November 2009
5 posts
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October 2009
3 posts
5 tags
Blueprint III $4.99 on imeem. That’s...
6 tags
June 2009
5 posts
“Media Fast”, an audio version hastily...
Media Fast
Last weekend I decided to fast, to abstain from, media - all media - for a week. A funny thing happened, namely, my wife an artist and teacher knows media better than I do, a media professional.
In my first day of the fast I was home all day with my son, it was too quite and I was fasting from media - which obviously means no TV. So I turned the radio on to NPR without hesitating, not even...
fred-wilson:
Rave On (Buddy Holly cover) - M...
Twitter's 90/10 Rule
After examining my own Twitter account (721 days old) this holds true - 90% of tweets are from 13% of people I follow. More painful is that 70% of tweets are contributed by 4% of my followers. And if you break that 70% down, 36% are from 3 automated sources (news sources) and the other 34% is by one human who has tweeted over 200 times in the past 8 days. I am unfollowing that 4% now.
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May 2009
1 post
“Our new technologies do not retire our old responsibilities.”
– Paul Starr, The New Republic, “Goodbye to the Age of Newspaper (Hello to a New Era of Corruption)”
April 2009
4 posts
WatchI’m a big fan of Vimeo right now so recently switched me family video sharing to them from YouTube. Just a cleaner site, better quality video and easier to use.
This is a video of my son Eli and I getting ready for bed when he was 5-6 months old.
WatchPhilips spot shot for cinema promoting new 21:9 LCD TV. Watch in full screen
Agency: Tribal DDB Amsterdam
Production: Stink Digital London
Director: Adam Berg
VFX: Redrum, Stockholm
Not just a newspaper dilemma.
Must read: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
Further reading: Rosen’s Flying Seminar In The Future of News
March 2009
6 posts
“We’re all living in and moving through an increasingly dense data cloud...”
– Simon Dumenco Advertising Age, “News Delivery Needs Mobile Optimization, Not Hearst Hardware”
Jinx! 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8...
I enjoyed reading what Freddie Laker had to write in today’s Digital Next. It reflected much of what I’ve been saying [to myself on this sorry excuse for a blog] over the past year here and here.
However I’m not sure I completely agree with everything he had to say about how this approach will influence the future of website strategy, information architecture, usability and...
Jonathan Jarvis » Crisis of Credit Visualized →
This is the most elegant explanation, visual or otherwise, I’ve found that makes sense of our current global financial situation.
What’s just as, if not more, interesting than the Credit Crisis video is the thesis behind the project:
“The Crisis of Credit Visualized distills the economic crisis into a short and simple story by giving it form. It is also argues that...
#skittles & modernista!
What do Skittles candy and the ad agency Modernista! have in common? They’re both letting “the cloud” act as their website as opposed to creating their own site. Why do all the work when hundreds/thousands/millions are doing it for you?
—> Skittles
—> Modernista!
I wrote a love/hate post a while ago about Modernista!s approach, now about a year later...
February 2009
6 posts
TinyChat.com →
Stupidly simple. Like it.
Overlay.TV →
Public beta launched in 2008… just now hearing about it.
Fun idea. Something that content providers have been talking about for years, but not much has come of it at a mass scale (i.e. cable providers)… love the idea of someone saying, “Screw it. Why are we waiting for Comcast to roll this out… let’s let anyone do it and share it.”
I’m not suggesting...
“For years now, without anyone really noticing, the PC industry has functioned...”
– WIRED-17.03, “The Netbook Effect: How Cheap Little Laptops Hit the Big Time”
Apple MacBook Mini netbook concept →
by designer Isamu Sanada
2 Marketing Trends in 09 →
This video of Accenture’s Greg Douglass points out two simple but smart trends to look for in ‘09 from marketers:
(1) Aspirational Marketing
(2) Added-Value Marketing
You could also call the latter “Apple Marketing” - it’s what they’ve been doing for years by making the hardware and software together in the same house so that all of their devices (and the...
January 2009
3 posts
EFFing A!: EFF Questions YouTube Clips On White... →
I’ve never heard of EFF before but they didn’t leave a good first impression on me this morning after reading this article. Absurd that this is what they want to spend their time doing - writing tattle-tale letters to the government accusing them of not adhering to their own ill-informed, out-dated standards.
I repeat: Let’s not discourage our government from moving into...
Obama's Smart Grid →
I have no idea here… just a thought at the absurdity of our federal and state governments not having more technological wherewithal.
Overhauling our electrical grid is a much needed undertaking from what I know (which is little) and should help move us from the 20th to 21st century (a decade late). That coupled with Obama’s recently announced creation of a new post in his...
IE 8 →
Here’s a quote: “The role of the browser has become more and more important.”
Here’s a thought: No duh.
Here’s an idea: If cloud computing is where we’re headed and it clearly looks like that’s the case. Then what do we need a “desktop” for? Shouldn’t a computer’s “screen” or “desktop” be the browser? ...
December 2008
4 posts
“A number of researchers now argue that talent means nothing like what we think...”
– Why talent is overrated
November 2008
1 post
Joe The Plumber's Landing Page →
Simple idea from Fred Wilson.
September 2008
4 posts
2 tags
“style is the outside of content”
– Jean-Luc Godard
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“In ten years, we [Google] believe that online video broadcasting will be the...”
– Chad Hurley, CEO and Co-Founder, YouTube
The future of online video →
As a follow up to a rant I wrote on lazy online strategy which permiates most advertiser’s use of online video (among other things), here’s an interesting, concise piece over on Google’s blog about the future of online video.
August 2008
3 posts
Seth's Blog: More vs. enough →
Reminds me of the difference Apple’s been exploiting for years between them and Microsoft. Microsoft software may look better on paper with so many bells/whistles (more templates, more fonts, etc.) yet they’ve always failed at basic hygiene (i.e. programs crashing constantly, impossible techno babble error messages, poor UI, etc.). Apple delivers a better experience and generally...
1,000 is the new 1,000,000 (preface)
Preface to the preface: Several months ago I read Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 true fans post and loved the concept. I’ve also taken the time recently to actually read The Long Tail, as opposed to reading about it and what everyone else has to say about it for the last 3-4 years. So it’s been that which I’ve most recently immersed myself in which lead me to the idea of this...
My (Smoked) Beef with Marketing Research
Jonathan Salem Baskin of dimbulb has a great post ripping JC Penney’s Dork Dodge game. Shame on JC Penney’s for stealing this absurd idea… yet their marketing dept and agency likely will keep their jobs because there’s data and research galore for them to back themselves showing that women are the #1 online gamers. So when their boss and boss’s boss starting asking...
July 2008
3 posts
The Currency of Ideas is Monopoly Money
Ideas hold no value. Only ideas acted upon. The person who sees something and says to you disappointed, arrogantly, “That was myidea!” Is the same person who walks through MoMA and scoffs, “I could do that.”
My response to those people, and indeed I am one of them:
Why didn’t you?
There is no use for idea people in a web-based society where real trade skills are...
Have You Earned the Right to be Heard?
Seth Godin - who at times can be long on inspiration short on application – has a short and stark reminder to media professionals today on his blog, “The tragic mistake of demographics and media planning is that they overlook the single most important issue: is the person you’re talking to ready to listen?”
Which is good reminder and at the same time, it isn’t.
Good…
…if...
Like Vacation Days, Digital Creative Strategy...
“It’s as simple as this. You don’t put a logo in
first frame of TV so you shouldn’t in online.”
This was a comment @schmogel heard from someone likely grinding up next to her on the packed, hot elevator ride up to the 32nd floor at one of the nation’s largest, most reputable ad agencies. It was Twittered almost immediately after she heard it with a sarcastic note before it...
June 2008
1 post
May 2008
7 posts
