We’re fascinated with celebrities. It’s arguable that we always have been and with the ability to share our fascination and attention with all the other obsessives out there the focus becomes more intense, yet more distributed. Our celebrity psychosis is viral. What’s particularly (peculiarly?) interesting now though is our ability to measure that psychosis. We [...]
This is fascinating for a couple of reasons: It’s a wordless story of innocence, opportunity, talent and youth lost; a moving and disturbing example of how imagery and music alone can convey so much. It’s also a clear and damning example of our obsession with celebrity and how we attach ourselves to their larger-than-life stories [...]
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 [...]
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
“Liking” an article that questions the value of Facebook Likes is Metastential. TweetFacebookLinkedInTumblrStumbleDiggDelicious
I often say that the old advertising paradigm of Interrupt – Repeat is over. While some online advertisers are fighting that for all their worth with pop-over ads and other user annoyances, the facts are that people can opt out of advertising—and they are at increasing rates. But it’s not just online viewers who are [...]
