September 2009
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PSFK: Over 1,200 NYC Trash Cubes Sold →
Because design matters more than content, far more often than you’d like to admit.
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“The UK has become the first major economy where advertisers spend more on...”
– Internet overtakes television to become biggest advertising sector in the UK | Media | The Guardian
we all knew this day was coming…it will be a lot of fun when this happens in the US market.
(via bijan)
This is interesting, but what’s terrifying is the difference in pricing, which...
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Watch and Learn.
Because actually doing it should come far enough after that it doesn’t get to be in the saying.
I understand that the best way to learn is often by doing. But the Internet creates a complex problem in that regard; doing it in public should, in professional situations, come after the learning.
Will the separation be between private and public, or personal and professional?
Either way,...
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5 blog recommendations
http://www.mikearauz.com/
http://wearethedigitalkids.tumblr.com/
http://www.psfk.com/
http://rubypseudochatchat.blogspot.com/
http://blankanvas.bypatlaw.com/
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You are Talking, first and foremost.
All communication technology is augmented talking. Written language is talking that can conquer time and distance, granting it range and longevity. Printing press was the same, with the added benefit of speed. Video, IM, Radio, all technologies that take talking, and give it the scale that one-to-one communication can never have.
But you knew that.
So why is the conversational aspect of...
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Quality is Insufficient.
Signal is noise, sad but true. There is enough good content, enough good products, that merely being good, or merely being great, is insufficient to guarantee success. Being excellent is a bare minimum, I would hope.
You also need to be visible, be interested, be remarkable (as in, worth remarking on) and be continually refreshing.
Don’t tell me that advertising, marketing, or PR are...
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Jason Fried: The next generation bends over →
jayparkinsonmd:
caro:
Mint was a key leader of the next generation of game changers. And now it’s property of Intuit — the poster-child for the last generation. What a loss. Is that the best the next generation can do? Become part of the old generation? How about kicking the shit out of the old guys? What ever happened to that?
As more great new companies are absorbed into big old companies,...
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You aren't Da Vinci.
spytap:
I was having this same conversation with a friend of mine about a week ago. He asked me what I thought he needed to get from where he was to where he wanted to be. In the end, it came down to “Identify what your faults and lacks are - both personally, and business-wise. Be completely honest. Then either fix them, learn them, or hire someone else to handle them - whichever is more...
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You aren't Da Vinci.
everythingismedia:
attentionindustry:
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Very few people are Da Vinci, very few people have the ability to excel in many different areas. But the assumption that you HAVE to be Da Vinci causes some serious problems.
If you’re crap with numbers, you wouldn’t do your own accounting. It would be idiotic to do so. Similarly, If you are a world class painter,...
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You aren't Da Vinci.
This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Very few people are Da Vinci, very few people have the ability to excel in many different areas. But the assumption that you HAVE to be Da Vinci causes some serious problems.
If you’re crap with numbers, you wouldn’t do your own accounting. It would be idiotic to do so. Similarly, If you are a world class painter, you would probably want...
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Tired of the following.
Two blatantly incorrect statements I’ve been encountering, again and again. I’ll dedicate a post to each of these in the near future.
If consultants were actually right, they would be out creating their own products instead of working with others.
Advertising, marketing and PR are unnecessary, if you have a good enough product.
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Sprouter Blog: Your social media strategy won’t... →
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“The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will...”
– Edwin H. Friedman (via verymuch) (via infoneernet) (via christinebeardsell)
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Public Service Announcement.
Due to my work-related duties during TIFF, I’ve been more or less a ghost for the past week, and will be until the end of the week.
Apologies for the lack of posting. In other news, my Tumblarity is apparently inversely related to the number of unread RSS items I have.
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Asymmetrical Communications.
[This is a re-envisioning of a two year old post, entitled: Paris Hilton and the Attention Arms Race.]
Attention used to be about volume. If you were one of the chosen few with a voice loud enough, you would garner the segment of the population that cared about what you had to say. Loud voices included, on a society-wide level, newspapers, radio stations, television networks, and heads of...
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The Importance of Perception.
Last night I mentioned, on twitter, that I find Keira Knightley exceedingly attractive. The few responses I got were judgemental, to say the least. The word ‘anorexic’ was thrown around, which I personally find distasteful (Aside: in general, calling every thin woman anorexic is the same as wandering around calling every heavyset person a disgusting pig, with a nice dollop of...
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Greatest 'Hits': Paris Hilton and the Attention...
[This post originally appeared on my old blog, BrokenGentleman.com, on Feb 18, 2007]
As mentioned in this earlier post, The Rebel Sell influenced my view of many things in society as a kind of arms race. While I read not too long ago that Paris Hilton could best be considered a platform, rather than a celebrity (the argument being that she can aid promotion by associating things with herself,...
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Don't leave voice mails.
chartreuse:
communicatrix:
Many businesspeople under 40 have officially stopped listening to their voice mail. Instead, they consult their call log, call back anyone they know or who seems intriguing, and figure everybody else will follow up through another digital avenue if it’s really important. A voice mail, young people say, is almost by definition something you don’t want to listen to:...
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The Rise of the Super Fakes →
If you want to feel smarter after reading something, Jan Chipcase is for you.
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Lost Data.
It appears that I thoroughly screwed up installing the Google Analytics tracking code in Attention Industry when I updated the theme, added comments, etc. As a result, I have no clue what happened in the last month, traffic-wise.
While I don’t use this information for anything other than to refine my knowledge of what people find interesting, it depresses me to have lost that data. I feel...