September 2008
August 2008
MobiAD » Reebok Uses Ringtones To Rock The Stadium →
this is so, so impressive. Waiting for the Obama “no way no how no McCain” ringtone.
over-thought-out question...
if you woke up tomorrow, and were immortal, what would your plan be?
my current thinking is that i would have a ten year cycle of immersion - ten years as part of a movement, scene, community, what have you, and then ten years of immersing myself in developing knowledge about one specific feild. the ten year cycle would have to fit to living arrangements, as well - moving cities and countries...
“I hate commentless blogs. You’d never put up with that shit in person: “Don’t...”
– Twitter / Charlie O’Donnell (via fred-wilson)
Only problem is, commenting is not like having a dialogue with someone, it’s like shouting at the top of your lungs in a room filled with other people shouting at the top of their lungs.
Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not anti-comment, but keep in mind...
Joe Biden's pro-RIAA, pro-FBI tech voting record →
jstn:
Oh shit.
“All of which meant that nobody in Washington was surprised when Biden was one of only four U.S. senators invited to a champagne reception in celebration of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act hosted by the MPAA’s Jack Valenti, the RIAA, and the Business Software Alliance.”
“It’s not because John McCain doesn’t care; it’s because John McCain doesn’t get...”
– (via spiegelman)
this is my ENTIRE point with mccain.
Stunt lit.
Stunt literature pisses me off. If you’re going to write a book about your life, have a life worth writing about. Don’t eat soup for a year and pretend that you learned something valuable.
in (further) defense of public relations. →
The Long Version: Newsmedia, and Journalism, isn’t the paragon of ethics it pretends to be. This massive concentration of power is in the hands of business interests, like anything else….
why can't i be ripped off by somewhere reputable. →
Oh look, a year old blog post of mine has be re-published somewhere. To be fair, I don’t have a specific problem as long as there’s reasonable attribution (which there isn’t, in this case). I…
it's that time of year again.
when i have no free time, and still manage to see jeff and lindsay (two friends formerly of montreal). this happens a surprising number of augusts.
Couch Blogging
There is something magical about couch blogging without a laptop nearly igniting my pants. That said, I still consider anything less than a laptop class experience is going to be unfinished.
That said, I still have a raging boner for this device. Go iPhone.
on google's android. →
I love Google. My blogging, email, search, online document, etc etc etc needs are fulfilled by them nearly exclusively. But I have no interest in seeing an Android phone, because I don’t understand…
fake follow = fail feed. →
Reading PSFK today I saw a post about Fake Follow, a feature on FriendFeed that makes me supremely uneasy. What amuses me, is that this is getting positive feedback so soon after the ‘PR is evil’…
things i need to blog about.
why i am not at all excited for android phones.
fake follow and why it is terrible.
the hilarity of hating pr, but loving mediated communications because it’s easy / fake.
maybe it's just me...
but the new tumblr dashboard is ugly as sin.
and i’m the guy who actually likes the new facebook, so it’s not a matter of having issues with change.
this makes me wish canadian culture was more open... →
claytoncubitt:
“(Christianity) …the belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree…” (via)
amen.
"Jourdon Anderson, an ex-Tennessee slave, declines... →
(via claytoncubitt)
worser. →
Talking about Bell’s new ad campaign on the subway today, and I realised something. The entire thing, and therefore Bell’s current identity for consumers, is predicated on ‘er’, a sound that is more…
Back from the cottage.
And slightly exhausted.
PSA. →
I’ll be M.I.A. this weekend. Spending some time at the cottage with my wonderful girlfriend. Expect more bloggery come Monday.
jesusphones
i love my iphone sure, but i’m more impressed by the fact that i ran the earbuds through the washer with a pair of jeans by accident, and they still work perfectly.
even the mic and button.
damn.
passive promotion; or, i want hyperdunks. →
[This is very much an example of blogging as talking out an idea. Sorry if it meanders.]
I love creative advertising. A great idea, something original well executed, ceases to become advertising…
SHOWstudio - POLITICAL FASHION - Movies -... →
naomi campbell does something i actually approve of. although, this is heavy handed as all hell.
now do this. →
at first i thought it was stupidly simple. after 2 days of use, i’d say it’s brilliantly minimal and utilitarian. great, no frills, organizational tool. this is all, however, with the caveat that i only use it on my iphone.
four stars.
mygazines →
i have unabashedly wanted something like this for a while. because, dude? i’m not spending $30 on WFM+Men.
Thought of the day.
Wouldn’t it be great of you could integrate PA services into comms strategy, so you would have front line info and control over client decisions?
Or is that just evil?
08.19.08
i’ve decided i’m going to scale back on these, and only post when i’ve wearing something interesting.
i can only type ‘black dress shirt (club monaco), jeans (zara), white high-tops (reebok)’ so many times before even I get tired.
that said, i am going to try to do more image posts in the ‘what i was wearing at this point in my life’ vein, because those...
Watchjstn:
World’s Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million
i feel bad for the guy, but long term investing in something that will be irrelevant before it’s old enough to be antique is usually a bad call. see: recording formats, computer technology, most fashion.
sigh.
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pr, journalism, blogs, and going off on a tangent. →
Email made it too easy.
As soon as you could build a list of contacts, reach each one of them seemingly individually, and fire everything at them instantaneously, building a tight, targeted, well…
bear creek apartments →
hope larson + bryan lee o’malley = awesome.
(via r stevens)
Twitter:
The only thing that goes down more than yo momma.
in defense of public relations. →
In what is a fairly common occurrence, the blogosphere hates PR this week. This is going to come off defensive, as PR is what I do for a…
“For a creative person starting out on a career, try not thinking about film or...”
– Paul Arden, ‘Whatever You Think, Think The Opposite.’
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