Dec
14

Does Google read your email?

Does Google read your email? Perhaps, but Google is not nearly as big a concern as that pimply faced IT kid over in cubicle 37 at the office.

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Dec
10

Mega Personalities

Social media is unstoppable and is creating a phenomenon know as the mega personality, which has the potential to cause unprecedented head butting, and headaches, as our social space becomes more crowded.

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Jun
07

* Top 5 * Techno Tourist Stops for 2010

Seeing as WMC (Winter Music Conference in Miami, FL) is through I won’t add it to my list, therefore leaving space for other honorable mentions… (special thanks to Tanaz Irani, Tanz Agency for creating this list). 1. Movement, aka DEMF (Detroit, US) – Housed in Detroit’s dissonant downtown of decay and delight, one will encounter… Continue reading »

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Mar
17

Ideas Want To Be Free

The Internet has given platforms to a lot of pundits, many of whom have small points of view but big voices, to howl about the theft of ideas. Especially in the area of advertising – which occupies public, accessible space – a lot of people get attracted to the noise, cheerleading the trend to “out” copycat styles, imagery, lighting, themes, techniques, etc. This may be short-term fun, but it’s narrow thinking for the longer term. It’s regressive. Sadly, the misanthropic view is that individuals and societies tend to make the same mistakes over and over. In this case, just as the Internet has given us give the tools to set ourselves free, we clamor to constrain ourselves

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