There is a growing and unusual phenomenon where site authors pursue a different approach. Many people have created sites that span merely a single page and do one thing—or nothing. These sites, which writer Jason Kottke termed “single serving sites” in February 20081, capture visitors’ attention for a fraction of a minute, a tacit acknowledgement of the economy of attention in which they operate. In this space they express many traditional messages that have found an emerging new form of expression on the Internet. Dozens of tiny, single serving sites provide a venue for pop culture references, inside jokes, art displays, collective action, bids for peer approval, humor, and advice. Collectively they offer a perspective on the web as a platform for a unique brand of storytelling.

I'd like to say it'S a great read but I haven't read it yet. Yet, they say it's a great read.

Jeff Grant, the company’s workforce planning manager for the Oregon district (that includes Vancouver, WA), says UPS plans to hire 28 bike delivery employees this season. In the Portland metro area, Grant says eight riders will be hired.

I think it's Bitner in Brand Sense (but it might be Lenderman or Lindstrom, I don't quite remember) who said that auto manufacturers were amongst the first to orient their advertising toward emotions and experiences. Well check this out …

French car manufacturer Citroën have designed Hypnos, a diesel-electric hybrid 4×4 concept car. A camera installed in the ceiling monitors the driver’s facial expressions and alters the cabin’s lighting and smell according to their mood…the concept car and begin an unforgettable sensory adventure.

Bettie Page, a legendary pinup girl whose photographs in the nude, in bondage and in naughty-but-nice poses appeared in men’s magazines and private stashes across America in the 1950s and set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious ’60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. She was 85.

I think this is the next step in tour companies. I mean, the last 4-5 cities I've been to, I wasn't really interested to visit as such. I wanted to see like, the number 1 attraction and then whatever, I didn't really care. I was mostly there to see friends and I knew they would bring me to some undiscovered place and that I could have a real feeling of how it is to live in that city …

"The company offers truly local-flavor trips and tours that let the customer see the city from a long-term native’s perspective. From contemporary architecture to bespoke fashion, home style to the traditional capital corners, there isn’t much Urban Gentry can’t show you."

We’ve made a decision to stop publishing on Marktd. Despite making changes to focus on the creative/marketing ideas sister site of PSFK.com, we are still unhappy with the quantity and quality of the site.

: as quick as they may be to call shenanigans on corporate / brand hype, Chinese netizens still enjoy interesting, well-made viral videos even after they’ve realized that they’re being marketed to. The following selection of videos have recently become popular on mainland Chinese video Web sites.

I think it's great that the music industry is actually trying not die.. and plus it's creating new ways to "experience" and interact with your fav artists. ..

As album sales continue to decline, gadgets and games may help ensure the survival of the music business. Indeed, the most tech-savvy bands are already recording songs for distribution exclusively through new channels opened up by the iPhone, the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3.

Hip hop mixtapes used to be a street thing—cassettes and (later) CDs crudely dubbed by local DJs and MCs to be passed around as a grassroots promo tool. But between the RIAA crackdown and the bandwidth explosion, up-and-coming artists began migrating to the Web, harnessing blogs, zip files, and free file-sharing services like Megaupload to find fans and launch careers well before their actual albums come out. "Mixtapes create a product for people to wrap their heads around," says Nick Catchdubs, cofounder of the DJ-run record label Fool's Gold. "An artist could release a million individual MP3s to the Internet, but a solid mixtape makes way more of a statement." Here's a look at the new school of mixtape maestros — and their upcoming releases.