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These guys at thecoolhunter.net<\/a> must keep a close eye on the pulse of the blogosphere, because I got this notice just hours after I posted my earlier article, Cool Hunting in C’ville. <\/p>\n Check out their beautifully designed site<\/a> for cool things from all over the globe. I was amused by this Brazilian bicycle bus which takes people on exercise bikes to the beach<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I enjoyed their site, but in their efforts to be terminally cool, they left out features that would have made their blog more effective.<\/p>\n T<\/span>here is no way to leave comments or to send anyone an email! There are no permalinks either!<\/em> <\/p>\n It’s not really a blog, although they have gone to great trouble to make it look like one. At least they aren’t making the mistake that Panasonic made by creating a fake blogger to promote Panasonic products!<\/p>\n My compliments to Cool Hunter for finding me and acknowledging my efforts. A few tweaks to your blog and it will enable you to communicate with your cool public. Moderated comments are in, by the way. Failing to permit comments is so uncool…<\/p>\n Incidently cool hunting may be on the verge of becoming mainstream, and therefore uncool, because there is another site with a similar URL, Cool Hunting<\/a>. This is another site full of cool things but it is so commercial that it is like a UPDATE: But they do have permalinks and a lot of other handy tools for telling your friends about the cool things on their site.<\/p>\n Their site contains this great definition:<\/p>\n Cool Hunting: finding things in the intersection of design, culture and Has anyone else seen things that fit this definition? Let me know and I’ll write about it.<\/p>\n Tags: cool hunting<\/a>, Funny<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been cool hunted. I just received this in an email with no accompanying text. Thanks! These guys at thecoolhunter.net must keep a close eye on the pulse of the blogosphere, because I got this notice just hours after … Continue reading <\/a> <\/p>\nKMart<\/del> <\/span>Sharper Image Store of coolness. This second site is also deficient in that they have not recognized the need to allow comments.<\/p>\n\n
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