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iPhone Euphoria: Quote of the Day

July 11th, 2008 No Comments

leemaicon sums up the madness from ny.

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Video Programming Goes Social, TV Just Gets Old.

July 10th, 2008 No Comments

apparently the median age of a tv viewer is hitting a whopping 50. sucks to be a broadcast exec eh?

thanks as usual piers. great info-graphic courtesy of christian science monitor.

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Fair & Balanced Facebook News Flash

June 20th, 2008 No Comments

Facebook is little more than “….a directory. They’ve not monetized as well as us…. they’ve done a great job of being the flavor of the month the last six months of last year.”

wow. thanks for the newsflash rupert. is that fair and balanced reporting? or just a little lesson learned from [...]

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Tech Camp: The Kids Learn An Apple a Day.

June 6th, 2008 1 Comment

..just when you thought Evil Stevie and friends might lose their marketing mojo, they create Apple Camp. I joke about the evil part (a reference to an earlier post), in fact I’d send my daughter if she was old enough. Sure beats sending her here or here.

a great experiential branding case study, even [...]

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Indiana Jones and the Lego’s of Doom: Fanboy Film.

May 21st, 2008 1 Comment

.. another random tangent in anticipation of tomorrow’s Indiana Jones release: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Fanboy’s get their geek on:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGVzt7c5bY

courtesy of Geekologie.
Note: The initial reviews are pretty brutal, but this movie could be a straight-to-video disaster and I’d still be grinning in anticipation.
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TwIDter: What kind of twitter are you?

May 2nd, 2008 No Comments

so now that i’ve expanded my twitter roster a bit, i’m noticing all kinds of twitter-heads. from a simple “what are you doing”, people have moved on to use the platform in several different ways.
here’s an unstable (literally and figuratively) sample size-up of twitter user segments:
twIDsmentation:
twiIDsters: revealing, unfiltered, if not sometimes scary personal headlines
twurps: [...]

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Digital Hack-Graffiti: Skullphone.

March 26th, 2008 No Comments

Graffiti art is something of an obsession for trendwatchers, urban-observers and art-culture freaks. If you’ve seen the headers within this blog, or my flickr gallery you know I’m a guilty part.  So street art lovers, digital geeks..check this out.   Proving that digital convergence is more than a internet phenomenon, graffiti art hits a [...]

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Brainfood: The MIT Open Source Learning Programs

March 26th, 2008 No Comments

 Feeling a little uninspired?  Brain leaking out you left ear working the same account for too long.  Henry Jenkins, Sam, Joshua and the plethora of geniuses at MIT have you covered.

a free publication of course materials
used at MIT.

Get lecture notes, problem sets, labs
and more.
Watch lecture videos and demonstrations.
Study a wide variety of subjects.

MIT World brings [...]

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Geeks Invented, Not Inherit the Interactive Earth

March 18th, 2008 No Comments

… a minor blow to Al Gore and most of us that attended SXSWi, new truths about the internet, google, and a dark and sordid past. No worries for Al, he’s moved on from the internet and is now quite successfully waging a campaign to save the earth. The rest of geeknation, can [...]

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Rude Book Title Zen

March 17th, 2008 No Comments

thank you to John for updating my book reading list.

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