Oh yeah, and you too, Nic.
POSTED BY Electric Pulp Feb 05, 2008
Oops
POSTED BY Electric Pulp Jan 29, 2008
The Sun Dance
We’ve been working with the Sundance Institute to produce a new community site aimed at connecting independent documentary and human rights. The subject matter is extremely compelling, and the organization behind the effort is one we’re very proud to be working with.
This past week, we had a chance to experience the energy around the project firsthand at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as we snuck away from the office for a few days to help announce the launch of Docsource.
The new site includes discussion areas, film and artist profiles, video clips, and multi-user blogs authored by filmmakers and representatives from the Documentary Film Program (DFP). And that’s just the start. The site will continue to grow over the coming weeks and beyond.
The festival
Snow has kind of jumped the shark in my book, but the festival was incredible. The films we took in were great, the filmmakers we got to meet to were wildly interesting, and a few of us (them) actually got in to see U2-3D. The whole experience was well worth the planes, trains and automobiles effort it took to get out there (all of us were plagued by United “mechanical difficulties.”)
If you’re at all interested, most of us had cameras with us.
No pics of the Airbag guys (we’ll catch you at SXSW), but there’s some good stuff in there. A few of Stefan’s shots even hit the flickr blog.
More updates soon - we’re going Gattaca with the site launches.
POSTED BY michael Dec 20, 2007
Decode quoted-printable text with this handy dandy TextMate command(y)
Next time you find yourself staring at an ugly block of HTML-ish text, copied from the source of an email message, full of strange “=3D” and trailing “=” characters, take heart. The nastiness you’re seeing is called quoted-printable format, and it’s how email keeps lines to a short enough length to be widely compatible with all manner of email servers.
Installation
Download this file, double-click it, and TextMate should do the rest. You’ll now have a command in your Text bundle that you can use to undo the quoted-printable encoding.
It changes this:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D”text/html; charset=3Dutf-8″>
<META content=3D”MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199″ name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style=3D”MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma”>
<DIV>Good afternoon,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Please see the following information from Company. Please =
let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Bobby=
<BR>12/18/07 10:18 AM >>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
To this:
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″>
<META content=”MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199″ name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style=”MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma”>
<DIV>Good afternoon,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Please see the following information from Company. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Bobby<BR>12/18/07 10:18 AM >>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>
Caveat - this command only removes the quoted-printable formatting, don’t expect it to work any magic to make the actual HTML standards compliant.
Enjoy!
POSTED BY stefan Nov 02, 2007
Ethan Kramez.
Congratulations to Mitch and Heather Kramer, on the birth of their new baby boy, Ethan. We don’t have a lot of details yet (he’s pretty fresh), but we do have Mitch’s photostream to keep an eye on.
Cute kid.
POSTED BY aaron Oct 29, 2007
Entrepreneur Magazine interviews Guy Kawasaki
Entrepreneur.com has a great interview with Guy K on his motivations behind truemors. No need to retell, but here’s a random excerpt:
There are four tips here: 1) Make friends [with] vendors before you need them, 2) engage a firm that made a similar product, 3) check references after it’s too late, and 4) work with people from the Midwest [Electric Pulp is in South Dakota; PDG is in Oklahoma].
POSTED BY stefan Oct 16, 2007
An update on makemeamerica.com
It’s been a little over a week since we launched makemeamerica.com for Stephen Colbert, and by way of an update, here are a few points of interest:
- You can now see Stephen’s delightful visage on several top CSS Galleries. We thank you for that, CSS Galleries. America thanks you.
- There have been over 4300 Oprah book club petition signatures.
- As of this morning, the World Domination map is open for business outside the confines of the United States border. Time to conquer the world!
Speaking of international support, check out Canada — they sure are organized up there:
POSTED BY Electric Pulp Oct 08, 2007
Making the Internet More America
If the Internet feels slower today, it may be due in part to a new site we just launched called MakeMeAmerica.com.
What started out as a humble effort to sell a few books has turned into something more: a humble effort with big pictures, hero profiles, video excerpts, a petition to Oprah, flickr photo integration, and an interactive world domination map. (And lots of easter eggs.)
The book, I Am America (And So Can You), is written by Stephen Colbert, host of The Colbert Report on Comedy Central and namesake of a baby bald eagle in Bonita Springs.
The Colbert team quickly determined that, in addition to being able to read books, the show’s audience also seemed to have ready access to the internets. One idea turned into two, and pretty soon, Electric Pulp was in on the plan. The rest, as they say, is history.
POSTED BY angela Oct 04, 2007
Questionable Answer
For some reason, this sculpture by Em did not draw any accurate guesses:
p.s. We are working. To the productive sounds of Donna Summer’s ‘Hot Stuff’.
POSTED BY angela Oct 04, 2007
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
POSTED BY angela Oct 04, 2007
Indiana Bound
Boo to Nic, for leaving the land of South Dakota, to pursue an Indy lifestlye.
Yay to Nic, for working remotely.
Yay to Dubs for bringing in Going Away treats.
Boo to Dubs for only bringing enough Red Vines for Nic.
POSTED BY aaron Sep 26, 2007
Incase phuter profiled in Fast Company
Just got an IM from Greg about an interesting article in FastCompany. The article, written by Robert Scoble, discusses consumer engagement and social experience with Yahoo’s Brad Garlinghouse and Bradley Horowitz.
“The more you can engage with your consumers and provide tools back to them, the more viral your services will become,” Horowitz says.
Wise words. Wiser still, the example Scoble uses to bring the story to life:
Visit the Web site of iPhone-case manufacturer Incase (goincase.com), and you’ll see embedded Flickr photos along the bottom. The net effect is that Incase showcases its corporate personality and lets you be part of its community. You can put a photo on this page simply by adding the Flickr tag “goincase” to your snapshot.
I wonder who built that site… Oh, that’s right! Electric Pulp did!1!
High 5, Incase. High 5, Hummel. High 5, Scoble. Good game.
ps: Congrats to the Scobles on the new baby. And the new 5D.
POSTED BY aaron Aug 05, 2007
MetalMulisha.com
Metal Mulisha recently engaged us to help kick a redesigned site live in time for the X Games. The new site features a podcast-happy blog, video galleries, photo galleries, full cms, standards-compliant everything, etc. We’ll come back to the case study later (no we won’t), but you can check out the site now.
If you get sucked too far into the videos / pics, just make sure you don’t try any of it at home. Two words: Brian Deegan, Viva La Bam. Ouch. Okay, that was more than two, but these guys are crazy insane. Two words isn’t enough.