This week’s post is dedicated to all the moms out there who keep curiosity and imagination alive. Without those traits there would be no dreamers, no innovators, and certainly no one to ask “why” something can’t be done. Continue reading
This week’s geek-out post is the Inception of geek-out Sunday posts. It features a the fictional Peter Weyland from this summer’s upcoming sci-fi blockbuster movie Prometheus presenting to an enormous stadium filled with fans at a TED conference in 2023. Continue reading
Rod Serling, the narrator for The Twilight Zone, once described science fiction in the following terms: ”Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science Fiction is the improbable made possible.” The term “sci-fi” itself was coined by famed American science fiction movie memorabilia collector Forrest Ackerman in 1954 but the genre itself has been around for nearly two thousand years. Continue reading
The Nielsen Company and NM Incite (a joint venture between Nielsen and McKinsey & Company) in their recently released U.S. Digital Consumer Report dubbed the current young adult generation “Generation C” based on their “connected” behaviors. This group – Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 – accounts for approximately 23% of the population according to the most recent U.S. Census but they spend far more time socializing and consuming media through their devices than other “generations.” Continue reading
Ever since I first got onto the Internet in the late 1980s and involved in its commercialization in the early 1990s I’ve seen year after year of brilliant (and sometimes silly) innovation and growth. It should be no surprise that pundits the world over are looking to 2012 to be yet another record-setting year wherein more people get online and stay online in ways that are well understood and some that may emerge before our very eyes (Pinterest, anyone?). Continue reading
If you’ve spent enough time working in the corporate world, you’ve likely been subjected to thousands of business metaphors and clichés. Some of the very best (and worst) examples of these abstractions are illustrated by often questionable clips from popular movies (which are frequently used out of context). Continue reading
4.9 million (4,900,000)
Yesterday my former colleagues at Nielsen released their “State of the Media: Consumer Usage Report” for 2011 which has a decidedly U.S. focus. During the first week of November Nielsen released an infographic triptych that in hindsight was an excellent preview for this report. Continue reading
1 trillion (1,000,000,000,000)
According to a new video from YouTube, over 1 trillion video views (i.e., “video playbacks”) on the video sharing site. That’s 140 playbacks for every man, woman, and child on earth. Continue reading
90%
Jason the genius behind Frugal Dad put together the impressive and insightful infographic below that details the state of media consolidation. Broken down into six different categories – consolidation, television, news, radio, movies, and mergers – the facts aren’t pretty. Continue reading
Those were the droids you were looking for. Awesome. http://ow.ly/2bs8kz
