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Tuesday Top Five - Day of the Dead Edition
Halloween is easily on of my favorite holidays and I bet, during my 10 years of Catholic School, if they had told me November 1 was The Day of the Dead instead of All Saints’ Day I would have been far more excited.
1. M&M’s Dark Chocolate Dark Movies. God, this is old. But I still love it. The concept and the execution are so simple. Great tie in with the brand. I never did...
October 2011
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“Innovation is a cause. It makes people uncomfortable and challenges them to...”
– Dave Armano, Logic+Emotion
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Congressional Reform To Solve Debt Ceiling Crisis →
GothamGal shared a great post today on GothamGalry about the debt ceiling - well worth the read. At least someone is trying to find a solution. Too bad it’s not our government.
gothamgalry:
Warren Buffett, in a recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt ceiling:”I could end the deficit in 5 minutes,” he told CNBC. “You just pass a law that says that anytime...
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Tuesday Top Five - Information Graphics
Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. Walt Disney
It’s all about info graphics this week. So what IS an information graphic? Simple - information graphics take lots of data - usually ungodly boring data - and distills it into simple, clear (ideally) graphical representations. When done well, the result is...
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Pretty as a Picture
This week is all about information graphics (well, I’ll try). Because I just want to see pretty pictures.
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WatchDenstsu does it again with Suwappu - “a toy and media concept”. It’s a really good look at how AR can be used to bridge between real world and digital. Fast Company did a great write-up discussing pros and cons and you can get more details from the Dentsu blog.
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Tuesday Top Five
1. We lost one of the greatest innovators of our generation. Jonathan Mak from the School of Design at Polytechnic University of Hong Kong gave us something words could not.
2. Jon Stewart explains how the Daily Show is made (no, they don’t use child labor). (via Open Culture)
3. The Muppets take on Sesame Street corporate greed.
4. You can do some really cool stuff with the new...
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WatchA good cheat sheet to look super smart about social media around the world (ok, a little longer than a cheat sheet, but pick and choose as needed). Once again, brought to you by our awesome friends at Digital Buzz.
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Watching TV
As streaming boxes take over TV other companies within the industry scramble to catch-up. And obviously are still missing the point.
Comcast plans on launching the on-demand debut of Universal Pictures’ “Tower Heist”, Eddie Murphy’s action-comedy only 3 weeks after premiering in theatres. (Note - Comcast Corp is the parent company of Universal Pictures). Of course,...
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Difficult And Impossible
The next time someone says “You are being difficult” remind them that Apple thought Steve Jobs was being difficult and they fired him.
He then went off and created this little animation company called Pixar.
Apple asked Steve Jobs to come back in 1997 when they were about 90 days out from bankruptcy. Steve nixed the Newton, created a partnership with Microsoft and refocused the...
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iPhone Ennui - Get Over It
When Apple announced the iPhone 4s today, I had a mini-meltdown.
“How DARE they!” I thought. “What ever happened to innovation? Excitement? This is ALL you can offer me? Yawn.”
And I went on to pout for a good hour or so.
And then I thought about it.
Go back to …1993. Email? Not unless you were a comp sci major who knew how to use UNIX (or lie about...
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Tuesday Top Five
Good stuff this week:
1. Um, that thing called the iPhone 4S.
2. Lots of great nutrition programs in our NYC schools. Wellness In The Schools , Edible Schoolyards New York, and The Cooking Room. All with heavy weight chefs behind them (chefs who are actually in their kitchens) - Bill Telepan, Shuna Lydon, David Chang, and Zak Pelaccio.
3. Andy Rooney bids us adieu. And is glad to be rid...
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WatchThe US Postal Service has a new ad campaign out, focusing on the dangers of hacking that surround email and the benefit of “hand-devlivered” mail. I have a feeling the money would have been better spent on employee training (“customer service”) and creating a more efficient operational system. But, since that would be too logical, my thoughts on the new campaign:
1. I do...
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PowerPoint Pain
Have you ever sat through a 100+ slide PowerPoint presentation? Or worse, have you ever been forced to write one?
PowerPoint is a great tool when it is not being abused, which, unfortunately is rare. I have seen countless presentations that cram as much text as possible onto one slide (“You can do it in 2-3 slides, just reduce the font to 10 pts”). Or presentations that take Excel...
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September 2011
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Watchmikefooord:
Don Draper Presents Facebook Timeline
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Tuesday Top Five - Slim Pickin's
It’s gotta be a slow week - nothing earth-shattering, unless you count the Facebook redesign and even that’s old news now (privacy concerns and their bid to take over Washington DC, well, not so much. They have some explaining to do). Without further ado:
If you can’t hold out until the 10/16 premiere of Walking Dead Season 2, you can get your fix with their new web series.
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Facebook Tracks You Even When Logged Out →
Ohhh, now THIS is a privacy issue. Facebook claims it’s to prevent spamming and phishing, but one has to wonder - really? That’s the only reason?
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State of the Internet interactive real-time... →
Awesome realtime infographic showing the state of the internet. Digital Buzz Blog gives a great overview:
It’s live, interactive and is constantly calculating various internet and social statistics based on the amount of time you are on the page. For example, it’s calculating how many new wesbites have launched, what the mood of the internet is, the fastest rising Google searches, gender...
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“When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference...”
– Jim Henson (happy birthday Mr. Henson)
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