Archives for May 2007
Thinking Blogger Award to Dan Greenfield
Ever since Christy Dena tagged me as a thinking blogger award I’ve been mulling over my list, worried that if I named people I know personally that I’d be somehow cheating.
However, Dan Greenfield — an old friend from my EarthLink days — so nicely synthesized the recent combo-platter of a Forrester Report and counterpart Pew [...]
NBC tries to extend “Heroes” through summer
The website Comic Book Resources reported yesterday that NBC.com will launch “Inside Heroes” on May 21 to try to keep interest in the series alive during the long summer hiatus. That same day, character profiles will also launch on the site. AND, there’s an ongoing comic book extension of the story.
This looks good, and I’ll [...]
Yahoo! makes another significant play for social media
Kudos to Fred Stutzman’s “Unit Structures” blog for picking up a CNET thread about a big hire at Yahoo! Duncan Watts.
(This is not to mention the simultaneous hire of economist R. Preston McAfee, but for the purposes of this blog it’s the Watts hire that is interesting.)
Along with books like Barabasi’s “Linked,” Tapscott [...]
Long interview with IAB’s Randall Rothenberg at iMedia
Randy Rothenberg is a smart guy, a deep thinker on advertising, and a lot of fun to interview… particularly as he BOTH gives long and detailed answers AND takes pot shots at the questions along the way. That’s what comes from interviewing a guy who was himself a journalist for a long time at both [...]
iTunes has pissed me off
Late at night a few days back Kathi and I caught the last few minutes of “The Break Up” (with Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn) on cable and liked it enough not to click away. Why this click was marketed as a COMEDY is beyond me, but that’s beside the point of this post.
The [...]
