Advertising… Your Brain on Ads 14 Jun 201114 Jun 2011 Take a therapist who trained her daughter to watch media, including ads, with critical attention. Now imagine this daughter, Maya Cueva--already a journalist while still a teenager--not only applying that…
Business… Summer Survival 11 Jun 20119 Jun 2011 Is summer over yet? Oh, yeah, I don't have a break. And my children do! So here's what I want--or rather don't want--for me (and everyone around me) to be…
Change the World… Friday Flick: Virtual Choir 3 Jun 2011 We're so glad Eric Whitacre did not make it as a pop star. Here's a TED talk on his composing and creating influences: Mozart and a fan on YouTube. It's…
Business… Handwritten E-mail 25 Apr 201123 Apr 2011 Handwritten E-mail--what a lovely idea! Pilot, maker of traditional pens, is working on it. It isn't perfected yet--this is still beta testing--but they have a beautiful goal. I suggest you watch…
Art Books… Books: Too Good to Die 14 Apr 201117 Apr 2011 True--you're reading this online and you probably read eBooks of some sort. But technology also expands the options for traditional books as well. Back in 2005, Valerie Kirschenbaum published Goodbye Gutenberg:…
Business… HBR on Hiring Humanities Majors 6 Apr 20116 Apr 2011 Second Road's Tony Golsby-Smith writes for a Harvard Business Review guest blog, "People trained in the humanities who study Shakespeare's poetry, or Cezanne's paintings, say, have learned to play with…
Blogging… A Word about Copyright 2 Apr 201122 Apr 2011 My composer son believes in copyright karma. In high school, while pirated music surrounded him, he could have played his iTunes around the clock for two weeks straight without duplicating a track,…
Caring… Quakebook 29 Mar 201130 Mar 2011 This might be a new speed record in book collaboration and instant publishing. 2:46 Quakebook. Call for submissions: Twitter's @OurManInAbiko. Three weeks later: an online version of the book. It's…
Business… Writing and Ice Cream 28 Mar 2011 One of my youngest fans requested that I blog about ice cream. "How is ice cream related to Writers' Resort?" "Easy," he said. "Resort equals ice cream." Ah. It has…
Business… Earth Hour 26 Mar 201126 Mar 2011 Tonight cities around the globe will observe an hour of darkness. My resident young astronomer requests that we do this every night all night. Here's the Earth Hour video. And check…
Business… Firefox 4.0 Ain’t Ready 24 Mar 201124 Mar 2011 Some companies use their customers as beta testers. Microsoft springs to mind. I give them at least a year to figure things out before I give in to an upgrade.…
Business… Rogue Phone 9 Mar 201112 Mar 2011 Today I ran my cell phone through the wash. It's my business phone, and there were also major family coordination maneuvers happening tonight, so getting my phone dried and back…
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