February 2012
2 posts
January 2012
4 posts
“MOM I AM GOING TO KILLER’S HOUSE ON THE BACK OF HIS MOTORCYCLE WITH NO...”
– Turn that phone over
Contrasts
Android handset makers: "Here are our phones. How would you like us to change them so that you will sell them?"
Microsoft: "Here’s $200 million. Please sell our phones."
Apple: "Here is our new phone. It comes in black or white. We will let you sell it."
December 2011
7 posts
“Son Im 38 I wwebsite as on the internet when you were a sperm in your daddys...”
– – Ocean Marketing PR agent Paul Christoforo, to Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik, demonstrating the dangers of epileptic typing.
November 2011
7 posts
WatchPeople, this is how you a video review. Good looking, clear sounding, tight editing, and hype avoiding. The Verge Flash-free HTML5 video is hosted at something called http://vid.io/.
“Apple denies that its correct name is Apple, Inc. The correct name of Respondent...”
– Apple Inc. in a legal response to an HTC complaint.
“I would staple a green card to the diploma of anyone that graduates with a...”
– John Doerr
October 2011
6 posts
5 tags
September 2011
4 posts
“The connections we make in the course of a life—maybe that’s what...”
– Mister Rogers to the author of a 1998 profile in Esquire
“Google seems to be acting like the king piece in chess. It has no value fighting...”
– HTC sues Apple for patent infringement… using patents purchased by Google
August 2011
22 posts
4 tags
“Do Republicans really want to run a candidate who has put in writing his...”
– Conservative commentator David Frum
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round...”
– Think Different
2 tags
“All jokes are grievances.”
– Marshall McLuhan
There Is No Tablet Market →
Apple did not beat you with the iPad. They beat you with the iPad market. A market they created out of the ashes of burning netbooks, low cost laptops, and PCs that no one really liked or wanted in the first place. There simply was no other option at the time available for them to buy otherwise. Apple created that option.
WatchIt’s been more than 15 years since I’ve been on a press check, but now that I’m the creative director of a PR agency that does a lot more than PR, I’m getting back into all sorts of endeavors. Brand identity, web design, marketing strategy — fun stuff. Here’s some b-roll shot and edited on my iPhone. I think the client will like the results.
“My friends and I have been coddled long enough by a billionaire-friendly...”
– Warren Buffet, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich”
“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and the poor alike to sleep...”
– Anatole France, 1894 (via MetaFilter)