A couple of big things are happening together. The threshold has flattened for anyone to make quality video, and to distribute it everywhere. For indie filmmakers distribution has always been the bugabear: How do I screen my film for an audience? How do I attract an audience? How do they find me? No more. You can […]
The weird and disgusting spectacle of the Manti Te’o love affair with an online “ghost” he thought was his girlfriend continues to unfold. Nasty and diabolical motivations like sexual obsession and infantile exploitation are seeping up in the media. A hoaxer – or obsessed stalker – co-opted a young woman’s image from the Internet to represent a […]
A tech-wise friend used to say that if Apple was top of the news in Silicon Valley, there wasn’t much going on (about.me/gwhiting). That was then. Before iPhone. This is now. All is changed. In recent years the Valley has shifted focus seismically: from Big to the Personal, to the user, the individual. From Enterprise […]
…is.. is.. Well, it seems to me, it’s an understanding of how people perceive messages and take up information. If you check Twitter right now, it’ll be pretty easy to find thousands of people describing themselves as “social media experts.” Actually, for communications and marketing creative types, you’re probably already there. If your understanding of […]
