"Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has got there first, and is waiting for it." Terry Pratchett
"I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained." Walt Disney
"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk." Doug Larson
Today's image: Looking Downtown by James Neeley. Amazing. Thank you for sharing.
As I was saying...
The press of daily affairs has been such that there has simply been no time for blogging.
Please accept my apologies and my sincere thanks. Your emails and other contact have been encouraging. The conjecture, priceless (e.g., Maybe he's dead?). In answer to many, let me say all here is exceptionally good, never better.
On with the show.
Stuff the cool kids are talking about: In the spirit of Madtown hero Dave Winer (we locals claim he is only taking a really long extended holiday in Berkeley) let me provide some jumps. To connect the dots here, it was Dave who famously said "People come back to places that send them away."
Flogos - Promotion and NTR magic.
Michael Rosenblum - You need to be reading this guy. He's only reinventing video. One of the last big things he invented was for Al Gore, Current. Michael is brilliant and playing at the top of his game. Check out the writing and videos on his blog. Repeat, daily.
Yahoo! Jerry Yang stepping down creates one of the biggest potential game-changing moments in the online world. The big two could become the big three in the USA. The early buzz and Vegas odds say News Corp prexy Peter Chernin would be the ideal successor. As ever, Kara Swisher has the story covered, including review of the suspects, via ATD here.
Moms v Motrin: Over the weekend we witnessed an interesting real-time experiment in social media. Moms took on Big Pharma using Twitter, YouTube, blogs, other SM tools. Motrin never had a chance, the moms won. It's an object lesson. Grammer Girl offers a good overview, What People Forget About Twitter here. How Twittering Critics Brought Down Motrin Mom Campaign by Michael Learmonth and Rupal Parekh via AdAge here. Related videos, check other blog posts via BuzzFeed. #motrinmoms tag on Twitter search here. Here's proof positive the Motrin meme has achieved escape velocity, the parody has begun. Check out this video mashup, Getting a boob job seems to be in fashion, via YouTube here. Finally, what's your Twitter strategy?
Philly fresh: Mel Taylor, who makes his living by helping media create local online revenues, checks in to advise the new site devoted to live music and local bands is alive in beta. Check it out here. Congrats and cheers to Mel and all involved. Are you reading Mel's blog? Jump on over here.
My bookmarks - Not sure if you are aware but in the left column is my running collection of bookmarks (my del. icio. us). These are items I'm reading, sharing with clients and friends. Two stand outs this early morning: Steve Gillmor's timely piece on Microcasting merits your attention. Timesman David Carr knocks the cover clean off the ball with his writing on dead tree guys firing top talent. A very relevant and disturbing trend in media.
Back with more tomorrow. Thanks, appreciate you stopping by.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Monday, March 24, 2008
"Never express yourself more clearly, than you are able to think." Niels Bohr
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." William James
"Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men." David Ogilvy
Today's image: The great below by Violator 3. Interesting shot. Thank you for sharing.
Official: A short blast of afternoon snow yesterday and now Madison is over 100 inches of precip this season. Ok, I'm over it, no more Ice Station Zebra.
Next FCC Chair: Names in the (very) early bidding include Julius Genachowski (Obama), Susan Ness (Clinton) and Pablo Chavez (McCain). These w/out regard to those now working at the Portals.
More fun with Twitter: Quotably - Follow Twitter Conversations. (FD - I'm hooked on FriendFeed)
It's the attention, stupid: Is it really the "saddest, stupidest sentence" ever? You decide.
First tribe of wireless saves the day, again. So you're in a cab heading into the city from LGA when traffic stops. Where does your driver get the 411 needed to navigate? Text? Cell? On board nav? Nope. 1010 WINS, wins the day.
400-year death spiral continues...
Rick Edmonds, a business analyst at the Poynter Institute and one of the authors of a new report, “State of the News Media 2008,” from the Project for Excellence in Journalism, thinks this year will be a doozy.
“You already were looking at more of the same, which has not been good, and now with the potential of a recession, you are looking at the possibility of double-digit declines in earnings and revenues,” he said. “This is a year when some of the newer players may be hard-pressed to pay the bankers.”
The entire article, Newspapers' Owners Turn Grim, by Timesman David Carr here
Inside baseball: The winner of the Sun-Times' video contest about Wrigley Field naming rights is a Chicago Tribune intern. Video here.
Congrats & cheers: Larry Lessig launches the Change Congress movement. Check out Larry's slide show here. Jeff Sellinger promoted to EVP & GM at CBS Mobile. Media maven and uber-mensch Brad Saul gets well deserved recognition via Erica Farber's Publisher's Profile. New Hal Riney site (mad cool).
Jack Armstrong an American original and broadcasting legend has passed.
Doris Kearns Goodwin on the Tim Russert show (MSNBC) put forth her list...
Diverse perspectives
Loyalty
Admit mistakes
Manage emotions
Define goals
Relax