Community Guy – Jake McKee

links for 2007-09-10

• GrandLuxe Rail Journeys
  Spend vastly more time and money getting from Point A to Point B, but have a better time along the way with incredible railroad journeys.
  (tags: travel railroad)
• Write a perfect email / Wired How To’s
  …because we all need reminder of how to best write emails.
  (tags: email writing)
• Seth’s Blog: How to spend $20 million
  While I love the fact that Apple is giving $100 credit to iPhone early buyers, Seth points out that there are other ways they could have handled this. Was the irritation of early buyers really a surprise to Apple?
  (tags: apple marketing customerservice)
• DailyCaption – Taking Flickr photos out of context.
  “DailyCaption is a community that takes Flickr photos out of context. Each night, a new Flickr photo is generated for members to contribute new captions and rate others.”
  (tags: flickr photography)
• Part III: Andrew Keen and the Cult of the Amateur
  Part 3 of a 3 part (duh) series of blog posts about why my least favorite author, Andrew Keen, is leading a pointless charge to rid the world of the plague of UGC. Well worth the read.
  (tags: community journalism usergeneratedcontent)
• Banner Blindness: Old and New Findings (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  NEWS FLASH: Banner ads don’t work!
  (tags: advertising)