Joel’s going to talk about how today’s technology allows one to find out so much about their family history, maybe too much sometimes. Here’s Joel:
Online tools make reclaiming family history exponentially easier. However, the journey into one’s family history often reveals family secrets and lost knowledge that can tell you more about yourself than you may want to know - the good, the bad, the ugly.
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The saga of Mad Men and Twitter continues to grow. Check out this site: We Are Sterling Cooper, which is chronicling the story as it happens. Here’s their manifesto:
Fan fiction. Brand hijacking. Copyright misuse. Sheer devotion. Call it what you will, but we call it the blurred line between content creators and content consumers, and it’s not going away. We’re your biggest fans, your die-hard proponents, and when your show gets cancelled we’ll be among the first to pass around the petition... Read Full Story
Somewhat along the lines of being followed on Twitter by TV characters, PSFK has a couple of interesting posts on social media worth checking out:
FriendFeed lets you pose like you’re following someone when you really aren’t.
What exactly to all these Facebook status updates and Twitterings add up to? Does this Ambient Social Activity provide real benefits? What does all this passively active behaviour mean for brands? (The second link is to Noah Brier).
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Don and Betty Are Watching You
By now, you’ve probably seen the various posts about the Mad Men-Twitter hooha. You’ve even seen the posts suggesting you’ve probably already seen the various posts about the Mad Men - Twitter hooha.
Now I can add my only little piece to this marketing meme. After replying to DJ Francis’ post on the subjet, I now am being followed on Twitter by one of the Mad Men characters. DJ then had one too. Somebody out there is monitoring the online conversations pretty... Read Full Story
Here’s another Interesting New York speaker I’m looking forward to, Faris Yakob, whose talk is entitled: Ideas are New Combinations: A history of recombinant culture, from Locke to Linux:
“Everything is made up of mashed up other things: the philosophy of mash ups from John Locke, cut ups, remixing, jungle music, girl talk, and reality remixing.”
Bad hair day, Faris?
That’s worth the price of admission right there. And any guy with a Facebook avatar like this (on left), well you just know... Read Full Story
So of course by now you know all about Interesting New York, the event scheduled for Sept. 13 that is sure to be fun, thought provoking and chock full of cool people. Cool people like Noah Brier (yes, THAT Noah Brier). Here’s what he’s planning on sharing:
“In March I taught myself PHP and I’m pretty sure there’s a few basic ideas of web programming that are worth sharing.”
A typically unassuming and modest proposal from Mr. Brier. You know that he’s going to be insightful and entertaining... Read Full Story
Look out, it's Peter Kim!
Check out the great little give and take between Peter Kim and John Moore of Brand Autopsy. It all kicked off with Dave Balter and his World of Mouth Manual II. Peter called him out for creating an Ego Trap that was enabled by bloggers like Rohit Bhargava, John Jantsch of the influential Duct Tape Marketing and John Moore among others.
Well, let the fireworks begin. Read the comments to Peter’s Anti-Balter Ego Trap post, it’s a who’s who of marketing bloggers... Read Full Story
Mac on the mic - photo Justin Stephens (NY Times Magazine)
John McEnroe is a unique American sports icon. Brash and opinionated he was liked and disliked in equal measure during his career. But those rough edges have been his greatest asset over the years. He’s learned to laugh at himself and has developed other interests, from art and music to remaining a fixture in the media, both tennis and non-tennis related.
McEnroe has developed a terrific Deeply Immersive Narrative Universe (DINU... Read Full Story
There are a lot of opportunities for brands at live golf events like The Barclays
I went to the Barclays golf tournament today, the first time I’ve been to a legitimate pro golf event. It was an interesting experience and provoked a lot of lively conversation with my friend Eelco van der Noll, who works for Momentum, a global marketing agency.
In no particular order, here were some of topics we discussed:
There seemed to be a lot of sponsors of the event, including MasterCard and Gillette... Read Full Story
