All The World's A Circ.us

Digital Purity

January 31, 2007 1 comment

Self appointed film geek Halley presents us with an ironic scenario where she is left in a new media environment with a longing for “being there”.  Knowing Halley personally I am not shocked by her paradoxical post as I feel it is very fitting of the way that I see her.
Her musings turn to the [...]

First-Ism

January 30, 2007 8 comments

Frans Charming (yes, the international superstar) pointed out a post that Eric Rice wrote about First-Ism. It was a very timely post for me as I am dealing with a few issues of being in situations that border on firsts (with the proper slant of course . I am staying vague here as [...]

Yes, I am adding to the virus…

January 26, 2007 4 comments

…but I am doing so from a marketing angle. I am not sure that Dominos, who is behind this campaign, will be very successful with it but, what do you think?
In a way I applaud them for the attempt and it is a bit clever but, were people fooled and if so, might they think [...]

The Advertising World Is Flatter than Ever

January 25, 2007 No comments yet

In a roundabout series of events I wound up on a call with the CEO of Ad ECN, Bill Urschel. Although the series of event that led to this informative call were not necessarily common, this set up was not accident.
Allow me to share the events with you:

I posted on a panel that took place [...]

Its still the content, stupid!

January 25, 2007 3 comments

I realize this is not a new microsite, and that Adrants wrote about it on December 6th but I did not get to it until now. This Vista touting microsite is pretty darn clever. My first approach to judging a microsite is to think about how it adds value to the brand. The value proposition [...]

The Times Talks Social, How Engaging!

January 24, 2007 No comments yet

There are a couple a doozies in this one!
This is a really well written article about traditional mediation and how the modern user interacts with media and what this means for media companies and marketers. It also draws the similarities and differences between social networking and its cousin user generated content (which often get uttered [...]

Why are certain folks angry about Second Life?

January 24, 2007 No comments yet

The sea changes seem daily. SL goes from hero to zero and back. What I do not understand is why do the folks who do not like Second Life care this much?
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Is this news?

January 23, 2007 2 comments

The main stream media is really stuck on the fact that Second Life is not a game. Is this news at this point? Perhaps I am very ingrained in the space but articles like this are really getting boring for those of us that have been paying attention.

Tags: Second Life, IBM, CNN Money

Technology is Art

January 20, 2007 No comments yet

Listening To Music With Other Voices

January 20, 2007 No comments yet