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Entries from July 26th, 2010

More on asymmetry and the web

July 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Theory

If you haven’t seen it yet, Jay Rosen has an excellent run down of some of the journalistic implications of the newest Wikileaks story around the release of the Afghanistan War Logs. The whole thing is really interesting and you should read it all, but one of the most interesting for me was his fourth [...]

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Putting the “ugh” in partner marketing

July 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Letters to Brands

The idea that Android is to the mobile space what Windows was to the PC space is an idea that crops up from time to time. My take on this is that the relationship between society and technology is too changed and too dynamic to make any one-to-one comparisons like that. Also, I assume Windows [...]

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We’re #1! Of the Worst!

July 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Letters to Brands

Oh my god! Another Apple/Antenna blog post! I just made your day. You’re welcome. Actually – this isn’t really about the iPhone antenna, at least not directly. Rather it’s about this page Apple put up today following their press conference. Every smartphone has a cellular antenna. And nearly every smartphone can lose signal strength if [...]

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And then what?

July 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising

Remember a few weeks ago when Nike dropped their commercial for the World Cup and it was the best commercial ever? And then remember when everyone was pointing to the survey showing that Nike and swooped in and stolen all the World Cup buzz from Adidas? Well – this came out today. I’m always hesitant [...]

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