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 [...]
Is The Heist the a future for advertising?
Want a glimpse of the future of advertising? If you’ve got an iPhone, a thorough understanding of the new game, The Heist, may change the way you think about media. Now sticking an ad in a game is nothing new — and there are no apparent ads in The Heist. So what’s the biggie? Shell [...]
WFAA's weather WTF
We had a BIG storm last night here in the DFW area. While there were tornadoes and hail damage and some injuries, our area managed to come out fairly well. That said, it was the scariest storm situation I can remember in the last ten years in Dallas. It was the first time we’d ever [...]
Audio: Hip to be Square? How disruptive is the new iPad cash register?
At yesterday’s TechCrunch Disrupt, mobile payments purveyor Square announced a pilot product with two key components: Square Register as a POS replacement for merchants and Square Card Case as a mobile payments wallet for consumers. This is something I’ve been thinking about for a long time — how mobile payments finally fuse online and offline [...]
The value of interlocking services (managing information overload revisited)
One of the all-time most popular posts on this blog was lengthy discussion of the tools I used to manage information overload, circa 2009. Obviously there are lots of new services since then, and hardware like the iPad yielded changes in my workflow. I’ve been meaning to do an updated version of that post, but [...]
The Schieffer Symposium on the News (and my first test of Storify)
I went to yesterday’s Schieffer Symposium on the News at TCU and found myself involuntarily Tweeting. So, I thought I’d see how it looked to cover an event (mostly) by Tweet. After the jump, a Storify embed: