Category: observations


Food deserts in urban areas

Smart Mobs ran a great piece recently on urban food deserts—vast areas in urban environments where food is virtually non-existent or at the very least difficult to find. This interested me greatly as I have long held the opinion that no one will move back to downtown Detroit—despite huge expenditures on trendy lofts and entertainment […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Monday, May 12th, 2008

Social Media Quotes

Some great quotes from others that have been rumbling around my head recently:
“While the overall goal of marketing remains the same, the advent of social media has changed the role of the marketer from a broadcaster pushing out messaging and materials to an aggregator who brings together content, enables collaboration, and builds and participates in […]

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Posted by Davezilla on Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Link round-up (4/7/2008)

Google is Your Home Page
Web Site Feedback as Your Secret Online Marketing Tool
Brand vs. Usability
Study: There is No Tipping Point, Blog Readers Are Skeptical
“Free” is Killing Us–Blame The VCs
10 Ways the Internet (As We Know It) Will Die
I’m Over Twitter
The Web Beyond the Desktop
Economic Impact of Word-of-Mouth Calculated Using Net Promoter Model
Finding is the new […]

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Posted by Chris on Monday, April 7th, 2008

We’re not targets

Well, I’m not, and I bet you’re not either. Yet much of modern advertising is based on the premise than you can lump people together, based on their age - or an age range, which makes even less sense - sex and income. Watch the NCAA basketball tournament, and you’ll see all the money wasted […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Link round-up (3/11/2008)

Welcome to another edition of “Chris can’t stay away from his over-stuffed feed reader” — on today’s menu is a serving of 10 delicacies culled from a week’s worth of multiple-windows with dozens-of-tabs, lightly sprinkled with banal commentary and liberal use of the <em> tag.

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Posted by Chris on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008