communication. community. cognition.
Here is a theory about our sluggish economic recovery: The old time-frames for bust-to-boom are no longer operative templates. Recessions used to take a long time to play out, because industries didn’t have the moment-to-moment vertical … [Continue reading]
How could you not love the best of the Super Bowl ads, the Ram truck ad featuring the voice of Paul Harvey? Brett Arends at CBS MarketWatch wrote a terrific parody of the spot. For maximum effect, he asks you to read it in the voice of Paul … [Continue reading]
Adjectives are empty calories, and adverbs the lazy writer's prejudice against verbs. — Ike Pigott (@ikepigott) January 30, 2013 … [Continue reading]
I just got this is my email today -- and then I got another one just like it. The quick rule is you should always check a link to make sure it's sending you where it is advertising. You can do this simply by hovering over a link, and looking at … [Continue reading]
If a picture is worth a thousand words, here are three you can share with your friends who obsess about the debates. All in good fun, of course. … [Continue reading]
When my company Twitter account gets new followers, I get notifications. And sometimes I look across the names to see just who is following us, and why. The twitter bio for this account piqued my curiosity: Apparently, she is connected to a … [Continue reading]
There's a new tool that checks a sample of a Twitter account's followers and determines how "real" the audience is: Active followers Inactive followers Fake accounts Enter a Twitter handle, and you get a breakdown like this: … [Continue reading]
