Category: Technology

• Newspapers Publishing Radio Social Media Technology The New York Times

  Who, What, When, Where, Why

  As someone who reads newspapers, printed on paper thank you, I’ve been intently following the downward spiral of this industry over the last several years. I acquired the habit of reading the paper from my father and there was a point in my lifetime when nearly every adult read the…

  September 22, 2009
• Books Kosmix.com Social Media Technology Twitter

  Kosmix.com – Table of Contents for the Web

  My roots are in books. I ran a chain of retail bookstores in the ’80’s, became a buyer at a wholesaler responsible for making fiction and non-fiction merchandising decisions for dozens of national chains, and eventually evolved to publishing. As the web emerged one of the obvious shortcomings I observed…

  March 16, 2009
• Newspapers Social Media Social Networks Technology

  All the News That’s Fit to Digitize

  There is a precipitous drop in printed newspaper readership. Digital media delivers the same information more quickly, more efficiently and of course in an interactive manner that paper can’t touch. But touch is an important distinction. You can touch a newspaper. How many of us love to wake up Sunday…

  March 13, 2009
• Technology

  Wordle Clouds Taking Web World by Storm

  Like many of you I expect, I’ve been playing around with wordle.net. You drop in a bunch or text or your Twitter handle or your blog address and out comes a text cloud. You can change the shape, size and color to your heart’s content. Definitely cool and I can…

  February 5, 2009
• Film Hollywood Marketing Movie Business Social Media Technology Television

  Movie Studios Try to Reinvent Themselves in 3D

  U.S. film studios enjoyed a lock on the moving picture experience for many years before television invited itself to the party. Movie moguls were afraid that television was replicating the movie house experience so they completely changed the format from a standard 4:3 aspect ratio screen to a much wider…

  January 13, 2009
• Blu-ray Film Technology Television Video

  Yet Another Format, Blu-ray

  I’ve had all the home video formats. It started with the Sony Betamax, then quickly moved to VHS, as the electronics company JVC won that war. Marketers take note, never use the word Beta in the name of your product. From my perspective Beta was superior to VHS in almost…

  December 20, 2008
• Advertising Marketing Social Media Social Networks Technology

  Rapid Fire Marketing Techniques are Required for Social Sites

  The New York Times recently ran a story by Randall Stross assessing how big brands are doing with advertising campaigns on social networking sites like Facebook. The results have not been encouraging for advertisers. Top line: big brands can get consumers interested (term used loosely) using old school tactics like…

  December 14, 2008
• Social Media Technology Twitter

  Mumbai Tragedy will be Game-Changer for Social Media

  I was up very late last night tracking the terrorist attacks in India on Twitter using TweetDeck and Tweet Grid. My mind flashed back to September 11th and the parallel was immediately made by dozens of people and news agencies. My wife was upstairs watching the events unfold as Breaking…

  November 27, 2008
• Convergence Customer Experience Forrester Research Shopping Social Media Social Networks Technology

  Last and Final from the Forrester Consumer Forum 2008

  As mentioned in the last episode, this post will skip the Forrester speakers and customer presentations and cover one of the “outsiders.” Forrester always places a strong speaker at the end of the second day in an attempt to help keep their attendees on site. It usually thins out anyway,…

  November 8, 2008
• Science Technology

  CERN to Send First Beam of Protons Through Collider

  As mentioned in an earlier post here, the European Organization for Nuclear Research has been building a massive particle collider over the last 14 years at a cost of $8 billion. It is now complete and ready to be placed into service. Some think these experiments could cause dark matter…

  September 9, 2008
• Books Forrester Research Social Computing Social Networks Technology

  Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies – Book Notes

  It seems all the marketing world is abuzz over social media. Everyone wants to do it, but there is no best practices approach to follow. That is until now. Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, two high powererd analysts at Forrester Research published a book this spring containing their recipe for…

  August 7, 2008
• Apple Convergence iPhone Technology

  My Favorite iPhone Apps, So Far

  I’ve got a first day (June 30, 2007) iPhone. The beauty of the iPhone is how seamlessly everything is knitted together. Email, text, contacts, calendar, phone, camera, photo gallery, music library, maps, the Internet. I can get to just about anything I might need to know as long as I…

  August 6, 2008
• Browsers Social Computing Technology User Experience

  Flock Seamlessly Merges Browser and Social Media

  Social community sites are popping up all over the web. If you’re active on several of them, like me, you are constantly navigating back and forth to see what’s going on, comment, blog, etc. It’s constant clicking and page loading. Having all this inside a browser would be a cool…

  July 1, 2008
• Books Convergence Technology

  All the World’s a Sage

  Marshall McLuhan’s watershed work The Medium is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects is obviously the inspiration for this post. I first came across his book in 1967 and was completely blown away. My best friend, Tim, a budding graphic designer and fantasy artist, came running up to my front door…

  June 27, 2008
• Convergence Technology

  Online Grocery Shopping Evolves

  I absolutely HATE grocery shopping. Let me be a little more specific. It’s not so much the shopping part that I hate. It’s driving there, waiting in the long checkout lines, pushing the cart to the car, driving them home, lugging them into the house, and generally wasting 1-3 hours…

  June 21, 2008
• Climate Change Convergence Technology

  Agricultural, Industrial, Technological… Eco-Age?

  This really is an exciting time to be alive. There are some crucial moments in the offing. Arguably the most significant presidential election to be held since the birth of the first baby boomer. A realization that our climate is changing and we may be the cause. Growing, insatiable demand…

  June 5, 2008
• Apple Convergence Customer Experience Marketing Social Computing Technology User Experience

  Human + Machine = Manifesto

  For purposes of the post, Human is the Marketing department and Machine is the IT department. Manifesto is my rant. Nothing should be read into the terms. I have the highest regard and respect for IT and Marketing people (I am one) everywhere. I attended Interwoven’s annual client summit, GearUp…

  May 6, 2008
• Health Technology

  Great, Another Exercise Routine

  First there was all that home gym equipment we purchased with good intentions, but quickly became an expensive clothes rack. Next came paying a monthly health club membership fee but almost never using it. Now we find out we have to consciously exercise our mind to help stave off brain…

  May 5, 2008
• Convergence Forrester Research Marketing NeuroMarketing Technology Usability User Experience

  NeuroMarketing – New Tools For Engaging Customers

  Fast forward to some time in the future. The marketing game has completely changed, having evolved beyond test and control, research, etc. Imagine you can understand how your customers react to your products. By react I mean physical responses such as eye movements, heart rate, breathing pace, galvanic skin response…

  April 20, 2008
• Advertising Convergence Technology Television Usability User Experience

  Hulu Raises the Bar on Social and Television

  I have been having a lot of fun playing around with hulu.com for the past few weeks. It’s a joint venture between NBC and News Corp. It’s in private beta right now, so you have to make a request to gain access. Here is how Hulu describes what they are…

  March 4, 2008