links for 2006-09-20
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A podcaster’s dream: A USB, high quality, cheap microphone.
I need your help!
I’ve volunteered to put together a panel discussion at SXSW next year, and the way the panels are being chosen this year is at least partially based on community voting. Head over the panel picker, select the “Community” category and scroll down to my entry. Here’s the panel description:
Thanks!
Today’s lunch fortune:
“You have a reputation for being straight forward and honest.”
Hey, if the cookie says it, it must be true.
Seriously, how could you not like getting cool stuff for free for free for doing nearly nothing?
I just won (actually one of my connections won) a $50 Visa check card through Blingo. If you’ve not been paying attention when I’ve talked about Blingo in the past, it’s a search engine that uses the Google API to conduct searches. So it’s Google + prizes. It’s not a scam – this is prize #19 for me… I’ve won everything from movie tickets to a Sony PSP.
If you haven’t signed up, sign up now under me and we both win if you do.
When I was on the front lines of community interaction with LEGO, I started an invite-only, non-competing mailing list for community managers and people who put their hands on community interaction on a daily basis. The group has always remained small and low-traffic, but I’d like to grow it a bit more.
If you’re interested in joining, drop me an email (jake@biggu.com) and let me know why you want to join.
After several weeks of work, the new Big in Japan web site (www.biggu.com) is live! We’ve outlined our services, reskinned the blog, and added new info about our work.
Stop by and check it out when you get a chance. We’d love to hear your feedback!
Remember when I mentioned that MySpace was facing a serious problem with long-term surviability? Here’s a screenshot I received after I logged in today… yikes.

Yes, that’s right, the error message says: "DisabledErrorMessage 9/13/2006"