Tag Archive: social media
The Post-Barnum Era
Do you think I’m right when I observe that we’re all required to inform all the people, all the time? The audience is now in command. Their interest drives traffic. Their research exposes fraud. Their complaints turn hot into not, and their enthusiasm turns home businesses into powerhouses. SEO has a bigger impact than CEO. And there’s a fool fired every minute.
Kickback kick-in-the-pants
I’m a joker. But jokes in print are not the same as jokes told in person, eyeball to eyeball. I have learned how to wink in video, but have had mixed results trying to wink in print. (I wish I could bottle some of the lightning of Mark Twain, Garrison Keillor, or Penelope Trunk!) A…
We have two lifelines
I’ve been thinking about what the recent events with Twitter (Iran, Michael Jackson) tell us about the Internet and how we can or should relate to it. The human nervous system seems to me like the ideal metaphor. Our nerves are tied together in multiple ways, but every sensory input can have two dimensions of…
How amazing it is, when a People speak
I take a break from commenting on the business of communication to reflect on the real power of communication as we all watched it unfold in Egypt. That power is, of course, the will of human beings. It’s a beautiful thing to see people stand up against despotism. Our own revolution started that way, and…
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