Scott Heifferman lists 50 reasons why more people aren’t using your Web site. It’s a great checklist for interactive marketers and publishers. But a majority of these points are highly relevant to all marketers and advertisers – and particularly mass hawkers of crappy commodity products clamoring for our attention and engagement.… Read the rest
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Buzz For “Snakes On A Plane” Goes Beyond Blogs
Buzz for Snakes On a Plane – for which I’m probably the one-trillionth person to comment on – blew up in the blogosphere. But it also blew up in the Usenetsphere and the Boardsphere. It also blew up on the raging consumer-video sharing site YouTube.… Read the rest
An Unlikely Suspect Rejuvenates A Dead-Tree Magazine
The irony: The magazine industry – especially the dead-tree side of it – is a big industry that is not going away any time soon. But it is seriously challenged by emerging new media, media fragmentation, changing media consumption patterns, and advertisers’ redirecting of ad dollars to places other than magazines.… Read the rest
Device warns you if you’re boring or irritating
My wife says I need this new emotion device, developed at the MIT Media Lab, and featured in the NewScientist. Seriously:
… Read the restA DEVICE that can pick up on people’s emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them.
Is the FCC’s “bullshit” receding?
Those who work in media, entertainment, journalism or right-wing religion – or who have an inkling of interest in free speech and censorship – are well aware of the FCC’s ambiguous assault recently on free speech and our public U.S.… Read the rest