Drew Brees – I didn’t know he was on Twitter or had a blog or that he was going to have a top 10 most memorable Super Bowl shot of all time. He won big.
Google – Considering the utter lack of creativity in commercials this year (keep it classy GoDaddy) maybe Google should take over everything?
Fox/ABC/NBC – Was it just me or did CBS make it look like they’d never done a professional football broadcast before?
Favre – That Manning pick will make us forget about his atrocities for at least 36 hours or until Rachel Nichols pitches her tent in his pasture.
Conan O’Brien – Uh, what was that?
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People (including me) always say silly things like “I don’t know what to do with my life” or “I wish I had majored in something useful.” The majority of the time that’s false…and lazy.
Recently, though, I was thinking about what I would do if I could do it all over again, if I was just about to enter college.
Web design.
As information grows (Google reported 1 trillion different URLs in 2008!) the sites, companies, and blogs that win will be the ones with the best design (unfortunately that’s not me right now…). And the ones with the best design will continue to need the best designers.
Consider the top 10 (or 100 if you like) most trafficked sites on the Web. They all have great design and organization. And they all evolve. Well, except for Google, but they don’t play by the same rules.
What if you had to do it over again?
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There’s a Bass Pro Shop about 1 hr from where I live. A mile further there’s a basketball stadium where an NBA team plays. Whenever I go to basketball games at this arena I always park at Bass Pro.
I park there because it’s free (the alternative is $5-$25), even though I have to walk for 10-15 minutes. There are many signs in the Bass Pro parking lot that say things like “customers only” and “no game parking.” I ignore them.
My question is this: why does Bass Pro not embrace this “problem”? Instead of shooing people away with signage why don’t they rent a van for 1-2 hours and charge people $1-$2 (I would pay up to $3) for a ride to the stadium? They could accomplish two things by doing this:
- Make a little extra cash 41 times a year (more if the Thunder make the playoffs). Although this is probably negligible considering their massive annual revenue…
- [more importantly] Create a good rapport with hundreds of people near my town by showing they care about the community.
What are your thoughts?
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Here’s part III and here’s part IV. Still can’t figure out how to embed, sorry!
Chandler makes an interesting reference to a Piper talk at Passion. He says that Piper asked the question, “who did Jesus die for?” and the answer wasn’t “me” or “us.” I was fairly curious so I did a little sleuthing and came up with this lengthy article by Piper addressing the matter. Enjoy.
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A friend of mine, we’ll call him Brad, was a counselor at Falls Creek camp about 10 years ago and he tells a great story about how Chandler basically preached Desiring God to all these little middle schoolers who didn’t really get it but liked him because he was hilarious. Brad went on to say that Chandler told thousands of these rugrats that he would mouth-kiss John Piper. Brad didn’t know if he was kidding, I told him he probably wasn’t.
Anyway, here’s a link to that video, I can’t get it embedded. I think there’s an inappropriate joke about myself and women somewhere in that sentence but I’ll leave it be.
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