William Higham, founder of market research and trend consultancy The Next Big Thing, writing in Adweek presents a vision of just how radical a globally connected group of information sharers is. The more information consumers have at their fingertips, the greater their power. The Internet is a huge enabler, and increased Web access and the [...]
Grant McCracken On Creating A Vital Brand
April 16, 2010 By 1 Comment
Grant McCracken, author of Chief Culture Officer appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, and thanks to the wonders of YouTube, we can all see what he had to say. [via Karl Long]
Big Ideas Move Product, But Great Big Ideas Move People To A Higher Place
March 23, 2010 By 1 Comment
The more I read from writer, artist and coder Jonathan Harris, the more I like the guy. He’s a humanist and the world is in desperate need of humanists, now as ever. In a piece on his site about how he looses touch with his humanity when deep inside a coding project, he shares a [...]
Guy’s On A Mission To Do
March 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Every Sunday The New York Times Business section profiles an exec in its “Corner Office” series. Today the exec is Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of the Alltop news aggregation site and a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures. image courtesy of Flickr user, Thomas Hawk There are two areas that Kawasaki covers that I’d like to [...]
You Can’t Fool Brother Vaynerchuk
March 17, 2010 By 4 Comments
Gary Vaynerchuk was prank called at 5:00 am while in Austin for SXSW. Listen to how he handles it. The dude is quick. Vaynerchuk says, “What I think is interesting here is we now live in a very transparent world and every interaction maybe recorded. The question is, if I handled this differently would it [...]
Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Cyborg Aerobics
February 2, 2010 By 3 Comments
PORTLAND–Around the corner from Wieden + Kennedy, through an unmarked door on NW Davis St., geeks gather daily to pursue their projects as part of Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE). Last night the gathering included about 40 guests intent on hearing from Marshall Kirkpatrick of Read Write Web, one of the leading tech journalists in the [...]
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