Latest entry in my Excellent Media Experiences - introduction and complete index here. The most recent prior entry covered the arrival of cable TV. Nobody misses the…

Continue reading → EME Part VIII: Open web, early money

Hartford Courant, 2000 The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey — Random House, $24.95 Was Gilbert Bland only in…

Continue reading → The Island of Lost Maps 

*Before the Internet “People and places were websites.” That thought wouldn't have made any sense in 1979, standing in the showroom of my local hi-fi…

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Absurd queries, corporate comms evolution “…the deadpan and gullible responses from major corporations, especially when read aloud, bring on fits of laughter.” The New York…

Continue reading → 30 years of prank letters — and what we learned

Competitors will take apart your product. They'll reverse-engineer your process. Almost overnight, they'll duplicate your innovations, match your price, and mimic your services. But the…

Continue reading → The best and only advantage

The phrase 'thought leader' has become corporate jargon at its least compelling, often signaling more about someone's branding than their actual contributions. The phrase "thought…

Continue reading → This post contains zero thought leadership

SOUTHWEST SPIRIT 2011 Future-Present Tense Mobile Lifestyles Are Ready to Accelerate In his 2002 thriller “Minority Report,” Steven Spielberg envisioned a future powered by fantastically…

Continue reading → The future arrived right on schedule

Remembering Paul "Pableaux" Johnson one year after his death A winter storm arrived this weekend, a burst of arctic air and frozen rain that shut…

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Indiana completes the single greatest turnaround in college football history and caps a perfect season in CFP title game thriller over Miami Fernando Mendoza leaps.…

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* Before the Internet Cable television is near death. Household penetration peaked above 80% in 2011. By last year more than 80 million subscribers had…

Continue reading → Excellent Media Experiences* VII: Cable TV