Designer, user-centric experience architect, photographer, writer, and community consultant, Derek Powazek wants people to stop saying "user-generated content." I say consumer generated content (CGC), myself, but Derek would likely object to that too. Calling the beautiful, amazing, brilliant things people create online "user-generated content" is like sliding up to your lady, putting your arm around her and …
Something’s In The Air
Thanks to podcasts and streaming radio, we're starting to learn what brands sound like. Now, thanks to ScentAir, we will begin to learn what brands smell like. According to Influx Insights, ScentAir has concocted over 1500 smells, has over 1,000 clients and has doubled its staff in the past year. Retail stores, hotels, and casinos are tapping into the idea that your consumer experience is based on all five …
“Blog” Is Losing Its Meaning
Hugh MacLeod considers the difficult time some journalists have had coming to terms with blogs. As I'm fond of saying, blogs are good for making things happen indirectly etc. But journalists seem to have a problem getting their head around it. "Indirectly" is too foreign to them. They're too used to living in the "directly" universe: Wake up. Commute to office. Write stuff. Take abuse from Editor. Collect meagre …
Watching Big Brother
From USA TODAY: Home TV screens just keep getting bigger. And there's no end in sight. Panasonic pitched a tent outside the New York Stock Exchange yesterday to show off the biggest high-definition plasma screen yet. At 103 inches, it's an inch bigger than versions being produced by Samsung and LG. Panasonic vice president Andrew Nelkin says the new screen weighs 400 pounds. If you buy one, and have a wall big enough …
Goodfellow Is
Good geeks disdain patent law. Geoff Goodfellow is a such a geek. According to the New York Times, Mr. Goodfellow had a light-bulb moment in 1982, when he came up with the idea of sending electronic mail messages wirelessly to a portable device — like a BlackBerry. Only back then, there was no BlackBerry; his vision centered on pagers. He eventually did get financial backing to start a wireless e-mail service in the …
Blogging The Buckeye State
Weblogs, Inc. has gone local with their first metro blog. The metro they chose to explore is the great state of Ohio—really an amalgamation of several metros. One of the better posts is from Hannah Blumenfeld. It's about Anabelle's, a dive bar in Akron, a.k.a. Aktucky. I discovered that the bar's cigarettes were housed in a converted vending machine! I'd seen machines with PBR instead of Pepsi and Coors instead of …
Referential V. Experiential
Greg Knauss picked up the Kottke.org slack for Jason Kottke, while Jason was off on honeymoon. The experience led Knauss to the following observations. There are two kinds of bloggers, referential and experiential. Kottke is one. I, now two weeks too late in realizing this, am another. The referential blogger uses the link as his fundamental unit of currency, building posts around ideas and experiences spawned …
“Victory Records Is A Lifestyle Company” Doesn’t Sound Very Indie
Valley Wag is running "a purported email exchange" between Tony Brummel, head of indie label Victory Records, and Steve Jobs. Here's how Brummel came at it: Victory Records is a lifestyle company and a brand that has always marched to the beat of its own drum and operated contrary to industry standards. That is a major reason why we are the #1 Independent label in the country. The entire music industry and many music …
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