Medium is the message

My friend Shane Shennan recently applied the infamous Marshall McLuhan quote about television, “the medium is the message”, to… notebooks. In his post, Mangle Your Moleskine!, Shane explains how the type/cost of the notebook you use influences your...

Twitter culture club

I had lunch with Jay Moonah and we got into a conversation where we hypothesized young children using private Twitter and Flickr accounts for keeping in touch with relatives living in different geographical areas (we also joked around with the idea of what Twitter...

Squeaky wheel gets the grease?

Here’s a reply I left on Jay Moonah’s blog where he ponders if the sudden high volume of new Twitter users potentially could cause its demise. Thought I’d share my comment here as well: It’s a very “traditional media” way of...

Twitter popularity contests

Twitter is officially mainstream now that all the celebrities (well, their marketing team I’m sure) are using it and something about Ashton Kutcher challenging CNN on who gets the most followers? Um… I’m sure there’s loads of engagement for...