The art of self-tracking.
It was one thing to know where I was going. It was a totally different experience to know how far I had been, how much further I needed to go, what my expected time of arrival was, how long I had stopped for and what my avera…
Dear Tom,
It has been a while since we last did an event together, but I was just thinking of you yesterday and I felt compelled to write you this note. I don’t think I ever told you this, but over a decade ago, I took a job as a Director of Marketin…
Well, is the Web dead?
Of course, the Web isn’t dead, but it is changing in ways that many of us have (sadly) been ignoring. As more and more brands still struggle with the browser-based Web (and this includes everything from website development to so…
Are you fascinated by humanity?
Great ideas happen when we come together as a group of people. This is why the role of our cities in our society plays such a critical and fascinating role. It’s true, that everything good about humanity probably comes …
At what point will the proverbial levee break?
Marketers are busy telling their clients to start producing content or suffer the wrath of becoming irrelevant. My hand is raised and my head is bowed down in shame. Content needs to be created for a capt…
Episode #300 of Six Pixels of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast is now live and ready for you to listen to. This is also episode #21 of Across The Sound 2.0.
Joseph Jaffe is widely regarded as one of the top Marketing Bloggers (Jaffe Juice) and Pod…
You need to wrestle (deeply) with what you are about to see.
Since I attended this past year’s TED conference, I can’t get the dinner conversation I had with Sherry Turkle out of my mind. With each passing day, as I get further and further involved in…
I nearly got kicked out of a furniture store yesterday.
Apparently, I broke a very strict rule of "no photography" while looking to make my purchases. Do you understand why this rule is in place? I’m going to guess that it’s because a compet…
The art of marketing is a fascinating beast.
Last week, I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote address at The Art of Marketing in Toronto. With over 1500 business professionals in attendance, I shared the stage with people like Martin Li…
Welcome to Generation Flux.
The January 2012 cover story of Fast Company magazine was all about Generation Flux. You’ve head of Gen X, Gen Y and more, but what is Generation Flux? Our business world has been through some tumultuous times: Recessions, …
The robots have landed.
It should come as no surprise to you that some of the traffic to your websites and mobile apps are not a real human being. There are spiders out there crawling websites to index them, there are malicious hackers poking and prod…
There is a ton of great stuff that you should be reading.
The first quarter of this year is coming to an end, and there has been a plethora (yes, big word!) of great books for you to read and enjoy.
10 New Books Worth Checking Out (in alphabetical or…
Are the days of measuring page views as an advertising metric slowly (or quickly) coming to an end?
When banner ads first came on the Internet (we now call it "display advertising"), I remember thinking to myself, "is this the best we c…
Is your head buried in your lap?
After attending the TED 2012 conference in Long Beach, California last week, I could not help but think about how pervasive technology and media is in our lives. Surprisingly, I have not been thinking about it in the b…
There’s been a lot of talk about “the cloud” when it comes to technology and IT in the past few years.
It’s a revolution as big as the advent of the microprocessor and just as relevant as the desktop computer. If you’ve had to sit through a technolog…
