The Futures of Social Media
Important Trends Without Sales Pitches Attached Seem More, Well, Important For those of you who read this blog,...
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The Topography of Social Platforms Can Get You Found And Lost Randall Munroe creates brilliantly funny and insightful illustrations. I don't know him,...
View ArticleAOL & Time Warner Redux?
What Will The Daily Beast And Newsweek Do Differently? The Daily Beast and Newsweek have merged to form "something new" yet I can’t help but think I’ve heard this story before:...
View ArticleFrom Icon To Irrelevant
Why Doesn't Anybody Care About Tiger Woods Anymore? Stop the presses! Tiger Woods is only 7 shots under par at the Des Moines Open. Well, not really. He just muddled through the Australian Masters,...
View ArticleAcademy Awards For Geeks
We Need To Find New Ways To Celebrate True Innovation A hushed silence washes across the room. Guests in glittering gowns and brilliant black tie hold their collective breath as the announcer slowly...
View ArticleSocial Media, Apple
Surefire Topics For Online Traffic Don't Seem To Resolve Anything My latest column in Advertising Age reaffirmed a phenomenon I've seen for a while now: the topic most marketers want to talk about...
View ArticleIs Transparency A Good Thing?
The Latest WikiLeaks Revelations Suggest We Should Be Careful What We Wish For The latest WikiLeaks revelation that much of the American government's secret diplomatic cables read like entries in a...
View ArticleSo Wrong They're Right
Scientists Admit Mistakes And Are More Credible Than Corporations Or Brands NASA and an assorted bevy of astronomers and biologists recently admitted two mistakes of epic proportions: there are...
View ArticleThis Coffeemaker Can't Dance
Is Creative Really At The Core Of Great Advertising? I am digging the new Tassimo Brewbot! It's this innocuous-looking little device that sprouts arms and legs and opens packages of coffee, makes it,...
View ArticleThe Limits of Trust
We Can No Longer Agree On Conclusions, So Perhaps We Need Shared Processes? Anybody who regularly flies in airplanes these days knows there's something up with the weather....
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