One of the things I used to hate the most about marketing was talking to marketers about marketing. It just seemed like these people never could see outside the box of ‘apply formula X and shrug helplessly if it doesn’t work.’ Rather than being proactive and employing sound business strategies while capitalizing on the uniqueness »
I had a feeling that I’d want to add a bit more to what I wrote yesterday, as it’s a complicated subject filled with a lot of tangents (me?? tangents??) and, quite frankly, emotion. The sad thing is, none of this is exceptionally new, and it usually follows a predictable pattern: person does something that »
So there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over in the Flash/dev community over a presentation that was given at Flashbelt; unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend (so I can’t speak from firsthand experience about what happened), but I wanted to chime in on some of what’s being said – and not being said – »
It’s no big surprise that I’m a huge fan of Pixar movies; they’ve mastered the art of making movies with more humanity in them than most movies that actually contain humans, and their visual brilliance is second to none. But at some point you’ve got to figure that their magic will wear off; red tape »
I looked at the Caller ID and saw a name I wasn’t expecting; the conversation quickly turned from polite pleasantries to an offer that was too tempting to refuse: riding in the annual Rolling Thunder event for Memorial Day. I’d bumped into my stepfather’s longtime friend at my night job, and when he decided to »
A lot of people have been asking me why I hated the new Star Trek movie so much; there’s some sort of mass hysteria created if there’s a hint of suggestion that this movie is not the best thing evah (at least until, say, Angels & Demons or Terminator: Salvation, etc.) – and anyone who »
I’ll be speaking at this year’s CF_United conference in August – details about the conference can be found on their site (cfunited.com, I believe). As usual, my presentation focuses a little more on the business/workflow side of things, but in lieu of my usual management or marketing/video/training/content-centric spiels, this one focuses on process improvement by »
I’m at Reagan National airport right now, and will be here for the next two hours. I had booked a flight yesterday to head down to Florida to attend a funeral service; the death was unexpected, so the arrangements were made at the last minute. When I booked the flight, I chose a seat out »
Watchmen is not a story for everyone. Unlike the traditional comic archetypes of a ‘hero,’ the characters are unlikeable; they aren’t empathetic or relatable on more than a superficial level, which is of course the idea – likewise, they can’t relate well to people, events, relationships – or, in the case of Dr. Manhattan, time »
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