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How freaking San Francisco is this?

I love it.

[via The San Francisco Egotist]

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It’s the end of the year. I ought to be toiling away on year-end posts like “AdPulp’s 10 Best Commericals of 2010,” or “AdPulp’s 10 Best Content Marketing Campaigns of 2010,” or “AdPulp’s 10 Best Social Media Marketing Campaigns of 2010,” and so on. Because that’s what you, dear reader, want. Lists. Recaps. Organization and categorization. Right?

Understand, I’m not against making lists. In fact, here’s a curated list of mostly first-hand reporting and a few “thought pieces” that I posted to AdPulp this year. It’s a “Best of” kind of thing, although I prefer for you to tell me which of our pieces are best. At any rate, I hope you’ll agree that the following posts are worth a second look:

Creativity Might Be Random, But The Pursuit Of It Is Not

Modern Digital Life Can Be #SoIrritating

You Are Not The Information You Share

Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Cyborg Aerobics

Mile High Meditations

To Win Big Like Gary Vee, You Have To Care Like Gary Vee

Center Stage With Portland’s Most Successful Communicator

Fighting Words

Strategy Was His Strength, Not Disaster

Time For A Raise

Hundreds Gather At #SoFresh To Further Their Knowledge of Social Media Best Practices

Here’s A Story For You

Broadly Relevant But Highly Differentiated

Feed The Wiki, Which In Turn Feeds Search

Ad Guys And Gumshoes

Migration To Digital Not As Tough As The Oregon Trail, But Still Tough

Big Omaha Is A Big Deal

You Can Learn To Innovate, Or Fall Far Far Behind

Wicked Party, But How Do We Measure It?

Gamification, Second Cousin To Californication

I See A Cyber Lion In Someone’s Future

FB, The Ubiquitous Utility

That’s What The Money’s For

Should We Continue AdPulp Forever? Yes But No But Yes.

What’s A Hashtag? Social Media Just Isn’t That Cool Anymore.

Bloggers Shed Their Pajamas For Silk Robes And Other Finery

AIGA Studio Tour: Second Story

And our 2010 “AdPulp Interviews” with: Chris Maley; Tom Asacker; Luke Sullivan; Tracy Wong, John Schofield and Mark Watson; and Doug Lowell.

Reading is work and it requires your undivided attention, which is a lot to ask. So, I sincerely thank you for taking the path of most resistance and reading all these words.

Happy New Year!

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One man’s schwag is another man’s prized collectible. Such is the case with the miniature toy replicas of famous people, whimsically known as bobbleheads.

A popular item in the 1950s and ’60s, bobbleheads experienced a renaissance after appearing as giveaways at baseball games in the 1990s, according to this Seattle Times story.

Today, these fun toys are big business. Funko, a Seattle-area bobblehead maker has gone from three to 17 employees, and from a 1,000-square-foot facility in Snohomish to a 17,000-square-foot warehouse in Lynnwood, Wash.

Funko is one of the world’s largest suppliers of pop-culture bobbleheads, this year shipping more than 900,000 units of about 70 models.

In the last five years, the company’s annual revenue has grown from $850,000 to an expected $10 million this year.

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