Musicians and hunters as artisans
Metaphors …all of this was difficult, amazing, perplexing, astonishing—but so was the laying of the railroads and the sending of telegraph signals across the ocean. [Edit] From the first, and in no...
View ArticleI had a chat with Engadget
More correctly I had a chat with Brian Heater when he was here in Portland on some kind of mission for Boing Boing and Engadget. One was this podcast, the other this video interview, titled Peripheral...
View ArticleThe internet is not destroying all creativity
We never read redux I wrote here more than a year ago about my belief that a certain subset of online readers simply skims articles in online public forums. They search for the glowing ember-phrase...
View ArticleEverything becomes magical again: A year in letters
Miles Davis: “I’ll play first, and I might tell you about it later. Maybe.” Another year 2013 began with a loose idea that I managed to actually build upon, one that settled in by the end of the first...
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Community managers and musicians need to consider complexity theory
Image: Mynabirds at Pickathon. Credit: Me This essay was first posted in the LinkedIn Influencer forum. I have just begun to write for Linkedin and I’ve found that given the community that’s gathered...
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Justin Bieber and what is news
Image: Miami Dade County Jail, via Associated Press At some point, Twitter and the rest of social media became less about wanting to share the news and more about wanting to be the news. Take Justin...
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Ezra Klein on Vox Media
There are many lessons here for how journalists and news operations function in an era of “always on.” It’s an understanding of how the web has no limits compared to the constraints of print...
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A Marketer’s Guide to Social on the Second Screen
The new Golden Age of TV programming combined with the social TV trend has presented a marketing windfall for some brands, like Oreo and Old Spice. For others, like McDonald’s, it’s been at times an...
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Yes, John Oliver, We Are Stupid Fucking Idiots
To the highly valued employees of NORTH and our cherished creative and strategic partners: As you probably know, one of the tv spots we created as part of last year’s campaign to drive enrollment in...
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Your online video ad will not be seen
[Image: GForces] Sorry! “[...] it is starting to dawn on marketers that the online video ad system has a few booby traps. Let’s leave aside the reality that many consumers feel bombarded by video ads...
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