March 2011
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Thanks Richard, for getting to the heart of what is happening in digital right now. It’s all about real connections - for consumers & brands, not about the shiny object. The new tools that can easily allow consumers to connect are those that will succeed.
-DigitalFLashNYC
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SXSWi - Everything old is new again
The air was filed with digital innovation as Mirrorball’s Michael Blatter and I arrived in Austin - and SXSW hadn’t even started yet. The entrepreneur who rented us our share-house used his iPhone to order and to pay for a pedicab with an app called Uber. The pedi-cabist got his order via iPhone mounted in front of him and tapped it to accept payment. OK!
At SouthBy, itself hundreds upon...
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Charlie Sheen’s addiction drags us down the FameUs...
The literary critic Lionel Trilling predicted in his 1972 book Sincerity and Authenticity that our culture would come to a point in which the only truly authentic artist was an insane one.
If all you have to rebel against is “whatever you got,” then rebellion for rebellion’s sake turns against your own humanity.
How seductive is open-ended rebellion when it first blooms in the heart of a healthy,...
