Archive for February, 2009
Web 2.0 Meets Creativity 1.0
Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
In a follow up to my post on Twitter, I just saw a terrific illustration of my point. My point, again, is that Web 2.0 does not make you creative. Web 2.0 is just a bunch of tools that allows you to broadcast your creativity quickly and effectively. For example, this is a simple, effective, [...]
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Hispanic Unemployment Below General Market
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009
The Pew Hispanic Center released a new report earlier this month that is consistent with some of my earlier posts (Hispanics present a promising alternative to the overleveraged consumer and Unemployment decreases among Hispanics) about the resiliency of the Hispanic market vis-a-vis the general market. According to the Pew Hispanic Center’s “Unemployment Rises Sharply Among [...]
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Twitter! Twitter! Twitter! Twitter!
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
There is a scene in the movie “Being John Malkovich” where John Malkovich goes through a secret trap door into his own mind. Being in his own head, of course everything is about himself. All of the people in the world look just like him and the only thing anyone can say is “Malkovich.” Entire [...]
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Not a journalist
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
In a follow-up to my post earlier this week on blogging and journalism, I was just filling out an online form that asked if I was with the media. I thought about checking “Yes” because I’m a blogger and might actually write about something this particular organization has to say, but then I thought better [...]
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A Lesson in Blogs
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Here’s an important lesson in Web 2.0: Bloggers are not journalists. At least this blogger isn’t a journalist. I’m a guy who works in marketing and posts something on a blog every once in a while. I have no editor, no fact checkers, and no policies of any sort (my wife corrects my grammar sometimes). [...]
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