Things Recently Written
June 23, 09
An analogy involving food, news, and your mother
The more I thought on these questions the more the phrase “spoon-fed” stood out – it made me think of my one year old. And then I realized – that’s were we’ve been. In the twentieth century news and media
June 9, 09
This band makes me want to write poetry again
I used to write poetry. I saw the world in metaphor. I spent late nights into early mornings pushing a pen fitfully along ruled lines. I filled corners of open time with random phrases. I turned smiles into ink.
Somewhere along
June 6, 09
Xark!: The newspaper suicide pact
Multinational monster banks are dying – peer to peer micro lending and local currency exchange is growing. Centralized auto manufacturing is dying – a better place and useful mass transit is coming. Factory farms are creating viruses and nutritionally
May 1, 09
The sound and vision of the slightly mad.
I feel as if I’m slowly floating downstream in a raft – a leisure raft filled with beer drinking, sun tanning, lazy calm summer down time. As I look out ahead I see whitewater – rough, tumbling, dangerous change.
March 22, 09
The Death of Display: Thoughts on “Why Advertising Is Failing On The Internet”
Wharton Professor Eric Clemons stepped in it today. His guest post over at TechCrunch is generating both a good deal of buzz and an evil swirl of vitriol. Comment activity on the post is bustling and not everyone is
March 19, 09
The mindless invocation of “The Daily Me”
With their red and blue maps the old school media elite have entrenched the two party system deep into the collective consciousness – old school media has simplified debate, banished nuance, and developed the sound bite to the point that
March 16, 09
A Model for the Magazine Industry
This new tack is going to require some rather intense restructuring as clients will now require more than just a sales contact. Account support will need to be enhanced, creative teams will need to be built, production and design will
March 12, 09
Fat, drunk, and demonizing blogs is no way to go through life, son.
What am I getting at? Your relentless drive to discredit and demonize the Freshman: the blogs. Not only is it mean spirited it just demeans you. You’re better than that. Sure it’s fun and easy to
March 8, 09
Things Fall Apart: Edge Economics And Crisis
This time around things are different. There are undercurrents and shifts in the very nature of the economy that make it unlikely that this storm can simply be waited out. Institutions that grew strong on the centralized, master-servant,
February 28, 09
The Rocky Mountain News and the Newsroom of the Future
This video is illuminating. If you want to know – to really know – why the newspaper is a failing medium then just watch this report from the Rocky Mountain News. (more AND video after the jump)