Last Saturday, I and about 70 other folks spent the day in a Jiffy Lube turned home turned event venue off Greenville Avenue talking about “ideas worth spreading” related to education. The brainchild of Jack Vroom (proprietor of said home), TEDxRadEd pushed the concept of the independently organized TED event to a new level. Most [...]
A political advertising primer
Given my proclivities, it’s strange I don’t make it to DFW Interactive Marketing Association meetings more often — however, it tends to be a very agency-heavy crowd, and thusfar, that hasn’t really been my world. (I appear to be the only attendee who Tweeted anything about the talk. Discuss…) But today I was thrilled I [...]
How not to get me into your beta
First, a caveat: I’m not doing this to pick on Wavii. They are no different from myriad other web companies who like to run extra vowels and consonants together. I’m sure they are magnificent people whose dogs love them. However, they have the misfortune of having hit my email box at a moment when I [...]
Why all media will be New Media in 2012
Below is my presentation to the DFW WordPress Meetup Group this weekend. Slideshare is still jacked up in the way it renders notes, so I’m publishing my slide notes below. It might be easiest to open a duplicate window if you want to synch note to slide. Also, sorry for the blank slides after the [...]
A Modest Proposal on Freedom of Speech
There are a couple interesting tests of our National love of Freedom of Speech on my radar screen this week. They’re remarkably similar, but my reaction to them is viscerally different, so I thought them worth comparing: First, there’s the tale of a professor at a University of Wisconsin outpost who got called down for [...]
New feature: Today's news, via Spotify
If you follow me on any of the various Interweb medias, you know that I am thrilled, amazed by, in love with, excited about and generally mesmerized by Spotify. At first brush it’s a music player and streaming service that, with a premium membership, puts the bulk of even my 50,000 tracks in reach of my mobile [...]
I think Apple's making a big play for the business market
While there’s all sorts of chatter about how Apple is (or isn’t) extending its reach in the consumer electronics space with its shiny new OS and a slew of rumored new i-devices, I think there’s an at least equally strong strategy in play to become a much bigger player in the business space. As someone [...]
I've got the magic power of the music in me
I passed a personal musical milestone this weekend, which inspires me to rhapsodize a bit about the importance of music, particularly my music library, to me. Yesterday, I added the 50,000th track to my library: “No Expectations” by Tom T Hall and Earl Scruggs, from the album The Storyteller and the Banjo Man. I added [...]
Song of the Moment: "Everybody Needs Love"
It’s been a long time since a tune got this deep into my blood. From the Drive-By Truckers‘ latest full-length, Go Go Boots, “Everybody Needs Love” is a cover of a song by Muscle Shoals session man and songwriter Eddie Hinton. (DBT frontman Patterson Hood is the son of one of Hinton’s fellow Shoal-ers.) It’s [...]