communication. community. cognition.
On of the communication challenges for any business or organization is sticking with your core competency and staying on message. Below, you'll find an example of how to fail. ...unless there is something in tainted Krispy Kreme doughnuts that … [Continue reading]
The difference between fast food and cheap news. To understand why your newsroom is the way it is, you have to understand why the burger place down the street is the way it is. (I am posting this here so the next time someone asks, I can … [Continue reading]
(This is the first of the mcarp essays, written more than 10 years ago by Michael Carpenter, a broadcast journalism refugee who found the light... republished with permission.) Breaking Kayfabe I learned an interesting word on the Internet a … [Continue reading]
The web has always been a place for sharing rants, and now we can do it with instantaneous results. No, I'm not going to add (much) to the cacophony about Kevin Smith and Southwest Airlines, other than to say that his fame certainly juiced the … [Continue reading]
(the following is mine and mine alone, and does not in any way reflect opinions or viewpoints of my employer.) I understand when people get on indignant rants. You see something that is so clear to you, and you just feel like verbally slapping a few … [Continue reading]
Peyton Manning is a nice guy, with a self-deprecating and healthy sense of humor. But man, he looked positively evil on the sidelines of the Super Bowl. Some people started referring to him as "Satan Manning." Now, is he an intense competitor? … [Continue reading]
We live in an age where information is too available. We have more facts than we can assimilate or use, and very little context. One of the ways we manage to transmit all of this information comes from research done in "packing" of information. … [Continue reading]