The best of the Web for Monday, June 22nd

Here’s a list of the best links I stumbled across on the Web today. I keep about 65 feeds at any time in my google reader and try to at least browse every headline on a daily basis. Here are some of my favorites from today.

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/06/food-photography-made-easy-lunch-box.html
My fiancee makes amazing food. I might start photographing it like this demo shows.

http://storecrowd.com/blog/wordpress-optimisation/

With the arrival of WordPress 2.8, here is an optimization guide.

http://sivers.org/jam
Don’t overload the buyer with choices. Give me two choices, but don’t give me the option of thinking I’m making the wrong choice.

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How it goes down this day in age…

….compliments of the Chicago Tribune.

Facebook love

So, just how useful is Twitter?

A lot of people have asked me about functional uses for Twitter in recent weeks and I think I really just found one. [Read more...]

Embracing the social media jazz

Anyone will tell you that I’m as big a social media nut as anyone. One thing I haven’t really embraced is a service like Flickr. Until now. The problem I always had was the ease of adding photos. Now that Picasa has a ‘send to Flickr’ button I’ve solved that.

So…here is my Flickr

Oh yeah, then there’s that….

…my office discovered Jott today. While discussing interconnectedness of our lives I made the comment that Millie and I discovered last night we have several ways of communicating…nine that we use frequently…phone, SMS, Skype, text, gtalk, AIM, SkypeIM, twitter and facebook wall.

A comment from the peanut gallery…”You should throw her off and write her a letter”

Well done Matt, well done.