www.Dogster.com

If you think Pug owners on Meet Up.com are outrageous, check out Dogster. It’s an online community celebrating dogs and their owners. With over 100,000 members and 6 million monthly page views, the site features extensive dog profiles and social networking tools.

Share your dog’s favorite toy. Reminisce about a memorable walk together. Rate him on qualities ranging from his disposition to his intelligence. Write a doggie diary, or subscribe to a doggie diary rss feed; Of course, share pictures with your doggie friends.

Check out the suite of viral tools. Email a dog; invite other dogs, save the dog to your friend list, or even send a bone (equivalent of a poke). They provide many resources for pet owners, including a state by state pet friendly accommodation listing. This is the most loving social networking forum I’ve seen!

P.S. If you’re a cat person, be sure to check out catster, too.
Picture: Vincent

I had an IPOD moment flying across country this week. I couldn’t have written a better advertisement if I tried. Picture a crying baby causing desperate passengers to seek solace in commiserating glances. Wives attempted to calm their husbands, reminding them that they once flew with infants too. Now picture a handful of us reclining in our chairs, reading peacefully and exchanging silent congratulations while sipping ginger ale and playing with our IPODs. As the other passengers contemplated jumping out of the plane, my only concern was how to avoid snoring as I feel asleep.

P.S. As a noteworthy aside, locate advertising moments and the agencies creating them.
Picture: From the plane, the crying baby culprit featured in shadows.

Sprint

I want to make my Treo 650 into the ultimate citizen journalist machine. This brought me to the Sprint store to locate an audio adapter to conduct interviews. I plan on podcasting in ‘06.

The customer service manager didn’t find any mention of the product in Sprint’s system; He even called another store with no luck. He found the answer in a http://blog.treonauts.com/. It amazes me that employees of a multibillion dollar communications empire relies on blogger information to troubleshoot with their own products.

There’s an old interview with an eccentric journalist at Atlantic monthly worth hearing. He is able to identify sounds at his office and correlate them to music notes and chords. The interview describes his process of finding meaning in the chords created by the noises in his office. He poses several questions about how the sounds in an office create its atmosphere.
Fast forward 13:05 where it starts.

Interview.

I like the idea that the space around us is alive. The noises, smells and sites that surrounded us aren’t passively apart of our background but vitally contribute to our experience. With Meet the Parents in the background and the space heater humming away, I’ll savor my household music.

There’s an old interview with an eccentric journalist at Atlantic monthly worth hearing. He is able to identify sounds at his office and correlate them to music notes and chords. The interview describes his process of finding meaning in the chords created by the noises in his office. He poses several questions about how the sounds in an office create its atmosphere.
Fast forward 13:05 where it starts.

Interview.

I like the idea that the space around us is alive. The noises, smells and sites that surrounded us aren’t passively apart of our background but vitally contribute to our experience. With Meet the Parents in the background and the space heater humming away, I’ll savor my household music.