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Never too late

Ok, so I do all my reading/posting at night… so I end up playing catch up on a lot. I’m kind of debating what this blog should be about. More on this later.

In the mean time, here are four stories you probably read about on everyone else already:

- NY Times: “A Web Site So Hip It Gets Laddies to Watch the Ads” Heavy.com users say ‘ads schmads.’

Heavy’s founders and chief executives, Simon Assaad and David Carson, both 35, say they modeled the frenetic site — with quick-triggered interactive features and almost no text — more on a video game than any other media form.About half of the videos are submitted by amateurs, but Mr. Carson and Mr. Assaad put up only those that fit Heavy’s rude and wry sensibility.

- Newsweek’s web 2.0 article has everyone commenting. More comments. More… yawn.

- Whitespace: “Ugly design getting too much credit” on bad design that thrives. (Ebay, Craigslist, MySpace) And a great comic on the topic.

- Media Post: “Google tests ads on maps

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