Category Archives: Comm 597
Story Trumps Technology
When Bill Clinton won his come-from-behind bid for president of the United States in 1992, his campaign manager, James Carville, kept the “Boy Governor” on message and on task with a banner that hung in Clinton’s Arkansas campaign headquarters. … Continue reading
Evolution of the New York Times
The New York Times. Four little words with such big meaning. Smart. Lengthy. Investigative. Incisive. Print. Paper. Irrelevant? Mmmm, not so fast. While everyone is writing the obituary for the nation’s newspapers — and, to be fair, those same papers … Continue reading
Flash Dance
Technology offers a huge array of digital tools for today’s communicator. New devices. Slick platforms. Technological slight-of-hand. The real trick, however, seems to be in knowing which tool to use to do your communicating. Gary Vaynerchuk, host of Wine Library … Continue reading
Filed under Comm 597, Social Media, Uncategorized, Video, Web Strategies for Storytelling
Life Support
“My favorite thing to do while zipping down the freeway is to try and save journalism.” Continue reading
Filed under Comm 597, Journalism, Web Strategies for Storytelling
I C U
I have always been interested in trend spotting, the kind that goes on in the streets of our country’s biggest cities by corporate scouts looking for the latest craze. In this arena, professional spotters go hang out in economically depressed … Continue reading
Filed under Comm 597, Mobile Communications
Calling for Democracy
I read Paul Mason’s, “Kenya in Crisis,” and am left wondering what a Kenya empowered by mobile telephony can really accomplish. It’s a little bit like looking into a crystal ball that is unveiling the future at warp speed, particularly … Continue reading
Filed under Comm 597, Mobile Communications
SMS: Connecting To Our Humanity?
I was recently reading a Mark Pesce piece on his blog, “The Human Network,” which is featured on The Personal Democracy Forum. In his article, “Hyperpolitics (American Style)” he cites some pretty astounding facts about the evolution of cell phone … Continue reading
Filed under Comm 597, Mobile Communications
The Mobile Ecosystem: Waiting for the Dust to Settle
When analysts dissect the ever-expanding numbers that constitute the mobile communication market, corporate America salivates in a kind of Pavlovian response. It’s the old eyeballs = money calculation that’s driven broadcast and Internet advertising practices for decades. The problem with … Continue reading
Filed under Comm 597, Mobile Communications, Uncategorized
ABI’s Mobile Content End User Survey: The Young Are Leading the Charge (What Else Is New?)
These are the consumers who were born with a silver modem in their hands. Continue reading
Filed under Comm 597, Mobile Communications
Blog Summary
Lurking on the other side I approached this class with the goal of trying to understand what the other side of my office, those mysterious designers and developers, who seem to write and talk in a special code (pun intended) … Continue reading
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