Art vs. Science in the advertising industry
“It’s as much art as it is science.” I heard myself say that at the best Ohio ad agency this week… and vomited a little in my mouth. In advertising, the age-old argument of “Art vs. Science” is a false dichotomy that misunderstands...Uber vs. The Taxi Industry
Uber. Lyft. Yellow Cab. Which one of these is not like the others? Evidently, the taxi industry is reeling from the first two. Taxi drivers pay ridiculous sums of money to be a legal taxi service. This article tells the story of one immigrant taxi driver who has had...
A Musician’s Opinion on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)
I am a musician. I write, record, and play songs. I spend months pouring my deepest feelings into a dozen or so 3 minute tunes. In the good ol’ days, I could’ve signed a deal with some huge record label, borrowed a ridiculous amount of money from them to...3 Predictions About the Future of “Social”
In the US, there are tens of millions of searches every month for things related to social marketing, social media marketing, and the like. But, if you look at Google Trends, it also looks like that search traffic may have peaked (for now, anyway). So have searches...Failure Sucks
We can learn from our successes just as much as we can from our failures. So, I’d like to see a switch from Failure Chic to Learning Chic.