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The Tablet Future of Magazines 19 Jul 2012 | 02:44 am
Traditional magazines have momentum on the iPad. Hearst and Conde Nast each report about half a million subscribers across their magazines, and both expect to surpass a million subscribers by the end ...
The Hardware Startup Movement 16 May 2012 | 08:50 am
In light of Internet Week and Walkabout NYC, Undercurrent’s office has been buzzing about local startups. The roster of tech startups that are opening their doors on 5/18 are a familiar ilk: SaaS comp...
The Brand-created Content Diet 27 Mar 2012 | 06:56 am
I’ve noticed that more of my daily content is coming from brands. While brands still compete with web media publishers, bloggers, newspapers, TV, and millions of other content creators (like me) for a...
Introspection from the new media industry 22 Mar 2012 | 04:44 pm
I’ve been conducting some research on the future of new media properties like Gawker, Demand Media, Federated Media, Observers, AOL, and HuffPo. One thing that I’ve noticed is how much self-directed ...
Expensive Recommendations from 22 Year Olds 8 Mar 2012 | 06:09 am
Robin Hanson of Overcoming Bias has an awesome article on consultants, young college grads, and snake oil (bolding mine): “The puzzle is why firms pay huge sums to big name consulting firms, when the...
Digital Mimicry and Lateral Thinking 15 Feb 2012 | 07:19 am
A few months ago, I came across a site from the Biomimicry Institute called AskNature. Some insanely intelligent people have compiled a database of 1400 “strategies” that organisms use to survive agai...
Tools vs. content 28 Nov 2011 | 06:48 pm
I’ve been thinking a lot about tools recently, the kind that startups are so famous for making. There’s been so much talk about brands (and agencies) to behave more like startups. Part of this means ...
The no bullshit strategist 25 Aug 2011 | 09:00 am
Back when I graduated, I’d never heard of a strategist. Companies recruited at Michigan for planners, consultants, and producers, but never a title as ambiguous as strategist. And while not as popular...
Adaptive Path and Finding Good Ideas 18 Jul 2011 | 03:09 am
My last post describes how the best ideas are kinda like viable startups. That is, approaching a client project is kinda like discovering the initial vision for a company. Problem: this is an insanel...
On good ideas 27 Apr 2011 | 03:54 pm
Some of my favorite ideas, from work or my head, have a certain DNA. The exciting ones, where I think, “YES, do shit like that!” are inspired by a small class of startups, niche websites, communities...
