CBGB to reopen—but as a high-end fashion boutique… Seriously.
Click here to read the unfortunate news.
Linked via digg.
Sendecki’s Blog
Decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse…
Raising Money: The Bless Back Project
Last week, Elevation Church in North Carolina did something quite commendable. They take in an average of $40,000 weekly (despite the lack of a building of their own). They’re trying to raise capital to get one.
So, what are they doing for their capital campaign? Something that at first blush seems counter-intuitive.
When pastor Steven Furtick instructed members to pluck from the collection bowls, filled with envelopes containing $5, $10, $20, $50 or $100, some people didn’t believe it. One person at each of the five services even got an envelope with $1,000.
Members looked at Furtick like “What’s the punchline?” he recalled. “Then the creative wheels started turning.”
The money isn’t to keep, Furtick told them. Instead, members were to go out and do something random for someone else.
Get inventive, he said, and tell us about it.
Read more by clicking here. I discovered this link via Digg. If you’ve never been to Digg—get there; it’s a great site.
Another URL shortening service!
Nothing at all new here—but I thought it useful to point out another way to turn long URLs into short ones, so you can paste links into emails without them wrapping (and therefore becoming unusable).
Bookmark this one, because it belongs to a friend. Just visit the site, enter the URL you want to abbreviate, and there you go!
You receive a new short URL that should last forever. If you have firefox, it can also be added to your browser toolbar via Javascript—which makes the whole thing even easier.
Anyway, shorten that URL by clicking here.
LinkBag, a new bookmarking service
Keeping abreast of the huge number of new web-based applications that are appearing every day is, frankly, an impossible job—not one that I would want to undertake. But as there are some very interesting betas around and its nice to lazily keep an eye on what’s going down.
I have recently discovered a new bookmarking service called LinkBag. LinkBag is new and is currently in beta, but is promising in its simplicity! Linkbag allows you to save and share web sites and pages of interest much the same way Del.icio.us does. Users can ‘bag’ a site, annotate it, and save it to a group of similar sites.
For example, here’s my Linkbag.
Have a taste for bookmarking and organizing a large number of Web sites? Linkbag can whet that appetite, giving you simple tools to organize those pages, access them later from any Web browser, and share what you save with other users or on your blog. Plus, you can tap into the Linkbag community to find sites that other users have saved. I find it to be a lot more delicious than some tools out there—but then maybe I’m a little biased! Not because it offers a greater feature set, but because it retains the simplicity and grace of the aforementioned website.
To get started, just visit Linkbag to create a free account, verify it, and log in. You can add new bookmarks individually within a simple form at Linkbag, or drag a bookmarklet to your browser’s bookmark/links toolbar, so that you can click Post To Linkbag without leaving the window. It’s pretty cool.
Saving sites is made simple by the use of downloadable browser buttons. An RSS feed is available for your links and a forthcoming widget can be displayed on your web site or blog, previewing your most recent bookmarks. Although very similar to other bookmarking services in its functionality, LinkBag is a very nice addition. LinkBag also has the edge on other services with its aesthetically pleasing and simple interface.
The text-and-white-space interface of Linkbag remains monochromatic with a touch of blue, which is simple in its execution. The overall lack of design means Linkbag loads in a snap, so you don’t have to wait for big images to appear if you’re stuck with a dial-up connection.
Text ads appear within the Linkbag site, but they’re pretty low-key.
Happy Bug
Snapped on my cameraphone at the corner of Fairview and Guelph Line around 2pm.
That’s a photo on the door (I think) of Barbara Eden from “I Dream of Jeannie“
