The Mythic Marketer

There are few things that I love as much, and do as poorly as play Jazz music.   I’ve been playing piano (casually) for 30 years – and to this day I consider myself an absolute beginner.   Part of it is technique and practice of the mechanics of course.  But a much more important factor – [...]

Well – it’s almost certainly more than “absolutely nothing” – but I think it’s not what we’ve seen before from any previous social network – and I think that alone, unfortunately, may ultimately seal its fate one way or another. So, if you haven’t noticed Quora has been getting a bit of buzz lately.   Quite [...]

Do you like the TV Show Gossip Girl?   I’m going to take a wild guess that the answer is ‘no’.  If you did, you’d be watching it – and earlier this year Gossip Girl finished the 2009-2010 season in 125th place.  This makes it ostensibly near last place of all broadcast television shows.  I mean [...]

I’m a big fan of John Stewart.   I think The Daily Show is one of the best written television shows on the air.   It’s amazing to me how every single day, despite how quickly the news moves – they manage to stay relevant, quick and most of all hysterically funny. Last week, Stewart was on [...]

So, Facebook has just recently changed a whole bunch of stuff… yes again… And now users can “Unlike a page” right from their Home Stream. The “Unlike” feature has been around for some time now – but it was buried pretty deep in the user’s preferences.  Now, if a user sees an offending post from [...]

I’ve been chewing on a couple of recent articles recently about CEO’s and social media. The first is a study conducted by PR firm Weber Shandwick called “Socializing Your CEO”.  That study found that a shockingly low percentage of CEO’s maintain their own social media profile.  They go on to say that “removing Wikipedia [entries] [...]