Not like this. (A near death experience in Brooklyn).
Choking on peanut butter is no fun. Eating peanut butter with a spoon doesn’t sound like dicing with death, but it was for me.
A most unamerican thing on 5th Avenue.
I kept reminding myself to look up in Manhattan. Even a tourist is quick to forget just how blessedly high and mighty and vertical and vertiginous everything is. But sometimes, even in New York City, it pays to look down instead. Or perhaps not. You decide. As my daughters and …
Advertising characters.
I thought George and I would talk, by which I mean bitch, about advertising. But we didn’t. Turns out he’s far too interesting for that. We talked about New York City, Brooklyn, the New York Subway, daughters, history, museums, art, blogging, restaurants (Chinese and Italian), mentoring, sadness, and doing the …
The value of success depends on the degree of difficulty
Digital communication is a lot like Olympic diving. The value of success depends on the degree of difficulty. If I successfully execute an easy dive I get fewer points than I would for successfully executing a more difficult dive. There are lots of tempting easy dives in the world of …
Literacy and numeracy on Medium
I published a post on Medium that I would normally have posted on this blog. In just 6 days that one post on Medium received nearly four times as many views as this entire blog receives in an average month. The post in question was my sixth on Medium since …
Feed by M T Anderson. Book review.
Feed was recommended to me by Robin Sloan. He of Snarkmarket, he of the Fish Tap Essay, he the author, he the self-styled media inventor. (He also recommended it to the other two hundred and eighty four thousand or so people who follow him on Twitter.) His tweet (linked above) …
Digital disintegration.
Integration, by which I mean integrated marketing communications, is not all it’s cracked up to be. Indeed it’s in danger of cracking up. And this crazy little thing called digital is largely to blame. The front end of integrated communication – the carefully orchestrated end result that gets seen by …
Finding Nemo and why shared problems are better than specified solutions.
Jumping out of a window in a plastic bag filled with water, or feigning death in order to be flushed down a toilet doesn’t seem like much of a choice. But desperate times call for desperate measures and, if you are a wild fish trapped in a tank in a …
CentUp. A good idea and an idea for good.
This blog has a new favourite button. CentUp is a simple, smart idea that enables small acts of kindness over the internet. And hopefully enough people will eventually sign up to enable lots of small acts to make a big difference. The idea is this simple… When you sign up …