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Forget an MBA – Watch creativeLIVE’s “Secrets of Silicon Valley”

by David | Jun 25, 2013 | Digital Migration, New Marketing

 How many times do you get a chance to ask spectacularly successful tech entrepreneurs anything you want? Janine & I just completed two days of intense sessions with some of Silicon Valley’s most successful entrepreneurs at creativeLIVE’s “Secrets of...

The Oscars on Social Media: International Audiences Yawn, US Bloggers Snark

by David | Feb 26, 2012 | new media, television

Live-Blogging the Oscars and Tracking the Tweet Clouds I was hoping that the real-time geo-Tweet maps would show something interesting in and around Los Angeles during the Oscars telecast. No such luck. Meanwhile, the rest of the world didn’t seem too interested...

Wearable Media: T-Shirts, Hats & Wristbands

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...

Where the Symbols on the Dollar Come From…

by David | Sep 27, 2011 | Digital Migration, newspaper crisis

This is painted on the ceiling of the Rila Monastery in the mountains of Bulgaria, one of UNESCO’s World Heritage Sites. I can’t help but wonder whose eye this ancient artist used as the model for the Eye of God. The history and beauty of this complex...

Mindshare LA: “The Illusion of Free Will”

by David | Jan 25, 2011 | Conspiracy Theories, Online Video

No. this isn’t about how advertising brainwashes us all into buying the latest overpriced electronic P.O.S. (although The Onion News Network has one of the most hilarious stream-of-consciousness obscene NSFW videos about this very subject). This is an intro to a...
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