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I know I tend to spend all my rant power on broken media models, but I’ve had reason lately to
Saving the banking industry means saving banks. Saving the auto industry means saving car makers. Saving the free press does
As a new media guy, I suppose it’s heresy to say that I find some of the en vogue (or
I’m usually leery when sales managers recommend reading — it’s typically brainless, feel-good plucky crap designed to motivate the unmotivated. So when our last sales manager pointed me at the Monday Morning Memo by Roy H. Williams, a self-styled “Wizard of Ads,” my eyes almost rolled out of my head.
But week in and week out, Williams’ missives are the most consistently insightful thing I read. He’s a master of human psychology and counter-intuitive wisdom. I generally find myself agreeing with him on some concept or other that hadn’t ocurred to me before: Take for example this week’s study of how most marketing is geared towards extraverts while alienating introverts.
If you become a regular reader, don’t miss the “rabbit hole,” which is an Easter Egg hidden in every issue. Click on the lead photo (and each subsequent one that appears) and you’ll be taken down some other, unrelated road. This week’s, for instance, is a series of thoughts, photos and videos on Audrey Hepburn.
I never thought I’d find a truly literate writer focused on sales, but Roy’s the real deal. You’re cheating yourself if your don’t sign up for his weekly email or subscribe to his podcast.
I know I tend to spend all my rant power on broken media models, but I’ve had reason lately to
Note: I’ve recently become a fan of the blog Stuff Journalists Like, a different twist on the style of blog
Jackson Browne: “Rock Me on the Water” This may well be one of my top ten favorite songs, but I
We’re going to see a lot more of this sort of thing…
1. Tribune coverwrap on issue of AdAge that arrived the same day as their bankruptcy announcement:
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“Sometimes I Wish I Didn’t Care”: Kevn Kinney’s STAR
I’m seeing an unhappy, but perhaps necessary trend in business relationships of late, one that may well be born of
Saving the banking industry means saving banks. Saving the auto industry means saving car makers. Saving the free press does
1,585 days ago, I underwent a strange metamorphosis. I had been in a bit of a funk and was spending a lot of time reading and noodling on a lot of things. On that day I had a couple conversations and read some articles that somehow gelled together late in the day when my mind was idle. In a flash, I knew that I had synthesized something important. Over the next couple days I started writing it all down… Keep Reading
Jackson Browne: “Rock Me on the Water” This may well be one of my top ten favorite songs, but I
I’m usually leery when sales managers recommend reading — it’s typically brainless, feel-good plucky crap designed to motivate the unmotivated.
Bob Dylan: Everything is Broken The car, the pool, the computer, the economy, my nasal passages. Ack. Mahalia Jackson: “If
I’ve written before about how most media folk don’t understand how properly to use text alerts, with CNN as a case-in-point.
Here’s a checklist for breaking news alerts. Fail one and hold your fire: Keep Reading
As the long-predicted mediapocalypse finally takes hold, I find my annoyance level with the deathbed histrionics of many in the
Note: I’ve recently become a fan of the blog Stuff Journalists Like, a different twist on the style of blog
Ever seen something that you so thoroughly knew was game changing that you couldn’t even effectively articulate how? Because the
Whether you’re an Apple fanboy (like me) or a hater, you had to enjoy the skewering delivered by The Simpsons last night. It was some of the sharper satire we’ve seen out of the show in a while. (See video clips after the jump).
But for all the merriment rampant in Apple’s Mac/PC ad campaigns, Steve Jobs isn’t known for his sense of humor on such matters. Especially when the first ad of the first commercial break was for the Macbook… Keep Reading
I have thoughts on the announcements Apple made at it’s annual “Welcome independent developers who want to see how we’re
It appears that when you climb to the top of the mountain of media enlightenment, you’re likely to find a
I’m going to resist the temptation to turn this post into a therapy session over the myriad problems I’ve had
Great piece on 60 Minutes last night about cheating from insiders on online poker sites. What really struck me was that the bulk of the investigative lifting was done by aggrieved gamblers (who also happened to be attorneys). The point is that they piled through tons of documents and spreadsheets to prove the pattern and isolate the likely culprits. And even though the gamblers weren’t so-called unbiased Journalists, 60 Minutes and The Washington Post teamed up to follow up on their research and go ask the bad guys and their de facto accomplices tough questions… Keep Reading
Best idea I’ve seen in a long time.
It appears that when you climb to the top of the mountain of media enlightenment, you’re likely to find a
Ever seen something that you so thoroughly knew was game changing that you couldn’t even effectively articulate how? Because the
Dear sirs: Thank you for the latest complimentary upgrade to your Xbox 360 system firmware. I am certain that it
I’m in my hotel after the day has wrapped at the always-excellent ILM08 and feeling like the guy in the sci-fi film whose calculations indicate the asteroid is about to hit while the rest of the rubes are blissfully ignorant.
I’m shocked its not all over the Interwebs already, so I guess I’ll be the first to say it. More than any other day since their founding, today Google quietly, nearly silently, took an action that will, for better or worse, change the media world… Keep Reading
I’m seeing an unhappy, but perhaps necessary trend in business relationships of late, one that may well be born of
Ever seen something that you so thoroughly knew was game changing that you couldn’t even effectively articulate how? Because the
My computer crapped out today, and in an effort to find a fix I noticed a huge weakness in search
From one of my attorney friends, posted from Facebook with the name changed to protect the honest: “Chelsea” offers a
A couple technical notes re: growing pains on ye olde new blog: I’m aware that the “Stream o’ consciousness” posts
As best as I can tell, this just started today. When I clicked on a link posted by one of