The Internet

We Know Drama, Not User Experience

10 January 2012

Warning: Two marketing posts back-to-back, you guys. I’m sorry. I don’t watch a lot of TV on an actual TV these days and most of the TV that I do watch is time-shifted. We live in the future, you know. Instead, I watch a lot of programming on my iPad. Between Hulu and Netflix and [...]

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The Year of the QR Code: 20Never

6 January 2012

Warning: This post is at least tangentially related to my job as an online marketer. You may wish to avoid it. About three years ago, I radically redesigned my business cards. This was the first card I designed for myself in the wake of pink kind of accidentally becoming my ‘personal brand’* color. I can [...]

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Creedthoughts

14 November 2011

When Doogie Hower had a blog, it wasn’t connected to the Internet. I don’t know that a lot of the people watching Doogie Howser, M.D. knew what the Internet was or imagine the thing that it would become. It was just a journal, but we knew that it was hipper and more modern that Kevin [...]

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Jefferson Reads: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline

8 August 2011

Note: A copy of Ready Player One was provided to the author for review. The past decade has been the Age of the Geek – studios pander to the Comic-Con crowd, Internet buzz can destroy a movie’s opening weekend and nostalgia drives marketing. For every dyed-in-the-wool geek creator or personality, there’s at least two or [...]

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11 January 2011

So, I’m reading Javier Grillo-Marxuach’s “My Year Without Star Wars” at the same time as I’m reading Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Vortex, the sixth part of a nine-part series of Expanded Universe novels in which a sixty-something Luke Skywalker and his teen son fight a Cthuloid space-monster who is a weird, tentacle-y triptych [...]

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Read This.

26 December 2010

“all i know is that they always fail to bring me joy. after many years and repeat viewings in so vast a variety of media, the sad truth is i will probably never understand why they were made, what they are intended to represent, or why i should care.” TV and comic scribe Javier Grillo-Marxuach [...]

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The Face of Evil

20 December 2010
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Misattributions

13 December 2010

Thanks to Dan, I saw this slightly incomprehensible image today: It is, of course, a photo of Gandalf, featuring a quote by Yoda, which has been attributed to Albus Dumbledore.  The thing is a trinitarian artifact of nerd blasphemy that defies belief (except that, on the Internet, unbelievability is inversely proportional to its likelihood of [...]

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…With Chaotic Good Tendencies

8 December 2010

(click to giant-size) I’ve been quite entertained by what Christoper Bird has been doing with Alignment Chart week, and wanted to make one of my own. I thought about re-doing the Glee chart, because it’s severely flawed (Rachel Berry is unabashedly evil), but figured it would be more fun to tackle Leverage, which is a) [...]

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On Comic Con

13 October 2010

1. I go to New York Comic Con every year – have gone as long as there has been one – and I think it’s great to be in one place with a lot of people who are passionate about the things that you’re passionate about in an environment where you can celebrate that stuff, [...]

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