Archives for March 2007
Getting off the Crack of IM, or Trying to Anyway…
David Pescovitz over at the overwhelming cornucopia that is Boing Boing links to — and insightfully comments on — a piece from Sunday’s New York Times on The Myth of Multitasking. It resonates in that deep, thrumming twang a big rubber band way for me. What’s it about? Trying to do too many things inhibits [...]
Albert Einstein on Advertising
This week, I’m at iMedia’s 2nd annual Breakthrough Summit in which we cover the NEW new marketing channels: games, mobile and video. In a panel discussion on new forms of content today, the speakers were arguing back and forth about the right length of a commercial for an online video ad. Is it the traditional [...]
“There are in fact no masses.” Raymond Williams quote.
Looking over my archives, I just ran into this quotation by Raymond Williams. It seems poignant with regard to mass media and culture, and ahead of its time in 1958. “The masses are always the others, whom we don’t know, and can’t know. Yet now, in our kind of society, we see these others regularly, [...]
Short Post: Metaphor, Mediasnacking & Obesity
Two ideas have collided in my head over the past few weeks of frenetic work and business travel, and I want to share them here. The first idea — that there is a discouraging epidemic of obesity and particularly childhood obesity in this country — isn’t new, but a rash of new PSA billboards on [...]
Finally joining the 21st Century… or maybe the late 20th… I bought an iPod
Somehow, for no reason that I can explain other than being cheap and never having made the time, I managed not to buy an iPod until my birthday last month. It came weeks ago and I carried it around with me in my briefcase trying to find a moment to open the box. That didn’t [...]
