? It’s okay. Kevin Rose has allegedly been overstating the number of visitors to his site anyway.
Regardless, if you work in PR, marketing, or otherwise simply consume news, it’s time to check out the site and understand what it’s all about if you haven’t already.
In short, Digg is a site [...]

Tired of that marketing director having logged the most hours playing solitaire while on the clock?
Show him or her up with the best version on solitaire on the Web, complete with photos of your favorite “The Office” characters.
As expected, Michael is the Ace. Surprisingly, Dwight takes the Jack while Jim takes the King. [...]

BusinessWeek takes the conversation about legal concerns surrounding the YouTube deal to new heights.
BW’s Catherine Holahan reports that Mark Cuban is “considering acquiring the independent news agency that’s suing the video-sharing site for copyright violations.”
Who’s Cuban? Well, he runs Blog Maverick – appropriately inspired by the fact that he owns the Dallas Mavericks. [...]

We got a little excited to hear that PRSA was going to be doing a blog from the 2006 PRSA Conference in Salt Lake. The conference is running now until Tuesday.
Unfortunately it’s turning out to be about as interesting as reading the dictionary.
Where are the photos? Where’s the fun? Come on, guys!
The [...]

Having received three solicitations today for in-stream advertising on Web videos, we feel compelled to bring to light some data from Forrester via Adweek:
More than 80 percent of Web video viewers polled by Forrester Research called in-stream ads—placements that appear before or after clips—”annoying” and 75 percent said they ignore them.
Less-intrusive advertising, such as placements [...]

Did Bank of America intend for this video to make its way out on to the Web? The multi-camera production lends some of the PRpulp folks to think so…

What about Microsoft?

Part II of Ricky Gervais/Microsoft U.K. video here.

There are so many different file types for doing the same thing (such as creating/viewing documents, images, video, and music). It often requires all sorts of obscure or expensive software programs to convert these file types from one to another.
There are a couple of online applications that can do all this for you quickly, [...]