Category Archives: Technology
10 Questions About the Future of News
As the news industry morphs into something different and exciting (not to mention, scary for some), a few questions: Will the number of press passes be capped at the White House and both houses of Congress? Will the U.S. Supreme … Continue reading
Filed under Blogs, News, Technology, Web, Writing
Internet Access or Sex? Clever Question
The tagline “Intel Inside” and the Blue Men Group were once the way to position computer chips, a pretty dull topic. Intel, via Harris Interactive, has found another way: Conduct a survey where you ask respondents to choose: Internet access or … Continue reading
Filed under Mobile, Technology, Twitter
Making Room for Old School Disruption
This post on HBR’s business blog is a great reminder. Any company–not just startups–can change the game. Terabeam in the early half of the decade burned through $500 million of VC money and equity trying to change the wireless networking … Continue reading
Filed under Communications Society, Mobile, Technology, Terabeam
Can News Delivered on Paper Survive?
If bicycles can survive–and even carve out new markets with products going for more than $9,000–surely newspapers can reinvent and avoid industrial extinction? Newspapers are information providers in an information age. What would happen if they ditched their printing-presses-and-driveway-delivery model? … Continue reading
Filed under News, Print Advertising, Technology
How Corporate is Your Social Networking?
Businessweek had an item in its Nov. 17 issue on the Nike+ Web site drawing “hordes of runners” who share and track data from their runs. The Nike+ Web site is helping grow the company’s U.S. market share for running … Continue reading
Filed under Social Networks, Sports, Technology
Markets and Psychology
Advice from James Surowiecki in the Nov. 10 New Yorker: “Markets work best when investors are thinking for themselves, and tend to go awry when obsession with what everyone else is doing becomes a dominant concern. Maybe what investors really … Continue reading
Filed under Brand, Business, Creativity, Markets, Technology, Viral, Visibility
Happiest Gigs on Earth
Yahoo today listed the Top 10 gigs in which people are happiest. Number 1? Clergy. Included in the 10: actors/directors, special education teachers and firefighters. Conspicuously absent: bloggers, marketers, journalists, flaks and designers. Surely they are in the top 20? … Continue reading
Filed under Creativity, Technology, Web, Work
Life Offline
Now that the kids are back in school, it’s time for me to get off my tail. Online activity can be habitual. I ventured offline this summer to see how much things might change in daily life. Guess what? Nothing … Continue reading
Filed under Creativity, Technology, Work
Sprint and Its CEO
Last week’s announcement of $3 billion deal among big players like Intel, Google and Sprint to push WiMAX in the market is a nice press release. Dan Hesse, Sprint CEO and now head ad pitchman in a national campaign (a … Continue reading
Filed under PR, Technology, Terabeam
The Value of Connecting
Can you sense it? Are you at the brink of information saturation? Trying to absorb too much? Hearing a lot of noise and not enough signal? Seth Godin, one of the most influential marketing bloggers, felt it yesterday. I have been … Continue reading
Filed under Awareness, Technology
