designBytes - The Electronic Newsletter of the IDSA
Well I don’t have too much beef with the IDSA (in fact I met my girlfriend there) but did anyone else notice that their newsletter is having a go at all our beloved profession, every time?
Design bites. I know! Tell me about it.
Come on fellas! Doesn’t anyone say these titles out loud before making it part of the brand strategy?
As it happens, my girlfriend was invited in a super geeky technology/business contest at Stanford some time last year. The contest was trying to find innovative business models that used technology to help those in need in third world countries. Lots of nerdy engineers and awkward business types. The name of the contest?
“The Social-E Challenge.”
I don’t think anyone else noticed the irony. Shame.
Back when I was a member I noticed that they’d typically poach the things being blogged to core77, mostly the things that I myself had blogged there. So much of the blogosphere is indeed reblogging, but it’d be nice once in a while if they had acknowledged that I existed and that was a good source of content for them, rather than deliberately repackaging it as their own premium content!
Comment by Steve Portigal — January 12, 2006 @ 8:42 pm
The reblogging phenomena is rampant. blog to blog is at least in the same time frame (due to the publication process) but blog to newsletter is just lame.
Comment by est1976 — January 13, 2006 @ 10:33 am
The Social E-Challenge was a very respectable contest, I’ll have you know.
Comment by est1976 — January 13, 2006 @ 8:26 pm