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Monthly Archives: January 2010
You Are So One-Track: Kids Squeeze 10.75 Hours of Media into 7.5 Hours Every Day
In a feast of content consumption with Houdini-like overtones, today’s multitasking youth find a way to overclock their daily intake of various media at a rate of 143%. These numbers come from a study of media’s effects on America’s youth … Continue reading
J.D. Salinger Died Today.
Jerome David Salinger, who introduced the voice of ironic detachment through Holden Caulfield back in 1951, long before David Letterman brought it into our homes on a late-nightly basis, died today in the same seclusion he’d lived in for the … Continue reading
The U.S. Takes the Slow Lane On The Information Highway
The web traffic eggheads at Akamai just released another report on the state of broadband that shows how far behind US speeds lag compared to other developed countries. In the Fall of last year, we connected at an average speed … Continue reading
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Tagged Akamai, Broadband, Romania, South Korea, Usain Bolt, YouTube
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Life Is A Test, And These Days It’s REALLY Multiple Choice
You know, about the time I realized that we were already four years into the US Mint’s ten year program of releasing five state quarters a year, I also concluded too much choice can really mess you up. Convenience stores … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Springsteen, Buzzfeed, Crayola, Indiana Toll Road, Netcraft, Roper Research, US Mint, Weathersealed.com
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re: Out of Touch TV Executives – Exhibit A
The whole Leno/Conan/Tonight Show sideshow of the past couple of weeks has inevitably started settling down. Still, this clumsy episode provided the general public a glimpse of the decision-making and strategic skills of the braintrusts at network television. Even a … Continue reading
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Tagged Access Hollywood, Bruce Springsteen, Conan O'Brien, Entertainment Tonight, Internet, Jay Leno, Jeff Gaspin, NBC, Park West, The Tonight Show, YouTube
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A Nation of Unlocked Doors, Digitally-Speaking
We’ve all heard the stories about the Norman Rockwell days of yore, when people never locked their houses and left the keys in the ignitions of their parked cars. How quaintly unimaginable all that seems today. And yet a recent … Continue reading
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Tagged Cognitive Brain Function, Hacking, Imperva, IT, Molly Hatchet, Passwords
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Have You Ever Heard of Nolan’s Cheddar?
Probably not. But maybe you’ve seen this ad somewhere on the web. It’s a spot for a cheese billed as “Seriously Strong” and “Award Winning Cheddar Since 1859.” Over :90 rather amusing seconds, we watch the adventure of a mouse … Continue reading
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Tagged Cadbury, John Nolan, Kraft, Nolan's Cheese, Survivor, The Carpenters, The Doors, viral, YouTube
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File Under “Mixed Signals”–the Simmering Kids and Eyeglasses Controversy
In my daily scanning of internet ephemera that I justify under the catchall heading of ‘keeping tabs on the culture,’ two items popped up yesterday that my cerebral cortex couldn’t reconcile without massive cognitive dissonance. First, an item posted on … Continue reading
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Tagged Buzzfeed, Cognitive Dissonance, Hipster Glasses, MediaPost, Research
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Chicago Visionaries: Daniel Burnham, MLK and Fr. Chris Devron
His biggest installation (the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1892) is long gone except for a few city parks and his Flatiron Building graces another city but architect and urban planner Daniel Burnham lives on in the minds of many Chicagoans … Continue reading
A Plea for Education In Honor of Dr. King
This is either an indictment of a failed educational system or slipping standards of American workmanship. Of course, it might also just be a misspelling. By Dennis Ryan, CCO, Element 79 Bookmark It Hide Sites
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