September 25, 2007 – 12:58 pm
Nearly every company on the planet claims appreciation for their customers and promotes the quality of their customer services policies and procedures. The best examples of true customer service are when the deeds of company employees speak stronger than any words the marketing geniuses at those companies can construct. And when the CEO acts to [...]
September 25, 2007 – 10:17 am
Will Wright discusses the game Spore at TED, and the role of Montessori schools and their use of toys and tools for creating playspaces for learning and to how to do the same thing for adults.
In a friendly, high-speed presentation, Will Wright demos his newest game, Spore, which promises to dazzle users even more than [...]
September 24, 2007 – 9:23 am
In an interesting twist, or perhaps the next logical step, a number of celebrities and foundations are teaming with youth media powerhouse MTV to establish a venue for socially-conscious, online social networking. This follows MySpace’s Impact in the online space, and numerous other campaigns and events tying social good to youth.
MTV Launches Socially Conscious Networking [...]
September 20, 2007 – 9:14 am
Today is the first day in 2 years that New York Times online content is available free of charge to readers. The Times dropped their subscription service in favor of an ad-based revenue model (you’ll see the ad when you click the article link below). The move by the Times indicates that 1) ad-based revenue [...]
September 19, 2007 – 8:40 am
CD Baby is an independent online record store that started its life selling the CDs of independent music artists, and is now also provides those same artists a portal onto iTunes and many other virtual download stores. They just announced how well different virtual stores were doing for their artists. (CD Baby has been the [...]
September 18, 2007 – 1:55 pm
This Paleo-Future blog looks at predictions from 1900 of what life was to be like in 2000 and beyond. Some of it is strikingly spot on and some of it is just hilarious. The author of the forecast, none other than John Elfreth Watkins, Jr., seems to have an obsession with the not-so-imminent “gigantic foods” [...]
September 18, 2007 – 12:31 pm
As time shifting becomes the norm for television viewers, the need for “great creative” is falling away, and the placement strategy for ads now becomes paramount. It’s no longer about getting your ad on the most popular show, it’s getting your ad on the show with the most live viewership. It should be interesting to [...]
September 18, 2007 – 8:33 am
As online sales and reservations contribute more revenue to hospitality, travel, and other physical presence businesses (businesses whose connection to consumers occurs at a physical experience point rather than virtually), immature companies without a balanced scorecard approach to overall success may mistake the boom in online sales with a signal to reduce expenditures in traditional [...]
September 17, 2007 – 9:00 am
The New York Times Sunday Travel section had an article on Arcosanti, where I’ll spend a week next month performing as part of the Different Skies 2007 Electronic Music Festival. The reporter really “got” the place as far as I’m concerned, recognizing the potential and realities of the place.
I love this opening…
I’d stopped to use [...]
September 17, 2007 – 8:26 am
My Different Skies friend Dennis’ contribution to some Machinima films made it to the finals of the Machinima Festival Europe 07 .
The series of machinima collaborations that were done, documenting the Second Life media installation called “BLINK”, has been nominated for BEST VISUAL DESIGN for Episode 2, and all three episodes for BEST SERIES and [...]