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And Now, a Message from My Marketing World… I’m Writing a Book!

by June 29, 2010 » Add more comments.
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I’m interrupting this personal blog to bring you a message from my business world: I’m writing a book! Planned for early December release, Content Rules is a how-to guide to creating compelling content for the Web. The talented and fun CC Chapman is co-author (David Meerman Scott is writing Read more »

Toy Story 3: ‘Contains Mild Thematic Elements Not Appropriate for Older Viewers’

by June 27, 2010 » Add more comments.
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Dear Motion Picture Association of America: I’m freshly back from the theater after seeing Toy Story 3, which prompts me to ask: A G-rating? Seriously? I haven’t been this disturbed since the Turkish prison scenes in Midnight Express (which was rated R, by the way). The first two Read more »

Today’s Guessing Game: What Is It?

by November 3, 2009 » Add more comments.

Remember AOL disks? If you owned a mailbox in the late 1990s or early-2000s, you know what I mean, because America Online‘s aggressive direct mail strategy probably distributed CD-ROMs and diskettes into it with irritating frequency. More than a billion disks were mailed between the late 1990s and 2006, Read more »

Lucky

by July 19, 2009 » Add more comments.

The Boston outlet of Morton’s, a Chicago-based steakhouse chain, sits across the street from Boston Harbor in a newly developed part of town called the Seaport. Inside, Morton’s has a clubby feel—all hushed tones and white linen and dark paneling. The bad lighting makes it hard to read the Read more »

Excerpt: Things That Scare Me

by April 19, 2009 » Add more comments.

I’ve been thinking about Things That Scare Me for a while, and when I wrote it, it turned out much longer than a blog post. So here’s an excerpt, including photos of the video shoot in Steve Garfield’s dining room cum video studio. A few weeks ago, I had Read more »

10 Things I Hate About You, Travel Edition

by March 22, 2009 » Add more comments.

The flight from Boston to Los Angeles takes six hours, during which there is a kind of caricature of intimacy that develops, at least in Coach. You might not even know the name of the guy sitting at your elbow, but still: You know his choice of reading Read more »

A Journey to ’25 Random Things’

by February 17, 2009 » Add more comments.

Three weeks ago, William tagged me in a “25 Random Things About Me” chain letter. I’ve hung around with William a few times, but reading his list feels a lot like a peek at his diary: Here are his hopes, fears, and his profession of love for Read more »

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