Archive for November, 2008
Modern Fears
Some new phobias I have been working on personal solutions for:
- Tabdevotophobia – n. Fear of closing internet browser tabs
- Photogonophobia – n. Fear of deleting photo memory card files
No Economic Slump for Social Media App Ads
Full Video Here (trying to get the AdAge videos to embed, but no luck so far)
National AAF Convention Interview
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzyFzSkcbwk
My first Youtube appearance was more painless than I expected. The interview was done by Ad2 Tampa (young advertising club in Tampa) at a national advertising conference I attended, as President of Ad2 Charlotte, this past summer. It was a great event and pretty fun to be interviewed for their AdCast show.
America ‘08
In honor of a big day.
Newspapers Are Not Dying
If newspapers are indeed prehistoric animals, dinosaurs if you will, and a global disaster has hit (be it asteroid or volcanic bedlam) extinction is but one option. Things are bad and some papers are dying, but I do not see the end of the medium.
Newspapers have indeed grown too fat and comfortable with their corner of the media spectrum. Few would deny this. The species that can evolve and adopt will survive, with many changes to their DNA. Publications are moving pretty damn fast at the moment to try and mend their ways. Many magazines and newspapers are teaming up with each other, sharing newsrooms and staff where possible, trimming all employee ranks, bringing in user content, and empowering journalists to be their own full fledged media outlets (writer, photographer, editor, producer in one).
Any individual can now rise up from no where and become their own media empire today. The speed, efficiency, and simplicity of the tools that allow this will only increase. Every media outlet needs to be more mobile, versatile, and eager to evolve.
Much of the print media is in global disaster mode. The resources are dwindling and they are trying to figure out which mutations will allow them to survive. The true dinosaurs will die out. Those best able to adapt to today’s evolving media will survive. No word yet on how many are really Dinosaurs.
