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This is the weblog of Kit Kemper. It is generally about marketing. Marketing in the sense that pretty much everything you do as a company and more often as a person these days devolves into marketing of some sort or another. It is also about tech in much the same way as it is about marketing, technology touches more of our lives every day and where people, marketing, and technology converge there are some pretty interesting things happening.
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Image: Designing for Edge Cases
Note: I am sure that I am going to stir up a shit storm with this, but it is more of an observation and a bit of a question than a complaint. Weightwatchers.com has a feature in their meal tracker that allows customers to track important metrics each day – things like taking a vitamin, [...]
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Michael Ruhlman’s BLT from Scratch – Summertime Challenge and My Obsession with the Perfect Sandwich
Food writer Michael Ruhlman has a post on his blog challenging his readers to create a BLT from scratch, photograph it and submit it. Creating a BLT from scratch in his mind means curing the pancetta, baking the bread, growing the lettuce and tomatoes and making the mayo from scratch. Despite the fact that I [...]
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A Vegetarian Goat Rancher
I find the changes taking place in the agriculture business to be really promising. I, too, am a vegetarian and couldn't fathom eating goat, but I think diversification of the American pallet and a focus on producing really high quality small scale products is a good thing.
NYT Article on Text Books
Further to my post on a posited Amazon Kindle foray into text books, the New York Times has an article on electronic versions of text books and some of the dilemmas that current models present. I mentioned in my post that the individual consumer doesn’t get to select which book is used. The Times points [...]
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Editing Life
Merlin Mann weblebrity of a variety of sorts, has outright stated something on his Tumblelog Kung Fu Grippe that it seems he has been bumping up against for some time and captures a feeling that I have had for a while now as well. With this diet metaphor in mind, I want to, if you [...]
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I Learned Everything I Know from Bento Porn
Something strange happened today, and it seemed noteworthy so I relate it here. I have begun bringing my lunch to work (save money, eat better, blah bitty blah blah) and my vessel of choice is Mr. Bento. Mr. Bento is a tremendous modern (and Japanese!) replacement for the lunchbox: a bullet shaped container with four [...]
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A Note on Reverse Osmosis
For some reason, I have noticed the term “reverse osmosis” or the even worse “reverse osmosis filter” being thrown about quite a bit lately. This bothers me immensely. Osmosis is the movement of a liquid across a membrane from an area of low concentration to high contration. Effectively, you are diluting the concentration of a [...]
Is MoblieMe Working?
Apple’s new MobileMe service has come under a lot of fire since it’s launch and has encountered a number of severe difficulties involving uptime, faux push functionality, and lost customer emails. The whole thing has seemed quite un-apple like. I by no means have the intention of piling on, but I am going to anyway. [...]
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The Academic eBook Reader
Rumor has it that Amazon may be releasing their Kindle eBook reader in a modified format for the academic market. Having been employed by a number of text book publishers, my initial reaction was a gasp and shudder. Upon further reflection, this may just be the innovation that the text book market needs. For a [...]
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What If Amazon Could Care Less About the Apple Tablet