Abraham Linkoln: 19 Of This Week’s Best Links

What you are about to read is an assortment of links that the VaynerMedia team found this week – some are tech, some are sports, some are funny, some are random, but all of the links are interesting… or so we think!

Gary Vaynerchuk: New arrivals at Shepherds Junior School. Maybe the best feeling of my professional career.

AJ Vaynerchuk: Study Shows Memories May Be Enhanced by Sleep. I’m personally fascinated by sleep and this article shows you an interesting aspect of the world when our eyes are closed.

David Zhang: The Rings of Earth. Beautiful 3D animation showing what it would be like if Earth had Saturn’s rings – love the images of how it’d be perceived from different parts of the world. HQ it!

Sam Taggart: BCS Enters Twitter. Is the BCS a brand that should not be on Twitter?

Neil Sarkar: The Eight Best Questions We Got While Raising Venture Capital. Worth it for the first question “What’s your deadly sin — you don’t want to be the site that people *should* use, you want to be the site they can’t stop using”, overall these are excellent questions you’ll wish you had asked yourself after an ill-fated venture fails.

Stephanie Bagley: SoAct Wants Twitter to Identify the Users Defaming it. Social media platforms are largely ungoverned and untested in the courts, unlike traditional media. It is important to pay attention as new precedents are set, for example, when Google was sued and forced to reveal the identity of blogger Rosemary Port, who had written about model Liskula Cohen anonymously on ‘Skanks of NYC.’

John Oates: U.S. Sports to Social Media: Show me the Money!. This was a great article explaining the importance of social media in sports.

Caleb Brown: Funky Lunch. Lunch is far too boring, there is no reason to not spice it up.

Matt Sitomer: Sound Spontaneity. Thousands of hours of jazz musicians jamming, chatting, and exploring, a rare window into passion and the creative process from another era.

Leora Israel: Google OS: The End of the Hard Drive?. I want to live in a cloud. Google pwns the world

Mike Boyd: The Greatest Battle In Hip-Hop History. KRS-one (Hip Hop Legend) talks about holding a Rap Battle between 50 Cent vs. Jay-z. This will probably never happen, but it sounds like the greatest event in recent hip hop history!

Joe Whitmarsh: Embracing Lifetime Value. Seth Godin discusses an important issue of companies meeting the needs of their consumers.

Keith Holjencin: Death of a Blog Post. Explores the concept of using customized layouts on a per article basis, and references examples from several designers such as Jason Santa Maria and Gregory Wood.

Tim Werly: Behind the Scoreboard: Inequities of the free-agent ranking system. Interesting piece on baseball free agency.

Sameer Tanakia: Mock Flow: Online Wireframe Tool for Software and Websites For those that lack drawing skills and want to be able to communicate their ideas and layouts to a designer or developer. Mock Flow is a great replacement for hand drawing with a user interface that even the most computer illiterate could navigate. It can even replace PAINT for those of you who are still in the stone age…. you know who you are….

Saeed Jabbar: Typography is the Backbone of Good Web Design. Typography adds an extra touch of feeling to ones content. With the information from Brian’s post I’ve drastically improved Babbaco.

Zak Jacoby: Coke Expedition 206. An awesome social media campaign.

Marcus Krzastek: Attention Deficit Sells 28,000 copies in its First Week. No need to be locked in to major distributor marketing if they’re failing at distribution.

Adam Kopec: Offline Inspiration: How to Find it and Get the Most Out of it. This article reminds us that the best web design inspiration is found off the web, and not in web design galleries or portfolios.