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As much as I don’t want to like it, you have to admit it looks good.

I’d forgotten all about these videos and then they came up in a conversation the other day and I had to hunt around for them on Youtube…

I <3 Douglas Rushkoff. Here he is at Web 2.0 Expo in September talking about the concept of “free” in the digital world and what this shift means to our society. He kind of meanders here and there but makes some really interesting points on money and how the open source trend and creative commons [...]

Ok, I have been posting a lot of video lately which is kind of a cheat but I have been busy doing cool stuff I swear! So in the meantime here is Google’s Eric Schmidt saying some very prescient things about mobile and cloud computing:
Thanks Ajit!

I am on the fence about AT&T’s Seth the Blogger guy approach – I think he’s trying too hard to emulate the Mac dude. Or AT&T is trying too hard to be Apple. Or whatever. In any case I think saying they are solely responsible for the smartphone revolution is a bit of a stretch. [...]

OK, I am really late in posting this since actual work is keeping me so busy but I’d be remiss in not doing a post on it. I think that the “all mobile sites suck” paradigm is flawed – the problem is that most brands are trying to design a site that services both 2.5 [...]

… and because I just can’t get it out of my head. I wonder if people who aren’t Catholic realize why this so funny?

… at Digiday Mobile last week here in NYC. In case you don’t have time to watch this three minute documentary here are the basics: they text a lot, look at their phone (usually iPhone) a lot and don’t like intrusive advertising. Funny ads are good. They don’t make many actual calls. And they think [...]

“I see no reason why the direct response division of agencies should be separate from the main agencies. Some of you may remember when television people in agencies where kept separate – wasn’t that idiotic? I expect to see the direct response people become an integral part of all agencies – you have more [...]