Jul
31
2009
Web based services for e-mail marketing, listservs, newsletters, publications:
Here is a good start if you’re looking for some email marketing tools:
Constant Contact (constantcontact):
http://www.constantcontact.com
iContact
www.icontact.com
Mail Chimp (mailchimp)
http://www.mailchimp.com
http://www.mailchimp.com/pricing/
Vertical Response
http://www.verticalresponse.com/
StreamSend
http://www.streamsend.com/
Create Send (createsend)
http://www.boldcode.com/createsend/
My Emma (myemma)
http://www.myemma.com/
Campaign Monitor (campaignmonitor)
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/
Get Response (get response)
http://www.getresponse.com/
Jango Mail
http://www.jangomail.com/
Peer 360 (pricey but very powerful)
http://www.peer360.com/
Desktop Software
E-Campaign (ecampaign)
http://www.lmhsoft.com/ecamp/
Direct Mail (mac) (directmail)
http://ethreesoftware.com/directmail/
Comments | tags: email, Marketing | posted in Design, Marketing
Jul
30
2009
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29
2009
Comments | posted in Web Development
Jul
27
2009
Comments | posted in Web Development
Jul
25
2009
The Rod of Asclepius has traditionally been the symbol for healing and medicine. However, over time the Caduceus has been confused with the Rod of Asclepius and mistakenly used to represent medicine.
“A 1992 survey of American health organizations found that 62% of professional associations used the rod of Asclepius, whereas in commercial organizations, 76% used the caduceus.”Graphically, the Caduceus makes is a more elaborate symbol and would be more fun to use in a logo, however, it’s origins are not related to medicine or healing.
The caduceus is sometimes used as a symbol for medicine or physicians (instead of the rod of Asclepius) even though the symbol has no connection with Hippocrates and any association with healing arts is something of a stretch. Its singularly inappropriate connotations of theft, commerce, deception and death have provided fodder for academic humor.
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The rod of Asclepius (sometimes also spelled Asklepios or Aesculapius), also known as the asklepian,[1] is an ancient symbol associated with astrology, the Greek god Asclepius and with healing. It consists of a serpent entwined around a staff. The name of the symbol derives from its early and widespread association with Asclepius, the son of Apollo, who was a practitioner of medicine in ancient Greek mythology. His attributes, the snake and the staff, sometimes depicted separately in antiquity, are combined in this symbol.[2] The Rod of Asclepius also represents the constellation Ophiuchus (or Ophiuchus Serpentarius), the thirteenth sign of the sidereal zodiac.
clipped from en.wikipedia.org
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The caduceus is typically depicted as a short herald’s staff entwined by two serpents in the form of a double helix, and sometimes is surmounted by wings. This staff first was borne by Iris, the messenger of Hera. It also was called the wand of Hermes when he superseded Iris in much later myths.
clipped from en.wikipedia.org
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Examples

Guess which one our National Government is using?
“Everyone’s searching for Barack Obama’s health care logo online right now after Rush Limbaugh mentioned how a right-wing blog thinks it looks like something from Nazi Germany.” - From buzzfeed.com via jameskurtz

Comments | posted in Design, Science
Jul
24
2009
So I know it’s really suppose to be a rendeition of the w and 3, but with the low height of the W and the curvy, 3 with the spine chopped off, it looks more like a butt and an ear – especially in their favicon
Comments | posted in Design, Marketing
Jul
24
2009
Comments | posted in Random
Jul
24
2009
| Blackballing was a rejection technique used in elections to membership of a gentlemen’s club (as well as similarly organised institutions such as Freemasonry and fraternities). The principle of such a club was that it was self-perpetuating; i.e., new members could only be elected by existing members. This was to ensure that new members were congenial to the old members, which helped to preserve the ethos (and exclusivity) of the club. The term is also used as a synonym to blacklist. |
| The favoured method of election was by the ballot box, which was a wooden box into which those participating in the election placed a small ball or ballot. A white ball signified support; a black ball signified opposition. The box was usually designed so that observers could not see how the voter was voting; it was all done under cover of the box, or of a combination of a cloth and the box itself. |
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Comments | posted in History, Etymology
Jul
24
2009
Schrödinger’s Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills the cat. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while, the cat is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the box, we see the cat either alive or dead, not a mixture of alive and dead. |
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Comments | posted in History, Etymology, Science