That headline’s got nothing to do with anything, I just have Fleetwood Mac stuck in my head. Which, let’s be clear, is not a Field Notes endorsement of Fleetwood Mac. Though they’re not the worst or anything. They’ve got a few good songs, and they were probably fun to hang out with back in the day. And there’s always the Olde English pre-California Fleetwood Mac, with rad stuff like this.

Anyways, on to the business of getting notebooks into the hands of consumers! (BTW, you’re looking very lovely today, consumer!) We got our first podcast mention from Bill Deys who podcasts from his car, in the dark. That would be totally illegal here in Chicago, but it’s totally cool if you’re in freedom-loving Canada. Bill takes his eyes off the road to show off his new Field Notes, but there doesn’t seem to be much traffic in Canada, so it’s all good. Thanks, Bill!

We also got a shoutout from Shumyla in Memphis. We love you too, Shumyla, even though you didn’t break any traffic laws to hype the F-N.

Thanks to Bill, Shumyla, and the rest of our friends, we’re hanging tight at a respectable just-under-10% in Lifehacker’s Battle of the Designer Notebooks. We will be perfectly happy to settle for 10% of the global memo book market. We’ve got no clue when the contest ends, or what we win when it’s over. Surely something really cool.

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Lifehacker’s Battle of the Designer Notebooks pitches us against some competitors in a popular vote. We’re perfectly comfortable being whomped by a brand that dates back a hundred years* that was recently sold for 60 million euros, but second place would be nice, if you lovely Field Noters don’t mind throwing us a vote.

*or, to be more precise, ” 10 years.

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David Yeiser of Design Intellection won some Field Notes memo books and a Field-Tested Books poster in a Coudal Partners contest, and decided to hold a contest of his own to share his new-found wealth. He asked his readers to send in a photo of a cup of coffee. Yesterday, he announced two winners; Ben Thomas and Jamie Bradway (Jamie’s already using Field Notes to track his annual coffee consumption). Thanks, Ben! We’re almost tempted to send you more notebooks to replace the ones you gave away, but that might just get us all trapped in some sort of infinite kindness loop.

As long as we’ve got the blog engine fired up, Thanks for the link, Clagnut.

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Did we mention our RSS feed is up and at ‘em? Well, it is.

We’ve also finally got our wholesale act together, so if you find yourself controlling any sort of retail establishment, turn a small empty space on your counter into PROFITS! Email Michele for more info. If you’re a consumer of Field Notes Brand products, ask your favorite stationer, newsstand, dime shop, or feed store to drop us a line.

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We don’t speak Russian, but we have a crush on Cyrillic, and we’re pretty sure we know what “Я не записываю это, чтобы помнить потом, я записываю это, чтобы помнить сейчас” means. Thanks, Cleptogirl! (Our Russian fan base has been growing ever since Omanmi.ru wrote about Field Notes back in November.)

More shoutouts from:

• Kyu Hwang outta Vancouver, BC,
• Dylan F. Tweney outta San Mateo, CA,
• Chad Wright outta Leander, TX, and
• Rich 95Total outta St. Louis, MO.

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We dig green prefab housing, and green prefab housing digs us. Maybe we can work out a trade, how many notebooks for this one?

And we’re hot with at least one Brazilian anthropologist, who recommends our “materiais de antropólogo.” So, um, how many notebooks for Caetano Veloso? Apologies to said anthropologist if he’s Portugese, I couldn’t tell for sure.

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First off, we’d like to offer up a gigantic round of hoots and hollers from the West Coast back to the good people at Coudal Partners. Many, many thanks for mobilization on the new Field Notes site. Much excitement is felt.

Bryan has been hard at work coding stuff up and providing some hearty links. Good stuff all around. My sleeves are rolled up on another project as these words go to press. I’m currently neck-deep compiling, filing and juicing up our comprehensive, somewhat-official Field Notes Memo Book gallery.

Over the years I’ve been collecting and hoarding these American treasures in my travels from coast to coast. And now they’ve got a home online. Stay tuned. Piles and piles are on deck, being readied, people.

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The links keep on coming. Thanks for the posts, Samantha Hahn, Josh Spear (”hubbub” is the new “buzz”), Jason Santa Maria, The Daily Saint, and Jason Stimpel. As Draplin would say: “Grand Canyons of appreciation are felt.”

If you’re disappointed this post wasn’t about bratwurst and/or Wisconsin, try this or this. Both are heavily Field-Notes-endorsed.

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Hey, gang. There’s a mini-contest over at Coudal, with Field Notes as a prize.

The buzz from our site launch (and the subsequent Boing Boing post) continues. All weekend, old and new friends emailed us ideas, (one friend showed up at my house with a stack of notebooks she liked) and the blog links continued to roll in, from Positive Space (with some other good sketchbook suggestions), Lambton Book Worm, Magpie and Cake, Not Yellow, Chicken, Sopheava de Lumiere, and 9rules’ “Design Clips.” Thankymuch!

Also, Doane Paper blogged us and ruled (get it? ruled!?) out a partnership, which is understandable. As the lady in the radiator says, “You’ve got your good thing, and I’ve got mine.”

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Hey, Field Notes has an official Myspace page now, because agriculture-inspired memo books need to go on dates, too, am I right? Be our friend, won’t you? (When this post is history, you can always find the link to the left over there.) Thanks!

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