Rhonda represents the marketing manager who frequently attends conferences or workshops about various forms of online media. Related posts:Will Ferrell testing big screen ideas on the tiny screen Rim shot Actual office conversation | Continue reading
I do believe there will be a place for flying cars, but they will be nothing like in the Jetsons. Related posts:Flying cars and next year The flying car I don’t expect to see anytime soon (but I keep hoping) Top 10 Stories About Flying Cars | Continue reading
Donald Trump can say anything and won't lose voters. To win in November, however, he must appeal to new voters.Related posts:@AmazonMP3s very smart use of Twitter during Superbowl XLVI Scott Adams on Why Trump Will Win in a Landslide Why smart people don’t give a rip about what t … | Continue reading
As the 12 regular readers of this blog know, I try to commute to work by bicycle 2-3 times a week. I do it for recreation, transportation and enjoyment. Obviously, there is some health-related benefits from riding a bike 15 miles round-trip, but I don’t use the “exercise” word wh … | Continue reading
If you want to learn something new (and impressive) today, I recommend this:Related posts:That’s C and it rhymes with B and that stands for… 100 Greatest Films The greatest Christmas movie ever | Continue reading
By the time innovative, creative and insightful marketing trends become conventional marketing wisdom, they are no longer innovative, creative or insightful.Related posts:Ironic conventional wisdom developing about Freakanomics’ success Focus on Content Marketing Mission, Not Met … | Continue reading
Zebra crossings—the striped crosswalks common on roads around the world—don't necessarily work very well.Related posts:Google Maps “Street View” rolls through Nashville, let the fun begin Blake on the street Apple street people | Continue reading
My passions these days include doing what I can to make Nashville a city for people who walk and people who ride bicyclesRelated posts:Bike to Work Day is Friday. Here’s the route I take 2-3 times a week to Downtown Nashville Slowly but surely Bike rides take you places you never … | Continue reading
The BBC is a great example of a vast media empire that uses its resources to add context -- history programming, for example -- into the current flow of news.Related posts:One era’s Wayne’s World is another generation’s… The future of magazines should look like magazines Where to … | Continue reading
Some of you may find this week’s Hammock Idea Email interesting. At the insistence of some pesky editors, I left out lots of the 10,000+ words I once wrote about podcasting. Also, as we like to keep these emails to 300 words, those editors suggested that my discussion of the diff … | Continue reading
I discovered the feature I use most on Inbox is a link to Gmail.Related posts:The Google reader makes me feel illiterate (or, Why can’t Rex read?) Twitter joins the email address as universal-identifier club Google vs. Microsoft vs. Intuit vs. Yahoo! for small businesses update | Continue reading
He’s making the country great again.Related posts:The new $5.95 Trump magazine is for readers who don’t have to ask how much it costs Gored Hey, What About All Those Trump Magazines That Failed? | Continue reading
If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be wrong. The Washington Post interviews Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams on why he started predicting last year that Trump would be elected president — back when the rest of us were saying, no way. (I still say, no way.) Here are Adam’s reas … | Continue reading
There is often some bizarre connection to adjacent items in my RSS news reader or Twitter stream. The following three stories all appeared about the same time in my RSS feed. They seem related. But none reference the other, so I guess they are just coincidence. However, as any Ne … | Continue reading
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The chart below is the past week’s Google trend graph for U.S. Google users searching the phrase, “how to move to canada”? The turning point is three days ago, Super Tuesday (3.2.2016), the day people who were still skeptical of the chances of Donald Trump winning the GOP preside … | Continue reading
I was starting to believe the magazine industry was being ripped off. Until the past weekend, I hadn’t seen any Trump branded magazines among the many lists of Trump failures appearing. I recalled some as I blogged about them nine years ago. Even better, my friend Dylan Stablefor … | Continue reading
Two years ago, in an issue of the Hammock Idea Email, I wrote about research into why people aren’t convinced when presented with irrefutable evidence that something they believe in, is false. As Donald Trump’s supporters are exhibiting such a pattern — even he admitted it with t … | Continue reading