Tag Archives: media

Advertising approaches

Posted on October 30, 2010 by

I recently watched the PBS documentary, art and copy. it’s a feature about advertising focusing mostly on the big agencies and agency personalities. absolutely fascinating. partly because these are big personalities but mostly because the campaigns featured are ones almost … Continue reading →

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NYC Mosque Hate Speech and the Media

Posted on August 25, 2010 by

This video is a great example of how the talking heads stir up the problems they are trying to accuse everyone else of creating. The question is… can the media do anything that keeps an audience that isn’t “a broad … Continue reading →

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Software and Media Company Formula for Keeping It Real

Posted on December 10, 2009 by

I find simple equations sometimes help frame an opportunity. In the case of software and media companies I have a very basic formula to gauge an opportunity that goes something like this… M = Maximum possible number of users (consumers … Continue reading →

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Video Game Violence Evolving Dangerously

Posted on July 1, 2009 by

Read a great piece today (which I found on Slashdot…) on the state of violence in video games.  It’s remarkable in that it’s author is a life long gamer (like myself) and he starts to drop some value anchors. If … Continue reading →

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Media Created News

Posted on June 16, 2009 by

A nice example of how the 24/7 “news” cycle forces the media to generate news to fill in the blog posts and airwaves. Media personnel far outnumber the David Letterman protestors. Pretty hilarious picture.  Not so hilarious when this stuff … Continue reading →

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A Biological-Like Economy?

Posted on May 4, 2009 by

From a recent essay by NN Taleb: Then we will see an economic life closer to our biological environment: smaller companies, richer ecology, no leverage. A world in which entrepreneurs, not bankers, take the risks and companies are born and … Continue reading →

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Media and Tech Strategies in 2009

Posted on January 21, 2009 by

There’s something telling (to me at least) in IBM’s earnings report.  CNBC gives us this brief insight: Revenue in services, IBM’s largest business segment, dropped 4 percent, but IBM was able to ink $17.2 billion in new services contracts. That … Continue reading →

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Santa, Magical Thinking, Education trump Consequences

Posted on December 17, 2008 by

So, in a moment only Tony Robbins could love, I was doing my early morning stretches when my wife read the following: Few things could be more dangerous than letting your children fall into the trap of believing what they … Continue reading →

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Pseudo-Scientists ask: Is digital media rewiring our brains?

Posted on December 4, 2008 by

Actually this is a provocative title to get parents and teachers to read online crap. Kinda ironical, don’t you think… it is supposed to sound like concerns from worried parents. One brain scientist at UCLA, Gary Small, a psychiatrist, argues … Continue reading →

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Is that racism I see coming? Set your phasers to ‘stun’

Posted on November 11, 2008 by

We are about to go into a “phase” as my mother used to refer to my dependence on a specific set of terms, ideas or behavior. That phase is going to be around for awhile and it’s going to drive … Continue reading →

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