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QUICK LIST THIS WEEK BUSY BUSY BUSY

• Thing: Attention Is the Real Resource by John Gruber. Should publishers offer full posts or teasers in their RSS feeds? Somehow it’s still up for debate. Our stance is that “Click for more after the jump” sounds the same as “Goodbye” to most readers. Gruber: “A reader asking for a full-content RSS feed is a reader who wants to pay more attention to what you publish. There have to be ways to thrive financially from that.”
• Thing: What May Happen in the Next 100 Years by Ladies’ Home Journal, 1900. Someone dug up a IN THE YEAR 2000 list of predictions that’s… actually really close to right, from the Internet to air travel to agricultural genetic engineering. (Not the intricacies of each, of course, but the effects. Also I would link to the blog this came from, but that blog’s been removed by Blogger for SPAMMIN’.)
• Thing: REVERSE GRAFFITI: South African Artists Tag Walls By Scrubbing Them Clean by Inhabitat. Self-explanatory:

Unrelated Video: Spring Is Pretty Much Here, Tusas

In honor of another winter’s passing, it’s time to pay respects to all those who tried to have a phone conversation on a frozen lake and kept getting corralled by stunt bikers. Take it away, Tusas on ice:

Take a look here: SwimAtlanta.com.

While we’re at it:

SwimAtlanta Before & After

Before ENGINE

After ENGINE

We have a proposition for you.

We want to give you $100; let’s get the ball rolling. All that needs to happen: You send a friend or colleague our way. If we end up taking on a website project for them, we owe you a $100 finder’s fee.

Your neighbor’s grandma needs a WordPress site? $100. Son-in-law needs Drupal work? $100.

That’s $100 for you, from us, if you send us someone who becomes our client. Thank goodness, we can finally send Ben Franklin home to you.

Example scenario:

Your aunt: My small business needs a new website.
You: You should hire Engine.
(She hires Engine)
Us: Here is $100.
(We give you $100)
You: Thank you.

Stipulations:

• Make sure they mention your name when they contact us. Obviously.
• No chicanery. We know you won’t do this, but we want to make sure nobody else tries any of that oh-boy-I’ll-get-my-friend-to-refer-me-and-we’ll-split-the-$100 nonsense. We’re all grownups here.
• No limit. We love building websites as much as you love getting $100. Which means we’d be insane and cruel to cut off you and us both. This offer stands, rain or shine. Why not refer 10 friends at once? One friend per season? 1,000 friends by 2049? Think big!

These are our terms. Your task: Make it rain like Tlaloc.

We’re delighted to announce the all-new GreenBuildingsNYC.com is live.

gbNYC has long been New York’s premier source of green real estate news and insights, but they wanted to keep growing and offering more. So they partnered with a major Manhattan real estate broker and hired us to rebuild and redesign their Wordpress blog as a fleshed-out Drupal site, packed with new features like socially moderated products, building listings, and more, with even more cool features on the way.

Helping to combine one of New York’s most trusted authorities on green real estate with a high-end Manhattan condo broker, ENGINE expanded gbNYC’s range of services beyond any other competing site’s. The new gbNYC is up and running, but its best is yet to come.

Author, gourmet chef, and nutrition counselor Alexandra Jamieson (you might also know her as Morgan Spurlock’s life-saver in Super Size Me) put ENGINE to the task of whipping up a wholesome, hearty website.

She needed a way to incorporate her nutritional expertise, community of women, and lifestyle guidance into one smart website. We built her a custom Wordpress site that meets all her needs, allowing her to manage every bit of her own content–from her media kit to her blog.

Have a sampling at NutritionForEmpoweredWomen.com.