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Calling All Word Experts
I've got a couple posts brewing at the moment (one about amibguity and its relationship to binary code and another about <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/arts/22domi.html?ex=1319169600&en=eaab5856af9f9f4b&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=
October 25, 2006 |
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Binary Code and Ambiguity
There's been a question floating around in my mind for the last few weeks and I'm really curious whether anyone has any thoughts. I believe there is more ambiguity in our world than there ever was and I've got a few reasons why: <li
October 30, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 14 COMMENTS
Be Efficient Not Extensive
One of the cliches of advertising is that half of the money is wasted but no one knows which half. The line is always good for a chuckle at industry functions, but it's not funny. What kind of industry is built on inefficiency that extreme
October 1, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 13 COMMENTS
Noahup
In celebration of the other Noah being in New York City, we thought we'd throw what we were calling a Noahup (Noah + Meetup). Plan is we go to a bar and invite everyone we know to come along and chill, be
October 12, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 13 COMMENTS
That's Not Really [INSERT ART FORM HERE]
By Noah Brier and Charles Gallant Rock and roll is not music. How could it be? You've got a bunch of kids with shaggy hair playing instrumen
October 6, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 9 COMMENTS
50 Important Words
Three months ago I wrote the most important thing I've written on this website (and maybe ever). Funny enough it was probably the shortest entry I ever wrote and definitely not
October 9, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
What is Inspiration?
For a while now Piers has been asking people what inspires them. We were talking about it today and I had a few thoughts that felt worth sharing. I can't answer the inspiration question well because I'm ins
October 11, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 8 COMMENTS
Reach vs. Influence
David Armano was kind enough to invite me to a presentation he gave at Digitas about the success of his blog. It was fascinating to be in the audience for a presentation by a blogger to his co
October 19, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 7 COMMENTS
likemind ny+sf
This is an extra special likemind announcement: For the first time li
October 16, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 6 COMMENTS
The Private Life of Celebrities
Maxim is not a magazine I frequently read, but I was given a copy recently and I opened it up today. Inside is an interview with Vannessa Minnillo who apparently is someone I'm
October 15, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Why Curation is Better than Filtering
Don't mean to hang on the word tip for another entry, but this is something I've been thinking a lot about lately. For a while we've been talking about what all these bloggers and companies are doing online as 'filtering': They are helping
October 27, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Baking Marketing into Products
One of the things I've been saying for a while now is that there's a big opportunity for marketing agencies to enter the product development cycle earlier. The end goal would be to bake the marketing right into the product. To me it's a very desig
October 31, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 5 COMMENTS
Cold Friday
It's Friday and it's been a while since I pumped you chock full of links. So how about it? (As usual in no order.) Techdirt announces the Techdirt Insight Community. "Com
October 13, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS
Old Structures, New World
About three weeks ago I was at an event throw by David Berkowitz and the good people at 360i. Not surprisingly, one of the most impactful presentations of the day cam
October 9, 2006 | EMAIL | PRINT | 3 COMMENTS