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Twitter? Or Twit?

August 25, 2009 |

Many people write off Twitter as useless, superfluous and just plain ridiculous.  We agree in 2 cases: • if you don’t need to share with friends and the wider world your ‘status’ • if you, your friends and or your industry … Read More

Twitter? Or Twit?

August 25, 2009 |

Many people write off Twitter as useless, superfluous and just plain ridiculous.

We agree in 2 cases:• if you don’t need to share with friends and the wider world your ‘status’• if you, your friends and or your industry aren’t … Read More

Flip it Good

July 23, 2009 |

When you’re struggling with a creative problem, flip the thing on it’s head. Even if you’ve done it the other way for years.

What if the white swan were black? What if forward were back? What if up were down?

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United Breaks Guitars, but Fixes Public Relations

July 15, 2009 |

Many of you may have heard this story, and over 500,000 have seen the video: a musician flew United, had his guitar wrecked in transit, and when he appealed for recompense, he got none.

So he wrote a song. And … Read More

A Simple Web Banner Can Go a Long Long Long Way

July 7, 2009 |

Take a look at the amusing web banner from Pringles that we’ve attached below (the webpage itself is irrelevant — the ad is the feature, kind of like a bad SuperBowl match up.) As you’ll see, each click of the … Read More

Allison Kraus And Demographic Fate

June 19, 2009 |

Sitting in Chicago Starbucks, #437, sipping green tea, and cranking out work via laptop. 

 

To muffle the barrista rattle and speaker songs blaring overhead required firing … Read More

Reality. Parody. Virtual Reality

June 3, 2009 |

REALITY: Back in 1976, Blue Öyster Cult recorded “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” According to former bassist Joe Bouchard, the ‘cowbell part’ was overdubbed by his brother Albert after the song had been recorded. PARODY: In 2005, a skit on Saturday … Read More

Reality. Parody. Virtual Reality

June 3, 2009 |

REALITY: Back in 1976, Blue Öyster Cult recorded “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper.” According to former bassist Joe Bouchard, the ‘cowbell part’ was overdubbed by his brother Albert after the song had been recorded.

PARODY: In 2005, a skit on Saturday … Read More

Twitter: Death by Spam?

May 27, 2009 |

If you’ve spent five minutes on Twitter and follow a crew, you get flooded by a torrent of info, mostly irrelevant, often useless. Twitter vets filter the noise and recognize the signals.    With that overload in mind, we were intrigued … Read More

The Next Game Changer

May 20, 2009 |

In the beginning, there was light. Then iPhone.  (Not to mention its 20,000 apps in year one.) Now there’s Amazon’s Kindle. Intro’d at the end of ’07, this digital book reader can be perused like paper with batteries lasting almost 2 … Read More