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Amuse Yourselves

Amish children playing baseball, Lyndonville, ...

Sorry about being away for 2 days – duty calls, kids – not that I don’t feel as if I have an obligation to you! In any event, as I was flying about I started to think about the differences between how entertainment used to work when we were kids and how it works now.  It’s a lot more than the differences between lean back and lean forward.  It’s changed not only the nature of how we consume things but what those things are. Continue reading

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Welcome to 2010!

Party Hat Cookies

Happy New Year!  To start us off, I read two reports over the holidays that I found interesting and which set the themes that I think will dominate media over the next year.  Of course they are about media habits and how this convergence thing is becoming more of a reality to more people.  Obviously it’s been here for quite some time but it’s just now becoming mainstream enough of a technology that “civilians” (non-digital media experts) don’t look at you cross-eyed when you start to discuss it. Continue reading

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Snake Oil

The Twitter fail whale error message.

Social Media is crap.” That’s how I started a discussion at the Princeton Sports Symposium a couple of weeks ago. Of course, what I meant was that there is a focus on the tools of social by many businesses and a lack of understanding of the business reasons why anyone would be using these tools to further their business goals. I am happy, therefore to see that I’m not the only one seeing that, nor am I the only one who sees a bunch of charlatans masquerading as business experts in this space. Continue reading

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