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 [...]
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 [...]
Things I Liked- week 2
June 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Stuff I Like
Virgin Air Apps I loved Virgins first app Flying Without Fear so much I used it as an example of a brand getting mobile app development right when I spoke at PSU’s Internet Marketing Conference back in December. They’ve followed up with another one I like – Jet Lag Fighter In both cases, I like [...]
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 [...]
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