Archive for the 'Books' Category


Present Shock

Maybe it’s not the music’s fault. Used to be you lay on your bed listening to music dreaming of a better life to come. One with friends, romance, all kinds of excitement. Now you just log on to the Internet and hunt for these experiences. You know, the peak of a positive e-mail, a congratulatory […]

Do Something Useful

It’s a beautiful, sunny, Southern California Saturday and I’m killing time reading magazines before I up and go to parties. Yup, that’s why the summer is better than the winter, the extracurricular activities. First we’re stopping by at a Middlebury event, and if there’s time left thereafter, we’re going to Kevin Weaver’s house for an […]

Social Media Manipulation

For years we heard that advertising would make your numbers online. That you could get rid of your real world product, put it on the Internet, and with all the eyeballs attracted, you could charge a fortune for ads and end up rich. Only this didn’t turn out to be true. Just ask the “New […]

Emotion

Why does everybody think they can write? Ten years ago, a book crept into the public consciousness and has remained there, the author became internationally famous and gives high-priced speeches to corporations in far-flung communities to this day. That book was “The Tipping Point,” that author was Malcolm Gladwell. First and foremost, Gladwell can write. […]