I’m sure this has happened to you at some point in your everyday online life: you’re looking at couches for your living room on, let’s say, the IKEA website. All of a sudden every single website you visit after that for weeks shows you banner ads for couches and furniture. Do you find this disturbing [...]
I attended a meeting last week where the guest speaker was none other than Tom Burrell, pioneer in multicultural communications, chairman and founder of Burrell Communications Group, and author of Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority. He gave a very thought-provoking and informative presentation on the power of images, media, and marketing. Those three [...]
BIN LADEN IS DEAD. This was the message heard and spread around the globe, in a matter of moments, late last night. The story broke not over the wires. Not on TV. Not in the newspapers. But instead, on the go-to source for real-time news today: Twitter. At 9:30pm ET last night, a tweet was [...]
“We see things not as they are, but as we are. Because it is the ‘I’ behind the ‘eye’ that does the seeing.” -Anaïs Nin Last week, we featured a post on how quickly information is virally spread via social media. The example was the mash-up video that the everyone quickly came to believe was [...]
“You young fellas…no appreciation for the art of conversation.” –Nucky Thompson, Boardwalk Empire A few weeks ago, I had a conversation about something that’s been really annoying me. Grammatical errors. Improper usage. Misspelled words. They’re everywhere I look, and it’s driving me crazy. Why? Because these are grammatical, usage and spelling errors no one should’ve [...]
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