2008

“The recipe for a successfully driven politician should...”
— Rick Perlstein on Richard...

Zipping Across the Canopy: perched eighteen stories above...

We are not alone.

Not A Bad View, Eh? Our balcony hangs over the surrounding...

Welcome to Costa Rica! Of the three flights that took us...

Orange Balloons Race Across the Web

Following in the footsteps of PMOG, Modernista and the upcoming RocketOn, the latest experiment in...

OC Register to Outsource to India

“Nine out of ten of the rich men of our country today,...”
— P.T. Barnum, The Art of Money...

General Motors: 50 Years of Flatline  [Article]

“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate...”
— Barack Obama [reblogged via...

The Summer of Heroes

“We must focus on mobile people, not mobile devices. In other...”
— Nadav Savio & Jared...

The State of Game Development

The State of Independent Film: "The Sky...

If the attendees to this year’s LA Film Festival Financing Conference were looking for an...

Web 2.0 World: one thousand “Web 2.0” logos form...

“This is my art, to interpret the world.”...

Pork Invaders - John McCain’s plan to galvanize...

The Customer is the Company: Threadless

“The real value in this equation is not content and...”
— Jeff Jarvis on the Associated...

Spore Evolves with Web Celebs

“People and Laws” - The Declaration of...

Life is Short for Online Videos

Given the vast supply of content and the power of search and social filters, you might expect that...

TIVO: Movie Ads Hold TV Auds

Spore: Today EA released a free creature creator to begin...

"Would You Rather?": Teen Edition

OTX’s latest Teen Topix study looks at the “either/or” media preferences of...

Hulu: The Home of Comedy?

Never screen a comedy in a large, stadium-seating megaplex.  Why?  A crowded theater is a petri dish...

“A lot of people are missing out by trying to build a big...”
— Mattias Miksche, CEO of...

Beauty and the Backslash: Immigration...

I’m really torn on this one. Our innovation-driven economy demands that we continue to import...

Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon charts the “most...

Gamers Sue EA Over 'Madden' Pricing

“The goal of the company is not to monetize everything, the...”
— Eric Schmidt, CEO Google

The Art of Argument

We all disagree, some simply do it better than others. In an essay entitled “How to...

“Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of...”
— Bill Gates at the 2008 World...

Webby Awards: Cue the Music

The 2008 Webby Award winners took to the stage last night to proclaim their thanks, hopes,...

Adapting Websites to Users

Gamers Gun for the Future of Warfare

U$D Origami: while the beleaguered dollar presents many...

Warren Buffet on Index Funds: "You Wanna...

This morning FORTUNE spilled the beans on a “friendly” $1,000,000 wager between...

Film Styles Affect Brain Activity

No Great Expectations

YouTube Gets Interactive With Video (On...

With the launch of YouTube Video Annotations this morning, the term “video games” may...

Viral Irony is Spelled MTV

I just love the irony surrounding the “behind the scenes” viral video mockumentary in...

MicroHoo: Corporate Penis Envy

Social Media in Plain (Vanilla) English

CommonCraft offers (in its characteristically uncommon style) a simple explanation of social media,...

Billboards That Look Back

“It’s pomposity on the part of studios to think that the...”
— David Weitzner, former head of...

Technically, Not a Recession [via BigPicture]

Live Commercials Reach Terminal Velocity

Pace Yourself with DailyLit

I tried DailyLit for a short while after it launched early last year, but quickly lost my way in the...

“So though you could argue that media is more plural than...”
— Jeff Jarvis on the future of...

Movie Scenes as Typography

FilmSchoolRejects has assembled an collection of impressive typography experiments which offer a...

“A transmedia project develops storytelling across multiple...”
— Nicoletta Iacobacci on the...

Six Degrees of Wikipedia: Jesus is Popular

I Will Gladly Give You $15 for $20 on...

Joystiq highlights a very peculiar promotion underway at Target, in which the retailer is offering...

What Constitutes a "View" in Online Video?

Memorial Day. [photo by DigitalAgent]

Mobile Banner Ads: Think Again

Branding Unbound points to a recent study by IAG which touts the “success” of mobile...

“Google is just a parasite. It doesn’t create content:...”
— Jim Cramer on why GOOG and...

“This is an age of experimentation as technology is rolling...”
— Phillipe Dauman, CEO Viacom

You're Hired... Now Quit!

Ahoy! Libertarian Ocean Colonies

Video Game Actors Want to Level Up

The New York Times has an interesting profile on Michael Hollick, the unknown actor currently...

Mapping the Bookshelves of Amazon

What do you get when you cross 735,323 books scraped from the Amazon database with the 10,316,775...

The Greatest Wealth-Creating Film of...

What was the greatest wealth-creating film of all time? The answer, according to economist and...

“Too often marketers treat video seeding as another medium...”
— Josh Warner, President of Feed...

The Devalued Currency of Celebrity

"Operation Amped" Gets Warriors Back in...

I’ve never been one for surfing, though I can certainly appreciate the zealous enthusiasm that...

Teens Opt for (Virtual) Summer Jobs

Rocket Man Takes to the Air: Former Swiss military pilot...

U.K. Releases Secret UFO Files

Brand Tags: Who Owns Your Brand?

With all of the effort and not-so-small fortunes that go into building a timeless brand, it’s...

Video Games Make Lousy Movies...

“Word of mouth is not created. Word of mouth is co-created....”
— the archives of Hugh McLeod

Shock and Awe-some: Lightning dances through the eruption of...

Rethinking CAPTCHA: The Power of the...

Each day we humans (yes you) collectively waste more than 550,000 hours decrypting slanted CAPTCHA...

The World of Film: Hollywood is one of America’s...

“The excellent thing, and good news, for publishers is that...”
— Patrick J. McGovern, Founder...

Lying is Bad, Posing is Criminal

Self-proclaimed “viral marketing agencies” be warned: the days of anonymously trolling ...

Facebook Apps “Just for Fun”? Consider this a...

The Complete Directory of Web 2.0

DisneyBots! Beginning in June, Disney will introduce...

Social Surplus and the Sitcom

If you’re looking to define the “critical technology” of the 20th century, Clay...

“If it’s a film or a book, you can do what you want. We seem...”
— Leslie Benzies, President of...

The Hollywood Reporter Gets a Facelift

Today The Hollywood Reporter unveils its new face with a comprehensive redesign of its print and...

Design and the Elastic Mind

Summer Blockbusters Get Not-So Rotten...

Amidst the hype and anticipation leading into this summer’s slate of action-packed...

The Interactive Artist

Jonathan Harris is an artist borne and inspired by the age of information, whose impressive work...

Liberals Link More Liberally… Literally.

Chicago Hijacks GTA4 Bus Ads

Digital Domain: From Hollywood to...

Hollywood special effects house Digital Domain — who has realized the effects for such...

Andrew Maynard’s CV-08 suburbanoid: a gargantuan robot...

“Arrested Development is doing better than all of the current...”
— Jason Kilar, CEO Hulu

Games for Heroes

A Penny Saved is a Penny Taxed... Now,...

Albert Einstein once remarked that “the hardest thing in the world to understand is the...

Silicon Valley vs. Hollywood

The New York Times offers an interesting take on the challenging marriage between Silicon Valley and...

Where (on Earth) is Waldo?

He’s baaack! A Vancouver-based artist is giving new life to the ever-elusive Waldo (no last...

Spoiler Alert!

We Need a Wikipedia for Data

Webby Awards: Official Honoree!

I don’t talk much about my day (and night) job, but this is too cool to pass up: the Mr....

“The surest, most lethal killer of strategic imagination is...”
— Umair Haque

What If J.J. Abrams Thought Like Everyone...

The subprime mortgage crisis… in technicolor!  [via...

John McCain: “We can be slow as well to give greatness...

Interactivity and Empowered Advertising

I love this recently launched “interactive” campaign for the UN Voices Project (by...

“Good enough isn’t.”
— Unknown

That Recliner Just Cost Your Retirement

Michael Mandel (at BusinessWeek’s Economics Unbound) posits an intriguing question from his...

Litigation Eye Test: Can you tell the difference between...

“Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your...”
— Georges Doriot

Google Introduces Gmail Paper

Issues: Kill the Penny!

Abe, we need to talk. This isn’t working anymore. I’ve been hiding my disdain for...

Hollywood’s Produced a Lot of Bad Eggs…

“If you think you know what’s going to happen, you are...”
— Fred Wilson

History’s Produced a Lot of Bad Eggs…

Call Me Ishmael?

It would appear that the popularity of Biblical names is back to par after a 80-year general decline...

“Hopefully with Pennsylvania’s help, she will be our next...”
— Chelsea Clinton (AKA...

Rockstar Gets Social, Adds...

Rockstar Games has announced two ambitious efforts to complement the experience of their next...

Programmer... or Serial Killer?

“If the news is that important, it will...

That quote – from a college student in a focus group – should be etched in granite and displayed...

Oddcast's 3D Video Star

“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is...”
— Bill Gates (TIME, 01/13/1996)

Vietnam War Memorial 2.0

After the disappointment of Rainbow Six Vegas 2, the...

The 10 Most Historically Inaccurate Movies of...

Nielsen: Blogging = Box Office

Nielsen PreView — a new, B2B research service “providing its members unique business and...

“If the web was a country, it’d be the 3rd largest nation in...”
— Conn Fishburn (@ SES NY),...

Video Games vs. Box Office (Gross Sales - in Billions). ...

From Captain to Capitalist: The Battle for...

South Park's Impressive New Hub...

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone just rolled out the requisite “beta”...

The Internet Fad - from 1995 to Present

From the 1995 archives of Newsweek comes this gem of “generational hubris” blinded...

“One of the worst things you can do is have your team work on...”
— GOOG’s Larry Page to the...