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POSTED BY aaron May 19, 2008

What we’re doing

It’s been a busy 12 months. In many ways, our business has been redefined. Our team has grown and evolved, our style and portfolio have matured, and we’ve refocused on the web - spending more time creating applications, channels and communities. But, if you judged us only by our blog, you might think the opposite.

Truth told, we’re having a hard time keeping the Pulp blog connected to what we have going on. But that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped chattering about it. We’ve just moved it around a bit.

Most of us are sharing on flickr, dopplr, upcoming, del.icio.us, vimeo, and others. But more than anything else, we’ve been hitting twitter.

Most of you are probably familiar enough with twitter to have a strong opinion on the service. And, if you’re really familiar with the service, you’ve probably had at least two strongly distinct opinions. We’re in the latter category.

So, while we can’t promise that all of our tweets are about our company, our work, or our clients, we can tell you it’s the best way to stay connected to what we’re up to. So with that, and a quick disclaimer regarding our deregulated (read: brutally casual) demeanor, we wanted to let you know how to find us.

Aaron
Angela
Emily
George
Joe
Max
Michael
Stefan
Wendy

I know, that isn’t all of us. Mitch has been masquerading as the voice of ElectricPulp and Michael Hall is passionately apathetic regarding the whole [twitter] thing. Nic quit it, and Tanya, well, she doesn’t have a twitter story yet.

In any event, we’d love to connect. Add us as friends and @ us to let us know. We’re looking forward to hearing what you’re up to.

POSTED BY michael hall May 19, 2008

The dumbest thing George and Max fought about today

m: is that vista?
g: no, that’s safari
m: oh yeah. it is
g: no wait. it’s firefox.
m: no, it’s safari

POSTED BY Electric Pulp Mar 26, 2008

narcissist wednesday - wk 3

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POSTED BY Electric Pulp Mar 19, 2008

narcissist wednesday wk2

Emily

George

m2

mitch and angie

nic

tanya

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POSTED BY Electric Pulp Mar 13, 2008

“It’s not unusual to have fun with anyone…”

tom.jpgSaturday, we all depart to watch first-hand, the man who has graced our hold music for the past 4 years. Whoever says a company party at a Tom Jones concert in a Minnesota casino doesn’t sound like fun, is kidding themselves.

Stay tuned for the flickr streams… we will be rocking out our best leather pants and chest hairs. Or maybe we’ll leave that up to Tom.

* Photo Credit: itzpapaloti, and his mom.

POSTED BY Electric Pulp Mar 12, 2008

narcissist wednesday

mk

wendy

m2

max

mitch

emily

george

tanya

nic

stefan

aaron

angie

POSTED BY Electric Pulp Mar 10, 2008

Redbeard gonna be a daddy!

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POSTED BY Electric Pulp Feb 05, 2008

Oops

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Oh yeah, and you too, Nic.

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POSTED BY Electric Pulp Jan 29, 2008

The Sun Dance

We’ve been working with the Sundance Institute to produce a new community site aimed at connecting independent documentary and human rights. The subject matter is extremely compelling, and the organization behind the effort is one we’re very proud to be working with.

This past week, we had a chance to experience the energy around the project firsthand at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as we snuck away from the office for a few days to help announce the launch of Docsource.

The new site includes discussion areas, film and artist profiles, video clips, and multi-user blogs authored by filmmakers and representatives from the Documentary Film Program (DFP). And that’s just the start. The site will continue to grow over the coming weeks and beyond.

The festival

Snow has kind of jumped the shark in my book, but the festival was incredible. The films we took in were great, the filmmakers we got to meet to were wildly interesting, and a few of us (them) actually got in to see U2-3D. The whole experience was well worth the planes, trains and automobiles effort it took to get out there (all of us were plagued by United “mechanical difficulties.”)

If you’re at all interested, most of us had cameras with us.

No pics of the Airbag guys (we’ll catch you at SXSW), but there’s some good stuff in there. A few of Stefan’s shots even hit the flickr blog.

More updates soon - we’re going Gattaca with the site launches.

Next time you find yourself staring at an ugly block of HTML-ish text, copied from the source of an email message, full of strange “=3D” and trailing “=” characters, take heart. The nastiness you’re seeing is called quoted-printable format, and it’s how email keeps lines to a short enough length to be widely compatible with all manner of email servers.

Installation
Download this file, double-click it, and TextMate should do the rest. You’ll now have a command in your Text bundle that you can use to undo the quoted-printable encoding.

It changes this:

<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D”text/html; charset=3Dutf-8″>
<META content=3D”MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199″ name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style=3D”MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma”>
<DIV>Good afternoon,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Please see the following information from Company.  Please =
let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Bobby=
<BR>12/18/07 10:18 AM >>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>

To this:

<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″>
<META content=”MSHTML 6.00.2900.3199″ name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY style=”MARGIN: 4px 4px 1px; FONT: 10pt Tahoma”>
<DIV>Good afternoon,</DIV>
<DIV><BR>Please see the following information from Company.  Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.<BR><BR>Thanks,<BR>Bobby<BR>12/18/07 10:18 AM >>><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>

Caveat - this command only removes the quoted-printable formatting, don’t expect it to work any magic to make the actual HTML standards compliant.

Enjoy!

Download the quoted-printable decoder TextMate command

POSTED BY stefan Nov 02, 2007

Ethan Kramez.

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Congratulations to Mitch and Heather Kramer, on the birth of their new baby boy, Ethan. We don’t have a lot of details yet (he’s pretty fresh), but we do have Mitch’s photostream to keep an eye on.

Cute kid.

POSTED BY aaron Oct 29, 2007

Entrepreneur Magazine interviews Guy Kawasaki

Entrepreneur.com has a great interview with Guy K on his motivations behind truemors. No need to retell, but here’s a random excerpt:

There are four tips here: 1) Make friends [with] vendors before you need them, 2) engage a firm that made a similar product, 3) check references after it’s too late, and 4) work with people from the Midwest [Electric Pulp is in South Dakota; PDG is in Oklahoma].