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Summer Migration

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 21:13:03 -0700

For a variety of reasons that are explored more thoroughly in the very first post there, I have...

Missed Space

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:26:38 -0700

Missed Space: My friend Mandheep recently shared this link with me via his blog. My reaction was...

Follow-up To My Posting of July 23rd...

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 00:01:00 -0700

Follow-up To My Posting of July 23rd...: Secretary Chu is gaining a cult following…and the...

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com

Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:20:00 -0700

A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com: For the longest time, I’ve...

White Roofs; White Pavements If it costs the same, and then...

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:47:00 -0700

White Roofs; White Pavements

If it costs the same, and then saves you money, to boot, what is the argument AGAINST this?

I say this should be mandated on new construction in regions 5 thru 9, and I defy anyone to cry “suppression of freedoms”, when the only freedoms they are losing are:

the freedom to lose their own money
the freedom to waste energy
the freedom to harm the environment
the freedom to remain part of the problem, as opposed to a possible part of the solution

Wedding Entrance Let us all pray…that we remember what it...

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:15:04 -0700

Wedding Entrance

Let us all pray…that we remember what it felt like on that first day together with our loved one, and celebrate the life we live, instead of preparing for the one we imagine.

(and if you’re not married, don’t think this video doesn’t apply to you: that’s you laughing in the wedding party, surrounded by all your friends, and celebrating just as much - if not more)

Lewis Black tries to parse the ongoing debate on universal...

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:42:04 -0700

Lewis Black tries to parse the ongoing debate on universal healthcare…

Obsession Jeff Bezos explains his Amazon ethos, and clarifies...

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 14:10:31 -0700

Obsession

Jeff Bezos explains his Amazon ethos, and clarifies the reasons behind today’s Zappos acquisition.

Total Eclipse About 1:30 into the video, things get...

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 13:56:08 -0700

Total Eclipse

About 1:30 into the video, things get interesting…unless, of course, you speak japanese, in which csae it may all be interesting!

Ode To Joy Redux …um…study break…

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:20:06 -0700

Ode To Joy Redux

…um…study break…

If Frank Gehry and Jonathan Ive had a baby, and it was a...

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:36:00 -0700

If Frank Gehry and Jonathan Ive had a baby, and it was a car…

The only concern I have is that the engine shown seems to be a powerful yet conventional V12 piston engine. Where’s the hydrogen fuel cell option or, better yet, a madly creative fuel concept in keeping with the rest of the car’s advanced theory?

(thanks to Brick R. for the link)

Walter Cronkite - R.I.P.

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:24:09 -0700

Walter Cronkite - R.I.P.

Finally, someone manages to make these confirmation hearings...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:12:35 -0700

Finally, someone manages to make these confirmation hearings mildly interesting…

Announcing a new type of “Courtney Love”. This...

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:32:00 -0700

Announcing a new type of “Courtney Love”.

This Representative is going to be riding a wave of big love on the web in the next week. It remains to be seen what his peers do to join him on that wave…

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:57:00 -0700

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose…

GE: Smart grid yields net-zero energy home

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:58:37 -0700

GE: Smart grid yields net-zero energy home: This is exciting! Follows on from my earlier post on...

You Must Be Taking The Piss!..

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:31:45 -0700

You Must Be Taking The Piss!..: Somebody has more time on their hands than imaginable…

Expialidocious Amazing what you can do with a sine wave bass, a...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:29:33 -0700

Expialidocious

Amazing what you can do with a sine wave bass, a few custom drum sequences, and sounds recorded from the Disney film ‘Mary Poppins’…

Arguably a more compelling 21st Century trailer for the film!

FREE PINT OF ICE CREAM

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:38:08 -0700

FREE PINT OF ICE CREAM: See? This is what I mean by smart. Don’t just mail out a blind...

This is a Commercial… Consumers today are neither...

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:19:00 -0700

This is a Commercial…

Consumers today are neither interested in nor prepared to be “subjected” to market offerings. They want to be engaged in a dialogue of mutual discovery. If they are going to watch an ad, they want to feel that they are witnessing an intelligent thought process in action, one which they may explore further upon completion of the spot. Even if the advertisement is “silly” it must be brilliantly so. This new generation of consumers is more socially interconnected, less interdependent; more culturally discursive, less patient; more committed, less loyal.

Smart ad agencies are abandoning network TV in the face of DVRs and Hulu, as they wonder how best to maintain a connection with their client’s prospective targets…

The smart courses of action are not hidden or obscure, but conventional media has always been slow to respond to trends. This “Aircraft carrier” approach has served them somewhat well, as media and consumer trends more often than not revealed themselves to be short-lived fads. However, some trends are both inescapable and irreversable, and the media platform/channel paradigm shift is indisputable. The modes of content distribution have changed, and the language used to connect to consumerrs is changing.

Who will successfully embark on this new commercial voyage, and who will miss the boat? It used to be that a media giant could buy emerging trends up, but I believe this time the giants of old will find they have been replaced by giants of at least comparable, if not greater size…