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Tag Archives: Clay Shirky
Mass Participation and the Propagation of Memes
As recently as twenty years ago, pop culture ideas used to last a few years: parachute pants, pet potbellied pigs, the Super Bowl Shuffle… Over time, as communication platforms began to supersede regionality and even nationality, those lifespans began to … Continue reading
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Tagged Clay Shirky, Facebook, Levi's, Meme, Motivated Photos, Super Bowl Shuffle, Twitter, William Hung
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Happy New Decade! Here’s One Prediction for Advertising in The Teens…
Not a list or a look back of any kind; just one prediction regarding all this industry convergence and confusion about how the advertising business we knew will evolve in the decade ahead… #1. The Days of Strategy Are Over. … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertising, Clay Shirky, Integration, Prediction, Recommendation, Story, Storytelling, Strategy, The Lord of the Rings, Web 2.0, Zocalo Group
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A New Local Network: ChicagoNow.com
The people over at Tribune Media just debuted chicagonow.com: a new blog network launched two weeks ago after three months in beta as chicagosbestblogs.com. Aggregating seventy+ blogs that loosely share a Chicago-centric theme, this site aims to attract young, digitally-savvy readers uninterested … Continue reading
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Tagged Blog, Bud.tv, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, ChicagoNow.com, Clay Shirky, Community, Craig Newmark, Improv, Web 2.0, Wired
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Yes, You Can Tweet a Novel! But Why?
A skillful artist can make amazing things out of toothpicks and glue. Self-taught Wayne Kusy builds ships like the Titanic and Lusitania. His twenty-five feet long model of the Queen Mary required 814,000 toothpicks and nineteen gallons of wood glue. Patrick … Continue reading
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Tagged Clay Shirky, David Mach, Matchstick Sculpture, Matt Stewart, Patrick Acton, Scott Weaver, Toothpick Sculpture, Twitter, Wayne Kusy, Wood Glue
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Technology Provides A Mass Channel for Opinion. And Delight As Well
As sophisticated marketers, we rarely give enough shrift to the notion of delight, perhaps because its such a dowager aunt of a word. But people have a deeply-ingrained appetite for delight. And as much as technology has progressed the art … Continue reading
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Tagged Clay Shirky, Delight, Hibi no Neiro, Music Videos, Opinion, PES, Sons of Maxwell, Sour
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On Twitter, Social Immediacy, and the Recurring Non-Death of Jeff Goldblum
We seem to have hit a rough patch for celebrity deaths this past week: Farrah Fawcett, Michael Jackson, and just yesterday, pitchman Billy Mays. The demise of Michael Jackson in particular captured worldwide interest and led to all sorts of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abe Vigoda, BET, Clay Shirky, Farrah Fawcett, Google, Harrison Ford, Jeff Goldblum, Lance Hill, Michael Jackson, Snopes, Social Media, TMZ, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Twist, Twitter
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Have You Friended the Pope Yet?
As reported in various news channels before the recent Holiday weekend, the Vatican launched www.pope2you.net last Thursday to celebrate World Communications Day, or Inter Mirifica: an outcome of the Second Vatican Council. This year, the Pope’s message directly addresses ‘the … Continue reading
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Tagged Apps, Brand Mission, Clay Shirky, Facebook, Here Comes Everybody, Intramural Organizations, iPhone, Missionary Work, Pontifical Council for Social Communications, Second Vatican Council, Smurf, social networking, Word of Mouth, World Communications Day, YouTube
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Social Networking For Social Nitwits
A Reuters news story that’s simultaneously fascinating and pathetic discusses the phenomenon of hate groups turning to social networks to spread their extremist messages. The Simon Wiesenthal Center reports that the same sites where we send birthday wishes and take … Continue reading
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Tagged Clay Shirky, Facebook, Here Comes Everybody, Jake Johannsen, Racism, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Social Networks, YouTube
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Technology Changes Advertising, But It Might Also Change Something (gasp!) Even Bigger
I come from a military family. My Dad graduated from the Naval Academy in Annapolis and my older brother was ROTC at Penn State, eventually retiring as a Commander of a P-3 Squadron. I am deeply grateful that America supports … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadband, Clay Shirky, Darfur, Laptops, Literacy, Social Networks, Technology
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Collective-Clowning
About a week ago, Bob Merlotti–unrepentant funnyman and founder of the innovative advertising organization Skeleton Crew–posted yet another one of his casually hysterical status updates on Facebook. It read simply “Bob Merlotti wears the scarf of indignity.” Now I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Merlotti, Clay Shirky, Crowdsourcing, Facebook, Family Ties, Here Comes Everybody, Posting, Skeleton Crew
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