An Unlikely Suspect Rejuvenates A Dead-Tree Magazine

The irony: The magazine industry – especially the dead-tree side of it – is a big industry that is not going away any time soon. But it is seriously challenged by emerging new media, media fragmentation, changing media consumption patterns, and advertisers’ redirecting of ad dollars to places other than magazines.Read the rest

Device warns you if you’re boring or irritating

My wife says I need this new emotion device, developed at the MIT Media Lab, and featured in the NewScientist. Seriously:

A DEVICE that can pick up on people’s emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them.

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Joe Jaffe, Jackie Huba, Pete Blackshaw Debate Consumer-Generated Media (CGM)

I encourage you to download and listen to the latest episode of Across The Sound, the “new marketing podcast,” by Joseph Jaffe, new media pundit. The latest episode – part 1 of 2 – features my esteemed colleague Pete Blackshaw and our friend Jackie Huba, co-author of Creating Customer Evangelists and the blog www.churchofthecustomer.comRead the rest