July 2008
6 posts
Innovation & Reality
As if the IBM “Stop Talking, Start Doing” weren’t enough here’s a post in what is already starting to be backlash to all the innovation talk over the past few years. Just in time for the recession. Anyways, Scott is a new blogger at Havard Business Review and I think the excerpt below sums up what has been flawed in all innovation-craze over the years.
The truth is...
Vanity Fair: Join Facebook and Save My Job! →
This made me laugh this morning, regardless of whether or not it’s a stunt. Below is a snippet from Bill Bradley’s post about this mission.
Five weeks ago, when I started working as an editorial assistant here at VF.com, my boss casually mentioned that he was giving me until August 5 to attract 10,000 fans to the Vanity Fair Facebook page. It was an onerous and epic assignment, and I...
That Wacky New Converse Site
Moderate buzz lately around the new Converse site, which is really a collection of 20 mini-experiences. My thoughts, as an avid indie rock fan is that I’ve seen chuck taylors on 90% of the kids at concerts and bars for the past 10-12 years. It seems similar to Pabst in that the brand was dormant, a generation of kids picked it up as part of their identity and now the ad/marketing machine...
Culture Jamming and Blast from Past
Back when I graduated from my undergradute studies and went to New York City to work, I read TheMorningNews.org religiously. It was the McSweeney’s or Gen X New Yorker of the online world to me.
Started in 1999, luckily they are still around and co-editor Rosecrans Baldwin is writing a blog for NYTimes now. I came across the following blog post on NYTimes from Baldwin about “Culture Jamming” and...