Archives for the 'Marketing' Category
The Decline of Passive Knowledge
I enjoy the podcast This Week in Media (or TWIM, which sounds somehow R-rated), hosted by Daisy Whitney. One particular comment in the latest episode (I think it was by Alex Lindsay of Pixel Corps) provoked my interest. Alex mentioned that he and his wife do not watch broadcast television, preferring Video on Demand, downloads [...]
Local matters: is an impulse worth $10?
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Yesterday, wandering through CD Trader here in the San Fernando Valley, I spotted an unpriced copy of the first season of Veronica Mars, of which I’d only seen half. I took it to the front desk and learned the price was $29.99. “It’s a used price, but the set [...]
Breakthrough keynoter Nolan Bushnell interviewed on Dishymix!
I’m delighted to share with you that my friend Susan Bratton just posted her interview with Breakthrough keynote speaker Nolan Bushnell (the visionary behind Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, uWink and others businesses) on her Dishymix site. The interview is entitled “20 Start Ups Later, on Chemical Engines, Existentialism and ‘My Cave’”– you can learn more [...]
Tough Luck, NYPost.com… & Revisiting “Bush or Chimp”
Are advertisers and readers online and off zooming away from The New York Post and www.nypost.com because of the kerfluffle over an editorial cartoon that stupidly (in so many ways) compared President Obama to a chimpanzee? Certainly, that’s the worry: after the Reverend Al Sharpton — smelling blood and never able to stop swimming — [...]
Uh-oh: “Add-Art” Firefox plugin doesn’t add art but effortlessly removes ads
[Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] A Facebook friend who consults in th industry (translation, he really ought to know better) just crowed about adding “Add-Art,” a free Firefox plugin that purports to replace display advertisements on major online publishers with images of contemporary art. Curious, I downloaded and installed the plugin, which reminds me [...]
