by David | May 8, 2013 | advertising
One in an occasional, erratic and occasionally erratic series Time is money. Image is everything. Manners maketh man. Your reputation precedes you. And now, having a high (enough) Klout score wins you entry into the American Airlines first-class lounge, where you can...
by David | Jan 8, 2013 | Blogging, Blogs, Digital Migration
Somehow, I expected more of a mad scientist’s lab, with chortling henchmen. Or hench-Americans, as I hear they prefer to be addressed…. It is always dangerous to give a group of bloggers (should that be “a flamewar of bloggers”?) a stage and a...
by David | Feb 26, 2012 | new media, television
Live-Blogging the Oscars and Tracking the Tweet Clouds I was hoping that the real-time geo-Tweet maps would show something interesting in and around Los Angeles during the Oscars telecast. No such luck. Meanwhile, the rest of the world didn’t seem too interested...
by David | Aug 2, 2010 | advertising, Amusing Nonsense
First day back from a much-needed “decompression” trip to the redwood forests of West Marin, and I’m greeted by the strangest trending topics when I fire up Tweetdeck for my re-immersion in the raging info-torrent: Strange. The words...
by David | Mar 24, 2010 | advertising
The sessions on social media were all packed … I’d say cheek-by-jowl, but these were marketing and advertising types, after all, and jowls were in rather short supply. It may have had something to do with the recent announcement that Facebook had surpassed...
