I'm super flattered that the increasingly popular shopcasting site, This Next has named me as their first "User of The Week".
A new weekly component to their blog, I'm the first to get the honor.
If you don't know about This Next (www.thisnext.com) by now, you should.
As explained on their own site:-------------------------------------------------
ThisNext is a shopcasting network where people can discover, recommend and share products and services they love.
In the real world, we rely on the people around us to sort out what we should buy. Brand marketing hype is too loud, too confusing. Tech specs are too complicated, confounding and time consuming to sort through. Our site is a way to answer online a question we ask those around us every day, “What do you use?”
Buying things that are better suited to our individual lifestyles makes life better. We want to help people live the good life, whatever that means to them.
The ThisNext Blog is a place where we identify bloggers and trends whose work aligns with our goal of helping communities unite, express who they are and find products that will help them live more happily and easily.
Our blog will also cover shopcasting on ThisNext. Curious about what’s being picked, who’s picking it and why? Want to know why we’re doing something (or why we aren’t doing something)?
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I actually found out about thisnext.com before it was up and running from a friend of mine who was in contact with one of the founders, Craig Ogg. I have since Craig as well as CEO Gordon Gould, the other founder. Terrific, personable visionaries. I have also had the great fortune to meet some other members of their team, including their fabu PR Diva, Nicole.
Their bloggers and staff are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.
Above: the hardworking team of This Next
They have received impressive press you can view by clicking here.
The name for my blog actually stemmed from my first list of products for This Next.
"If It's Hip, It's Here" was the first thing that came to mind once I started posting objects, art and services that I felt were worth sharing.
Since then, I have created many 'lists' of cool and hip products on This Next.
16 lists, to be exact.
Lists that range from things like "Shop or I'll Shoot: Gun Shaped Stuff" to "Put That Down, That's My Grandma; Modern Cremation Urns" and lists that are really useful like my "Fancy Friggen Flooring and Radical Rugs" list and my The Dish on Dishes list
Some of which have received press from other hot sites (like www.notcot.org) and many of which I've covered in my own blog.
above: My Gun Shaped stuff as seen on NOTCOT.org
I add to the lists almost daily, so if you need to know the latest and greatest things with skulls or aquariums that rock, links to all the lists can be found at the right in my side bar.
As of today, here are my personal stats on this next:
So, perhaps the above is actual 'proof' that I am a trendsetter, no? Okay, well then at least I'm someone who spends waaaay too much time on the web. At least I've done all the "searching for what's hip" legwork for you.....