// so much excitement. so little snow.
// so much excitement. so little snow.
// it’s 27°F outside. i’m working from home presently and wondering if the buses are on schedule.
New media is not just digital media, it embraces ALL media. Books. Merchandise. Live Performances. Your show is not a show, it’s a brand that connects with consumers in different ways at different times and on various different media.
Tilzy.TV » Next New Networks’ Designer Posters via jeremy (via nikography) (via somethingchanged)
// 2 things about publishing books: a writer with an audience doesn’t equal book sales and a writer with an audience equals book sales.
// i’ve got an overwhelming desire to feed wheat thins with cream cheese in to the cd drive of my old mac desktop compooter.
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art… It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis (via katelyns-otherleft) (via scumblr)
For both PC and mobile video, over 70 percent of respondents prefer advertising-supported models as opposed to consumer-paid models…
But whatever else you do, don’t get too much in the way of their content… respondents from all six countries polled protested traditional television models such as interruption advertisements during the video or the use of product placements within programs.
Close to 60 percent of total respondents were willing to provide information about themselves – such as age, gender, lifestyle, or communications preferences – in exchange for something of value.
Todd Watson: IBM’s ‘Beyond Advertising’ Study: Going Digital (via somethingchanged)
// ah, spreadsheets and coffee. what could make the morning more exciting?
What the audience hears:
“Blah, blah, blah… interesting tidbit… blah, blah, blah… exciting insight… blah, blah, blah, etc.”
Seth Godin
But I love being lied to by an impersonal internet babe
From Seth Godin:
This isn’t a honest note from a real person. It’s the carefully crafted non-statement of a committee. What an opportunity to get personal and connected and build bridges…
Oh, the wonderful things you can learn/ignore from the internet.
(Yes, it’s Monday, I’m behind schedule, and I still can’t decide: red pill or blue pill.)
// what’s more important: the life you lead or the legacy you leave?
// ‘painting is just another way of keeping a diary.’
// translating poems i composed in my moleskine journal to my laptop
// found some old sketch books in the barn. makes me want to draw this afternoon.
Surrealist, and therefore comic, but with a specific gravity in his imagining that manages to avoid the surrealist penalty of weightlessness.
Seamus Heaney, Lannan Podcasts
Susan Sontag
“To the academic reader, these are provocative, even flashy performances. To the common reader, they’re like shots of intellectual espresso.” read more »
Magazine of the Year reorganizes company
From Ad Age:
“Some of the layoffs are a result of the integration process,” the spokesman [for the Economist] said….
The majority came not from the magazine but from The Economist Intelligence Unit, the group’s business-to-business publishing arm, he said.
The Economist Group has roughly 225 employees remaining.
The magazine has seen ad page sales slow, however…. The Economist’s North American edition increased ad pages by 3.4% through the Nov. 1 issue….
Its paid circulation averaged 747,254 over the first half of this year, 7.6% higher than the first half a year earlier, according to reports with the Audit Bureau of Circulations.
Coffeehouse Junkie 