by David | Nov 12, 2008 | economics, media, technology
Today’s Social Media Breakfast at Ryles in Inman Square was packed. Packed with social media types looking for work and some free pastry, but also packed with meatier than usual discussion of ROI. You can follow much of the live twitter chatter on the hashtag...
by David | Nov 9, 2008 | culture, design, economics, media, transportation, urbanism
Sometimes I get excited about small things. Some would say that’s the point of this blog. Others would say, “that’s what she said.” Today’s little fixation is the Random Redirect WordPress Plugin by Matt Mullenweg. I have implemented...
by David | Nov 8, 2008 | design, economics
Back in February, I complained that Kiss My Face Moisture Shave was packaged with a lousy nozzle, and even got a nice comment from the company’s CEO, Bob MacLeod. I didn’t think much more of it at the time, and I continued to buy KMF in tube form and...
by David | Nov 5, 2008 | economics, media
At Boston Media Makers, there was sporadic discussion of Twitter advertising, mainly meaning people monetizing their Twitter use by selling ads either in their streams or on their profile pages. It was generally agreed that profile page ads were less invasive and...
by David | Oct 18, 2008 | economics
Part of the winner’s curse when you buy art is that you often end up having to shell out even more cash to properly store or present it. So after getting another beautiful Keith Carter print at The Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Benefit Auction...
by David | Oct 15, 2008 | culture, economics, media
I started off writing another “grumpy philanthropist” bit, but decided to mellow out a little for once. I’d been getting cheesed off at high-fuss low-impact online (and offline) awareness campaigns that didn’t really do enough for the causes. ...
