Via Gizmodo:“Last Tuesday, Lori Mehmen looked out her front door in Orchard, Iowa and this is what she saw. She had a digital camera handy, and somehow managed to take this photo before crapping her pants and taking cover. This, my friends, is why always having a camera nearby is helpful. Oh, and no one was […]
“The video game industry is expected to shoot from $41.9 billion in global sales last year to $68.3 billion in 2012, a compound annual growth rate of 10.3 percent and better than all other media sectors except for online advertising and access.” (Source: Hollywood Reporter)
Another nice example of emotionally intelligent signage, this one from Jenny Jacobi.
“You know, sometimes I’ll go to an eighth-grade graduation and there’s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and flowers. And I’ll think to myself, it’s just eighth grade. . . . Let’s just give them a handshake and tell them to get their butts back in the library!”— Barack Obama, Father’s Day Speech, 6/15/08
“If every artist in the American workforce banded together, their ranks would be double the size of the U.S. Army. More Americans identify their primary occupation as artist than as lawyer, doctor, police officer or farm worker.”(Source: NY Times, 6/12/08, citing a new NEA report)
I was thinking about the business implications of the Obama juggernaut the other day when a friend said to me, “I can’t think of the word ‘hope’ any more without thinking of the guy.’” Something about that comment stuck in my head.Then this afternoon, I was going through some piles of clippings and ran across
Mark Frauenfelder at BoingBoing points us to a perversely interesting advertising innovation posted on The Fire Wire (which is very good blog, btw.)Realizing that littering porches with coupons isn’t all that effective, Papa John’s Pizza “has taken an innovative approach to direct marketing with its deceiving faux delivery boy & pizza appearing at your doorstep. The optical illusion
Please join me for a free one-hour teleconference on Friday June 6 at Noon (EDT), 9am (PDT). I’ll be talking about the ideas in The Adventures of Johnny Bunko and how people can use the book’s six lessons to boost their professional success and personal fulfillment.We’re expecting about 500 people on the call from all over the
Number of new books published last year: 276,649 (That’s 758 new books per day.)Number of new business books published last year: 7,651 (That’s nearly one new biz book each hour.)(Source: RR Bowker report, 5/28/08)
Reeling from growing irrelevance and the circulation of a dead man, the Washington Post recently offered buyouts to staffers who’ve reached the age of 50. If we cut costs and clear out expensive personnel, the Post reasons, maybe we can figure out how to make this Internet tubes thing work for us.Alas, my guess is that readers won’t
