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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 »

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 »

Innocents At Home

by December 11, 2008 » Add more comments.

It snowed the other morning north of Boston. It was the first, early snowfall of the season, if you take a very literal view of the term “snowfall,” because the flurries that fell didn’t amount to any real accumulation. They stuck tentatively to the ground, in clusters, like Read more »

Beta Before Alpha

by June 8, 2008 » Add more comments.

My friend Rachel emailed me an article the other day from Yankelovich, a market research company. The article, produced just after Mother’s Day, heralded the arrival of “Beta Moms” and their “newfound acceptance that being a ‘just good enough for my family’ mother…speaks to a more forgiving, laid-back approach Read more »

American Idolatry

by May 22, 2008 » Add more comments.

Last week I signed on for the Comcast triple play, which brought our triumvirate of phone-internet-TV under Comcast’s wing. It also simultaneously catapulted us back to the Land of DVRs (Digital Video Recorders), a place from which we had reluctantly decamped after our last TiVo box died months ago. Read more »

The Shadow Knows: Watching Superbad with My Son

by April 3, 2008 » Add more comments.

When I was a kid, in the 70s, I used to swipe my older brother’s Mad magazines. A lot of the humor was over my head, but that only added to the allure: This was a peep show into an unknown world, and I was lusting to grow up. Read more »