God help me, I don’t like to blindly follow, but there is just something about the Vaynerchuk enthusiasm that’s hard to deny. Anyway, from the mind and heart of @garyvee comes Good People Day… a day to think about and celebrate good people. The idea is to bring those people out into the light of […]
Ryan Adams has a blog and the fire hose is on and spewing strange and beautiful art.
SHOPPING IS GENIUS from Ryan Adams on Vimeo. Ryan Adams is prolific. Usually that means he’ll release a few albums in the space of a few months, but now – in the age of personal expression – it means that he can produce any manner of artistic communication he and his psychosis can dream up. […]
How magazines (the original social media) squandered their position and (almost) screwed the pooch with regard to the web.
For what seems like centuries the magazine has been the state of the art in social media. The magazine has, more than any other medium, been a crucial element in the building of communities of specific interest. Whether that interest is wine, motorcycles, baseball, or marijuana, you can bet there was a magazine using the […]
Gary Vaynerchuk drops some science, the kind of science you need to study.
I have been on the Gary Vaynerchuk bandwagon for a while now, and until recently I was just following his lead on wine. Lately though, @garyvee is really hitting a nerve in terms of plain old life. His perspective has always been true… always been honest… always been about the things that matter. No bullshit, […]
Are magazine publishers being well served by their trade press?
I read an article today that got me a bit peeved. The story – Profitable Web 2.0 Tactics – was the cover story for the March 2008 issue of the trade magazine Publishing Executive. In the interest of stirring debate I left a comment on the mag’s site and as of this posting it was […]
A pervasive medium is always beyond perception
It scares me sometimes… the degree to which McLuhan nailed it. His take on how media and the electronic age were/are re-shaping the human experience was so profoundly accurate at such an early point in time one has to wonder whether or not he fell from the future. For more interesting video you must go […]
Obama urges us to strive to be that more perfect union
If you follow politics at all you have no doubt heard by now that Barack Obama delivered a speech today… actually he delivered a groundbreaking, paradigm shifting address on matters concerning race, family, friendship, and the great American discourse. Yes friends, today Barack Obama showed us just what politics in this country could be like… […]
A magazine tries to get a handle on its carbon footprint as bigger fish wait patiently to be fried.
Even though selling ink on paper as a business has a host of problems that don’t involve slowly killing Mother Earth there is a common perception (among printheads and publisher types) that by going green, getting carbon neutral, cleaning up production and distribution, life could go on and business could return to normal. Without a […]
Thank God For Keith Olbermann
This guy has been nothing but fun to watch and intelligent since his days on SportsCenter. Over the past few years he has become the country’s best voice of sanity. Here he delivers some sense on the Clinton campaign’s handling of the Ferraro fiasco.
X Saves The World
Above: A nice, crisp, ten minute video of author Jeff Gordinier discussing the main themes of his new book on Generation X – X Saves The World – due out on March 31. I have to admit I haven’t thought much about the social implications and context of my generation, Gen X, in quite a […]
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