I love tapas. You probably do too although you may not think of them as such. In Spain, these are little plates of food – a few bites – that traditionally have been eaten while you’re at a bar. In Italy, particularly in Venice, they’re called cicchetti – bite sized appetizers. Bar food. Go on, admit it. How often have you looked at a menu and ordered 3 or 4 appetizers while skipping an entrée? They’re the stuff of which great bar hopping experiences are made. Meals you eat in snack-able portions. We’ve become a culture of snackers, and it’s not just in food. Continue reading
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Amuse Yourselves
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
Filed under digital media, Thinking Aloud
Welcome to 2010!
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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