by David | Dec 16, 2009 | New Marketing, new media, Online Video, Video
Her “Bad Romance” music video features prominent product placement for stuff she designs & sells – and has garnered 38 million views. The song itself is kinda beside the point – it’s bubblegum synth-disco-pop, about as bland and...
by David | Oct 17, 2009 | new media
This is the last class I taught in Astana – they were very engaged with the idea of moving from traditional media to “New Media,” particularly with blogging. The main question on everyone’s mind was “How do I drive more traffic to my...
by David | Aug 4, 2009 | Design, New Marketing
I stumbled across this today while poking around at the new Adobe products, trying to decide whether it’s worth it to upgrade to CS4 for the new features in Premiere Pro and Photoshop, or to just hang on to CS3. Anyway, this is a 3-D animated tag cloud to...
by David | Jun 29, 2009 | journalism
On Friday, I lost my cat Duce to a terrible and swift-striking illness. I am going to devote this post to remembering him, because he was such a large & special part of my life for the last 8 years. This is the last notice my friend will receive on this earth,...
by David | Apr 24, 2009 | Amusing Nonsense, journalism, Online Video, Video
Last week at the International Symposium of Online Journalists in Austin, I presented a series of viral videos to make the point that the national discourse is no longer “owned” by what we think of as professional media. It may seem like a trivial point,...
