by David | Jun 9, 2018 | Amusing Nonsense, Digital Migration, Foodstuffs, Gulp With Enthusiasm, Sip With Assurance
Like many journalists turned multimedia world travelers, I envied Anthony Bourdain. It seemed like he had the greatest job in the world. Travel to amazing places, hang out with the smartest, most interesting people around, eat delicious, innovative food, and get paid...
by David | Feb 15, 2018 | Amusing Nonsense, Gulp With Enthusiasm, Mobile commerce, Sip With Assurance
If we’re going to have to suffer through endless TOS statements, they might as well be fun to read I seem to have struck some kind of nerve this week in responding to a whimsical Tweet referencing something that we are all guilty of – losing focus while...
by David | Dec 13, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense
At the end of every year, magazines, newspapers, pundits and chuckleheaded bloggers like me all do what we used to call “thumbsuckers” back in my old newspapering days. We kick our feet back on our desks, stare up at the stained asbestos-laced soundbrick...
by David | Sep 26, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense, New Marketing
I understand that to break through the “noise” you have to sometimes be a bit outrageous… …but accusing yourself in a press release of committing crimes is a bit over the top. Supposedly, …in a series of “stunts” to gain...
by David | Jan 24, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense, Conspiracy Theories, Politics & New Media
The Teleprompter is Us Tonight’s State of the Union address is being billed as “the most interactive political act ever.” Well, other than the crowdsourcing that brought people to the guillotine during the French Revolution. Although, if you read...
by David | Jan 8, 2012 | Amusing Nonsense, Digital Migration, Video
Video Everywhere Comes to Our Clothing I guess it was inevitable. Back in the 80s, hip designers realized that consumers were willing to become walking billboards for their product logos, all for the sweet, sweet tradeoff of being able to flaunt our ability to buy...