09 Apr
Sometimes, the best way to cope and get what you want is to play the part.
29 Dec
The Internet Cocktail Database is the brainchild of Martin Doudoroff and Ted (Dr. Cocktail) Haigh. Unlike a lot of online cocktail sites, this is a repository for the serious imbiber.
Wordle is a very cool web tool that helps you map text into clouds (the kind that transform a jumble of words into design patterns, not the kind that hover over the planet and sometimes rain). Pictured here is a wordle map of chapter 2 in my book, Legendary Brands. Word maps using tag clouds [...]
There are many cultural indicators of bad times. Demand for Spam strikes me as one of the most interesting. I’m not sure what I find more shocking — the fact that more people are buying Spam or the fact that the production line turns out 149,500 cans of spam a day. I ate a lot [...]
I’m a big Apple nerd and this post is about the new ‘Genius’ feature in the latest release of iTunes. As I fiddled with it more and more, I decided to scan the web and see what others are saying. The reviews are mostly positive. But a few reviewers discovered the same flaw I accidentally [...]
The (maybe not so) latent nerd in me still gets fired up about NASA and the space program. These photos of a recent Discovery launch are a great insider’s look at how the orbiter is assembled, prepped and launched.
I’m fascinated by the NASA brand. It has such a rich narrative legacy, and yet in recent [...]
I’ve been at it again — serving as a pundit for the branding world. This time it was on the subject of the Olympics and sponsorship. After decades of evolution, many brands are still hoping for nirvanna simply by association, but there’s more to leveraging Olympic equity than paying a green’s fee.
No. This is not a tribute to Zsa Zsa Gabor. But close. I went to a club in Manhattan today (which will remain nameless so that I don’t get hate mail) for a four-hour planning meeting. This place, embedded surreptitiously within the streets of America’s cultural capitol, is trapped in the 1950’s. Guests are required [...]
Girl Employed
My daughter is quite good with my iPhone. And a pink backpack. And the hustle and bustle of navigating airports.
I confess. I’m in love with Sandy. She’s smart. She’s witty. She’s organized. And she just seems to have my every need in mind. I’m smitten. Who is this home-wrecking vixen? Well, she’s a virtual girl Friday. Check her out.
So here’s the short version of the story. I pushed the new iPhone firmware to my [...]
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