The Tower of Babel
Cities live and breathe. As I wrote in a post last week on Social Media, cities are no more artificial [technological] than the hives of bees. As we go about our daily lives [mostly unconsciously,] we psycho-drift from block to block through neighborhoods that we know well, in amongst communities that have [...]
For musicians, 1000 true fans may be the way to lift their sales and therefore their careers out of the flat plains of the Long Tail. Looking for information about 1000 fans, I entered ‘1000 friends’ as a search term in Google - it returned 12.2 million results. Here are the Google results.
In this [...]
Portland band, Hockey, in a social networking environment.
I have some homework for those of you who like to read. Having been on many conference panels in my time, attempting to inform musicians and others about the value of using the Internet for marketing, my research led me to notice how the online social networks and [...]
Forget about the iPhone G3, this year’s gadget of the year is what I like to call the ‘scratchula‘. Not only does it’s metallic chrome flat surface flip burgers (or veggie burgers) like a normal spatula, it also has jagged sides for scratching and scraping the grill AND a lil’ slot for popping the [...]
Fail, owned, pwned….all the good stuff.
It seems to me that the music industry and its advisors move at a glacial pace when it comes to embracing the internet and new business models. There have been remedies at hand for years now, I would say at least a decade, but no one in the music industry has made a serious attempt [...]
The copyright police are working 24/7 by the look of it. I have a personal Brightcove account which I admit has been laying dormant for some time. It appears the Brightcove people have flagged my videos up there as suspect. The first two, you will note, are by Menomena and Boy Eats Drum Machine - [...]
Michael Cogliantry - Furry Kama Sutra from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Dress up in animal suits, go to a designated site, begin the grope and enjoy anonymous sex. The video has Michael Cogliantry explaining what went into his exhibition, Furry Kama Sutra at the Nemo Design space.