Archive for 2011
Digital Marketing Boot Camp, Poll Question Answers
A couple weeks ago, faced with the prospect of talking about social media to the Digital Marketing Boot Camp for Arts Marketers, I sat down to think about what to say. And while it’s typically pretty easy for me to hold forth on just about anything, I suddenly realized I had no idea what to [...]
We’re a Little Worse Today
Julius Caesar was a genius. Not just a regular, work-on-really-complicated-rocket-stuff-for-NASA kind of genius. He was the kind of genius who understood that the Roman Republic was corrupt, spent, and about to be vulnerable to outside domination if it didn’t get fixed fast. Fortunately, as the greatest military AND political mind of his generation, he took [...]
The Great Jump Ball Continues
Two things over the weekend have caused me to revisit the notion of the current period in history as the Great Jump Ball. For the non-basketball initiated, when two players both grab the ball at the same time and neither of them has clear possession, the referee calls a jump ball. The players who were [...]
What I Learned on September 13th, 2001
I don’t have one of those powerful personal stories for 9/11. I was safely in bed in Pasadena, California when the madness began to unfold, and all I did was gape at the TV all day like most people, hoping the world wasn’t coming to an end. There were only one or two people I [...]
Wrong Question, Yahoo
Do you remember when Yahoo ruled the world? I certainly do. I was part of a company that Yahoo bought in 1999 for almost $5 billion in stock. A few months later, that stock was worth even more, going as high as $108 per share (split adjusted) on December 31, 1999, compared to today’s $13 [...]
I Have a Question for You…
In October, I’m talking about social media at the Digital Media Boot Camp for Arts Marketers in NYC. And as I started to think about what I’d say, I kept going backwards, like this: What should I talk about? What do people want to know? What are people doing in social media? What do people [...]
Five Million Tickets
I’ve been roaming the great American southwest for the last couple weeks or so and away from my desk, but I want to pass along a cool piece of info. Here’s a write up by Techcrunch about Goldstar’s 5,000,000th ticket sold. We’re pretty excited and excited to be in Techcrunch as well. If you don’t [...]
Sometimes, I Think Our Culture Has Run Out of Ideas…
And when I see that the game Battleship is being made into a movie, it does absolutely nothing to make me feel better. This is a game, remember, with about as much complexity, personality or story as the keypad to your home alarm system. I thought making a movie based on Pirates of the Caribbean [...]
NBA and NFL Locked Out
It’s not a surprise, but now it’s official: the NBA has locked out its players. And to quote the article I just linked, it’s bad news: “The NBA… is about to show the NFL how to conduct a truly contentious labor war and stage a lockout likely to do real damage in terms of dollars, [...]
Amazon Terminates Affiliate Program in California-Just Sit Back and Watch the Money Roll In, CA!
As a totally inactive Amazon affiliate and a Californian, I got two emails from Amazon yesterday. One said this: “For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of California residents. Unfortunately, a potential new law that may be signed by Governor Brown compels us to terminate this program for California-based [...]
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