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Category Archives: Social Media and the Interwebs
User-Generated Content Before the Fall of Rome: Achieving Immortality By Creating
Nero was a first-century emperor of Rome. He is rumored to have executed his mother and poisoned his brother. His friends report that Nero liked to roast Christians in his courtyard at night for the special glow they gave off. … Continue reading
Posted in Post-History, Social Media and the Interwebs
Tagged Adolf Hitler, arson, artists, digital self, internet, Nero, Public Art, Rome, Street Fighting Man, YouTube
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Now That You’re Gone, We Love You
Why the Future is a Great Time To Be Dead The dead are living pretty exciting lives these days. More exciting than many of us who are still breathing. If you went to the mega-music festival called Bonnaroo in 2012, … Continue reading
Posted in Futurism and the Tomorrow Mill, Pop Culture: Movies, Art, and Comics, Social Media and the Interwebs
Tagged analog life, analog self, CGI, Charlie Chaplin, digital life, digital self, Elvis Presley, holograms, Jack Black, Jeff Bridges, Michael Jackson, technology, Tupac Shakur
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Eternal Life For Pennies A Day
In the future, we’ll all be famous for 15 minute eternities. We will live on, in digital form, as long as artificial intelligence, computers, and our robot overlords allow us. This is a new phenomenon. Thousands of years ago, it … Continue reading
Sponsor Integration is Better Than Product Placement
or Effective Marketing Techniques I Learned from Watching “Bones” In his book, “Socialnomics,” Eric Qualman says the best way to incorporate advertising into media today is to incorporate it into the message itself. In other words, viewers prefer information that … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media and the Interwebs, Technology
Tagged Bones, Brennan, Cheesecake Factory, Hulu, marketing, sponsor integration, TiVo, Toyota, Toyota Prius, Toyota Sienna, YouTube
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You Are Hired – Welcome To the New Media
There are plenty of bumper stickers prominently posted on the back of vehicles across the United States declaring we should distrust purveyors of information. “Don’t believe the media.” “Kill your Television.” This is all good and well. But there is … Continue reading
The Next Billion-Dollar Idea: A Giant Internet Love Fest
An Open Letter to Mark Zuckerberg I’ve been on Facebook for a few years now. Many of my friends are jumping the Zuckerberg Ship and heading over to Google+. They are the early adopters, and the newest thing always seems … Continue reading
Posted in Social Media and the Interwebs, Technology
Tagged communication, Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, MySpace, Social media, Social network, technology
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Death – The Last Internet Taboo
Here is a sad thought. After your death, more people will post condolences on your Facebook page than actually visit your real, dead, analog, human body in the funeral parlor. The internet is no longer an invention. It is now … Continue reading
Don’t Film My FlashMob, Dude – You Obviously Don’t Understand
Art is over. There hasn’t been any significant artistic movements or “isms” in nearly 50 years. Some art experts believe Andy Warhol helped hammer the final nails into the coffin with Pop Art. In the early 1960s, with the arrival … Continue reading
Three Cups of Sham. The Twitter Syndrome?
Greg Mortenson’s book “Three Cups of Tea” has recently come under fire for distorting facts. The supposed memoir is about Mortenson’s journey through Afghanistan, from near death, being nursed back to life by villagers, his alleged kidnapping by the Taliban, … Continue reading
The Internet Does Not Take Sick Days
Admit it? Sure, I admit it. I tend to take on too much. It’s not that I am necessarily an over achiever. I wouldn’t even say that I’m “driven,” or a “go-getter,” or any other descriptor that workaholics take on … Continue reading →