An Accidental Marketer

"You won’t keep control of your time, unless you can say ‘no.’ You can’t let other people set your..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:17:28 -0400

“You won’t keep control of your time, unless you can say ‘no.’ You can’t let other people set your agenda in life.”

- Warren Buffett at a conference earlier this week. (via parislemon)

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Sat, 11 May 2013 17:05:27 -0400

courtenaybird: On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for...

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:04:46 -0400

courtenaybird:

On a normal weeknight, Netflix accounts for almost a third of all Internet traffic entering North American homes. That’s more than YouTube, Hulu, Amazon.com, HBO Go, iTunes, and BitTorrent combined.

(via Businessweek)

attentionindustry: Meme standards being applied to print...

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:31:04 -0400

attentionindustry:

Meme standards being applied to print advertising. Everything is digital these days.

Exciting to see our MOH work featured!

"You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:16:20 -0400

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You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation through button-clicking.

“Social” is what happens when someone posts personal information—photos, thoughts, announcements, favorite songs, jokes—on the internet and another person comes along and clicks a thumbs up icon or a star or a heart. If someone’s really “social,” they’ll even type a comment or reply.

Kids aren’t leaving social networks. They’re redefining the word “social.” Rather, they’re actually using the word with the intent of its original meaning: making contact with other human beings. Communicating. Back-and-forth, fairly immediate dialogue. Most of it digitally. But most of it with the intent of a conversation where two (or more) people are exchanging information and emotion. Not posting it. Exchanging it.

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- Teens aren’t abandoning “social.” They’re just using the word correctly.

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A great post by Cliff Watson, found via @janchip
(via wearethedigitalkids)

"[T]he things people put on display inevitably generate a kind of inertia. In a world where we now..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:14:16 -0400

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[T]he things people put on display inevitably generate a kind of inertia. In a world where we now have extraordinarily efficient ways of communicating and displaying, the question of who you are becomes incredibly complicated.

I think that brands are a part of this. When you surround yourself with certain kinds of objects, they become a public statement about who you are. There are hundreds of choices that are necessary to fill out your life with objects and things, and I think that requires an inner logic as well.

Maybe the modern version of introspection is the sum total of all those highly individualized choices that we make about the material content of our lives…

[O]ur material choices as consumers are no longer trivial. They are now amongst the most important choices we make. They have consequences well beyond our own selves — they have global consequences… you’re saying to the world, “These are my values. This is the kind of world I want.

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- Gladwell on brands (via wearethedigitalkids)

emergentfutures: Biologist Paul Ehrlich gives dire prediction...

Sun, 05 May 2013 08:10:23 -0400

emergentfutures:

Biologist Paul Ehrlich gives dire prediction for global civilization

“We’re a small-group animal, both genetically and culturally. We have evolved to relate to groups of somewhere between 50 and 150 people,” he said. “And now suddenly we’re trying to live in a group not of 150 or 100 people, but of seven billion people, somewhat over seven billion people at the moment, and that is presenting us with a whole array of problems.”

Full story: VTDigger

Thor Muller: Carl Sagan in the house

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 21:19:15 -0400

Thor Muller: Carl Sagan in the house:

thor:

Recently, I noticed that Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was available on Netflix and I was blasted back to my 8 year old self, stumbling into the living room while my parents watched Carl wax eloquent from his dandelion-shaped starship. I have a few flashbulb memories from the show, such as Carl…

"Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed…..."

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:05:03 -0400

“Tumblr users spend an average of 14 minutes per visit, Tumblr founder and CEO David Karp revealed… The reason for the longer session time is not that Tumblr is ‘so much better,’ Karp explained. ‘It’s very different behavior. People come here for same reason they turn their TV on when they come home at the end of the day … It’s something to do before checking your email, it’s a chance to go and see stuff you enjoy, let’s you escape from the real world. And that media experience is one that ends up consuming a fair bit more time than just the amount of time you spend checking your friends updates on Facebook or Twitter or Foursquare.’”

- David Karp | Users Stay Longer on Tumblr Than Facebook, Says David Karp (via courtenaybird)
Different, not better.

ceevee5: fuckingfuckingchickentown: proper camera. My dad...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 08:02:08 -0400

ceevee5:

fuckingfuckingchickentown:

proper camera.

My dad worked in their Toronto factory for 20 years. Great Xmas parties for employee children.

bikethesign: The right choice is between your legs

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:51:23 -0400

bikethesign:

The right choice is between your legs

Netflix Surpasses HBO in U.S. Subscribers

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:14:39 -0400

Netflix Surpasses HBO in U.S. Subscribers:

parislemon:

Andrew Wallenstein for Variety:

Netflix reported 29.17 million domestic subscribers in the first quarter of 2013, surpassing HBO for the first time.

You see that fire? That’s all of our collective money burning holes in our pockets just waiting for HBO to unleash Go without a goddamn cable subscription.

Dracarys!

emergentfutures: News is bad for you – and giving up reading it...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 16:00:58 -0400

emergentfutures:

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier

Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life, asks Rolf Dobelli.

Full Story: The Guardian

An uninformed electorate makes me nervous, but is social news more skewed than corporate news?

ianbrooks: Street Lit Putting a message on a wall can be a...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:57:43 -0400

William Carlos Williams, "Red Wheelbarrow" photo by Mark LaFlaur

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "The Little Prince" photo via mes-hautes-montagnes.com posted by ianbrooks.me

Edgar Allan Poe, "A Dream Within a Dream" photo by mermaid99's flickr

George Orwell, "Animal Farm" photo via windshoes.khan.kr

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" photo via baddogwhiskas' flickr

J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring" photo by Gary L. Quay

Kurt Vonnegut, "Slaughterhouse Five" photo by devianarts posted by ianbrooks.me

Allen Ginsberg, "Howl" photo by Dan Allison

"Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song" from Edmund Spenser's Prothalamion photo via rosetintdesign.com

J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Fellowship of the Ring" posted by ianbrooks.me

ianbrooks:

Street Lit

Putting a message on a wall can be a much more effective way to reach the masses than expecting them to go find a book and learn it themselves. Some men just want to watch the world learn, regardless of medium. This collection of street arts details some memorable lines from famous books, hit the pictures to see which author and title, if you didnt already recognize them immediately.

(via: BuzzFeed)

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Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:38:28 -0400

edgeperspectives: The end of big (media): When news orgs move...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:27:48 -0400

edgeperspectives:

The end of big (media): When news orgs move from brands to platforms for talent

Re-conceiving news organizations as platforms for talent with diversified revenue

courtenaybird: Thanks to DVR and Streaming Services, “Binge” TV...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:17:54 -0400

courtenaybird:

Thanks to DVR and Streaming Services, “Binge” TV Viewers Abound

A February 2013 study by market research firm Harris Interactive looked at how consumers used TV advancements to watch when they want and “binge-view” TV content. According to the findings, nearly eight out of 10 US adult internet users watched TV on their own schedule. Of those consumers, 41% did so through a cable or satellite on-demand service. 40% did so through a web-based streaming service like Hulu, Hulu Plus or Netflix. 37% used a recording device like Tivo or DVR, and 29% watched physical DVDs.

"The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet,..."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:09:58 -0400

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”

- Alan Watts (via petite—fleur)

Beware the Panda

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:39:19 -0400

Beware the Panda:

How to maximize your SEO by avoiding the Google Panda algorithm

"One century after the invention of the telephone, we still know the difference between the..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:12:16 -0400

“One century after the invention of the telephone, we still know the difference between the face-to-face presence and the telephonical presence. But we don’t feel it as a problem or a conflict anymore. We know how to enmesh them peacefully. That’s the same with the difference between the digital and the physical: We are learning how to enmesh them peacefully and, very soon, we will no longer feel them as a conflict.”

- Digital Dualism and Lived Experience: Everyday Ontology Produces Everyday Ethics » Cyborgology (via thisistheverge)