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Overview: Future or Revival? The Future Work Skills 2020 Report seeks to bring into focus critical skills necessary to succeed in the work environment of 2020. Gathering experts in diverse fields such as Education, Technology, Work and Health, the IFTF aggregated data, and applied insights from its own methodology to form this report. This is [...]
When I was a kid my parents took my sister and I to Autoworld in Flint, Michigan. It was supposed to be an amusement park dedicated to educating the world on the importance and innovation of the auto industry. One of the first things visitors saw upon entering the complex was a robot that welcomed [...]
Recently, Tom and I had a discussion about mono vs. stereo sound and why some records might sound better in the former mix than in the latter, more modern composition. After all, stereo sound is all about spatial modeling of sound that puts the listener “in” the mix. It’s the exploitation of an aural trick [...]
It’s a cliché, but it’s true: life is complicated. That becomes all the more true when trying to boil down complex issues into simple, easily communicated and shared messages. Yet, that’s exactly what’s required of good marketing, a point made all the more sharp by the rise of “memes.” Enter: Kony 2012 The last few [...]
There’s an interesting conversation going on over at one of my favorite music communities and both the topic and the related location are near and dear to my heart. A couple of years ago I helped develop the digital and content strategies for an online community called GRAMMY365 that would serve the members of the [...]
Let’s take a moment to consider the many manifestations of Walter Sobchak. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
I love that Jesse Rosten acknowledges right up front that this isn’t necessarily a practical solution or use for iPads. I mean, why must everything be practical? Sometimes innovation just is. The practicality of the invention sometimes comes later, with revisions and refinement. The saying is “Necessity is the mother of invention.” Practicality isn’t mentioned. [...]
A friend and I were recently trying to remember what year it was that we saw President George H.W. Bush in our home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. We knew it was the early 1990s as we were in our late teens or very early 20s. We bantered back and forth (via Instant Message, no [...]
So there’s a lot of chatter out there today about Facebook’s announcement that they’re getting into the email game (sort of). Here’s what we know… If this rolls out as Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions it then we might just say goodbye to email as we know it since he says Facebook believes [...]
We love this sort of stuff. 1.Go to Google Maps 2) Click Get Directions 3) Type Japan as starting point 4) Type China as ending point 5) Go to # 43 on the direction. We’re busting out our wetsuits. Hat tip to Lil’ Kevin TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
