I don’t know who still reads poetry these days, in this age of shorter,faster and ever more slapstick online video clips. I still do. God knows I need to, in order to tolerate the snappy online videos. Here is a nice one by Robert Bly’s in the New Yorker Wanting Sumptuous Heavens: Poetry: The New [...]
October 31, 2007
I stumbled upon an experiment by the creative team at a San Francisco interactive marketing agency. They set themselves the task of creating a video that will go viral on YouTube. Here is what they found out: Making the Mundane Viral: A YouTube Experiment And you can see the video they made here — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1CBXGp9s9Y By the [...]
October 31, 2007
Have you noticed that people don’t really watch TV on TV anymore? It is little surprise that TV networks are scrambling to re-invent themselves. More often than not, they burn a lot of cash and get themselves entangled in knots. Throwing money at the problem is not the solution. Starting from scratch could [...]
October 31, 2007