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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Theory'
A Myth I Want to Believe
June 25th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Theory
It’s hard for me to reconcile this idea with this blog. Oh well.
Tags:experience·society·strategy
Culture for Change
June 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Theory
One of the reasons I haven’t been writing here as much is because I’ve been writing a couple articles for other sites. One of those is part of a multi-part series for WebTrends on iterative marketing. Part two is now live. If you missed it – part one is here.
The Importance of Farmville
June 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · Theory
Among Time magazine’s 50 Worst Inventions there are many that probably deserve to be there: Hair in a can, the parachute jacket, and popup advertising among them. But two that stuck out to me as being misplaced on the list though were Foursquare and Farmville. Both are regular targets of ridicule as time-sinks, examples of [...]
Tags:Advertising·agencies·brand·ethics·farmville·foursquare·Jane McGonigal·social web·society·strategy
Conservation of Detail
May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Theory
“If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.” – Anton Chekhov Let me just get this out of the way: As a devoted Lost [...]