Catablog

Friday Links of the Week

June 13, 2008


It's Friday, and that means Links of the Week at CATALYST! Enjoy these links below, and post your favorite links of the week in the comments below. Fridays at the catablog are your destination for AWESOME.

COLDPLAY, new album streaming FREE at IHeartMusic.com (and a little bit at MySpace, too).

SIGUR ROS a creative, innovative band from ... not America, also streaming album free, on their website.

Anything Short of Sin - nothing short of awesome.

The future of DIGG: clustering users to help you find content more easily. Also, the Christian version, WWJDIGG is due-out early July.

Donald Miller and the Ride Well Tour. Very interactive site tracking their trek across the country, raising money to build wells in Africa.

NEW iPhone! $199! - um, everybody knows this already, but do you know THIS!

Monkey controls robot arm with brain waves. Next step, monkey world domination. Way to go, science ...

Starbucks now offers 2 hours free wifi - yay! Also, stock in Computer-guys-taking-over-the-comfy-starbucks-chairs just shot-up 10 points.

Clean Graffiti - or Reverse Graffiti, or Graffiti by Subtraction, or Dirtffiti ...

WEEKLY COMMENTARY:
Free is the new marketing strategy. It's amazing to see two major bands offering their music for FREE, and now free-ish wifi at Starbucks. Will giving stuff away for free result in higher sales? Apparently the top level marketing folks think so. Is it that good resources for free are so noteworthy they'll gain free headlines? For the music, is it that everyone will start listening to it at work and then everyone hears about the new CD?

LifeChurch.tv offers all of their content for free, could this explain some of their popularity in the Church world?

Why is FREE the new strategy? Post your interesting links below OR your comments on FreEconomics.