MEDIA COMMENTARY, MUSINGS, & GENERAL CRANKINESS
Posted in Advertising, General Crankiness on Mar 15th, 2011
The ideas that were actually selling here at SxSW were the ones that were actually sold – by a fantastic speaker. Now I agree, some ideas are so great they don’t need to be sold. For example, they day they discover a cure for cancer? They won’t need an ad agency. They can take out [...]
Posted in Advertising, Social Media, digital on Mar 13th, 2011
I want you to read something my old friend, Jelly Helm, posted in his blog back in June of ‘09. He’d attended a conference and had this observation: “Also interesting to me about the conference is the role technology and Attention Deficit Disorder play. Everyone tweeting and multitasking and blogging. Does it add more value [...]
Posted in Commentary, digital on Mar 12th, 2011
On the first day of SXSW Interactive I heard a speech by Ray Kurzweil from Mind Grub. Mr. Kurzweil proposed that in the year 2049 the world’s computer network will become so stinking smart it’ll turn into a “Singularity.” Though the word’s borrowed from astronomy, here it refers to the day when the raw power [...]
Posted in Advertising, Social Media, digital on Apr 7th, 2010
I was born in the year 1954 when stamps were three cents. If you thought, “Wow, three cents??” you’re a digital immigrant like me. You’re a digital native if you thought, “What are stamps?” Unfortunately, there is a third group: digital rejectors — you’ve met them. The eye-rollers; the shoulder-shruggers; the print and TV addicts [...]
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