studying the media ecosystem
My wife woke up first this morning and under our family protocols that allowed her to crank up the volume on the KPPA morning news. Often times I find it a distraction and I look for a quiet room in which to blog but this morning I heard a bit about a planned [...]
Alas it’s too late to remind residents of the United Kingdom and Ireland, much of the Middle East and a smattering of Central Asian countries, including Afghanistan, to send mum a gift, take her to brunch or at least call her for Mother’s Day. In these countries the holiday has already come and gone according [...]
People routinely wear t-shirts advertising everything and anything from their favorite sporting team to some brand they happen to favor. Just the other night my wife and I had to tell our 14-year-old son that he could not buy the bathing suit with a Corona beer logo.
So I’m not surprised that marketers are drooling over [...]
The glossy trade publication is a fixture of commerce. But is it a fading fixture?
A chart published by American Business Media, the association representing the trade publishing industry, reports that advertising pages fell 3.1 percent in January 2007 while ad revenues slipped 2.8 percent relative to January 2006.
The chart is a real pain to read [...]
When I started my summer garden this weekend I was delighted to notice an abundance of ladybugs that seemed particularly interested in the fava beans I had planted as a green manure. Gardening is not only my hobby but a template for how I think about cultivating audiences. People have so many choices for information, [...]
Graffiti is costly annoyance for property owners and a mild aggravation for passersby. When we walk through a neighborhood that has been heavily “tagged” it suggests vandals have the run of the place. It creates a sense of disorder and projects a vague, low-level threat.
Mass media news coverage of events like last week’s Virginia Tech [...]
In wondering whether the web will create ecosystems to support small businesses I revisited GoodStorm, an e-commerce startup that I blogged about last year in another forum. One easy-to-understand thing GoodStorm does is make t-shirts to order. Of course there’s more to their story; they have this “doing capitalism right” shtick.
When I wrote about them [...]
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