Archives for the 'Eventness' Category
Islands of Total Attention
I’m just back from an exciting and exhausting week at ad:tech San Francisco, and I’ve been mulling over the different kinds of value that people can extract from going to conferences like ad:tech and the iMedia Summits.
The worst thing I can do at a conference is check email on my Treo. Yes, there are times [...]
My chat with the Eepybird guys over at iMedia
I had the pleasure of interviewing Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Eepybird (the Diet Coke and Mentos recreate the Bellagio fountain guys) over at iMedia Connection. They’re interesting guys who have a thoughtful take on how businesses can work with artists.
Art in Chunky Bits… “Prom Queen” & “Fledgling”
Grant McCracken, who I like immensely as both a blogger and a person, has written a lot about “chunky culture” and “chunky marketing” as evolutionary replacements for declining mass culture and mass marketing.
Two examples of this have recently hit the web, and both are pretty good.
First, Michael Eisner’s new company, Tornante, is the funding entity [...]
NBC “Heroes” Promo Makes Bid for Appointment TV, Fails
On my commute at around 8:15am this morning one of the local radio stations had a teaser for tonight’s new episode of the NBC series, “Heroes.” The tag line of the teaser was: “Don’t wait to watch and don’t watch alone.”
Here is NBC attempting to short circuit consumers with TiVo — and I suspect the [...]
The Perils of the Pause Button
Note: This is the second of two related posts. #1 was about the brilliant new Alfonso Cuarón film, “Children of Men,” and this one is about the eventness of seeing stories — films, plays, TV shows — with other people.
In an earlier post on this blog, I talked about how the infinite plenitude of On [...]
