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New media now

Nov 2, 2009
The tide is really turning. Just when you think the corporation is never going to get it, you hear somebody from corporate headquarters sing a rendition of the new media song that is virtually note perfect. Plus the speaker has all those...

Grant McCracken as Max Factor as Walt Whitman

Oct 29, 2009
Tomorrow, Pam and I are going to a Halloween party.  It's called Dead Brands.  The invitation: come as a brand that's gone out of business.  P&G is about to suspend the sale of Max Factor in North America.  So I'm going as Max.  The question is...

Zoltan indicators: Turning the Mechanical Turk into Zoltan the Fortune Teller

Oct 28, 2009
Yesterday, Sara Winge yesterday told me about the mechanical turk. The Mechanical Turk (as I understand it)Let's say Amazon needs to catalog a new product.   It has the word "Java" in the title, and that's a problem.  The system can't tell whether...

Meeting up in Chicago and Detroit

Oct 27, 2009
I am going to be in Chicago on the afternoon of Friday November 6 and Detroit on the afternoon of Sunday the 8th.  Does anyone want to meet for coffee?We did this in SF a week or so ago and it turned out beautifully.  About 12 of us ended up in a...

Walt Whitman and the Levi's ad

Oct 26, 2009
Wieden + Kennedy uses the words of Walt Whitman in their current work for Levi's (the "America" and "Pioneer" spots in the "Go Forth" campaign).  They actually use Whitman's voice as well, recovering it from wax cylinders from the 1880s.At first, it...


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