Entries Tagged as 'content'

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

my so-called quarterlife

marshall herskovitz & edward zick + the quarterlife crisis + the rise of the creative class + myspace = marshall herskovitz and edward zwick aren’t simply geniuses, they are CONSISTENTLY the only ones creating television programming that reflects the real struggles of an entire generation. thirtysomething was before my time, (though i do know it [...]

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Thursday, September 13th, 2007

The Do LaB Artist Network – Issue #3: Fall 2007

The Do LaB Artist Network – Issue #3: Fall 2007 NEW ISSUE UP NOW! http://artistnetwork.thedolab.com/fall07/ after months of work and an incredible team effort all around, the fall Artist Network is finally ready. people without whose help this idea would not be a reality include: jesse shannon, arin ingraham, brian shaw, and albertico acosta. huge [...]

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Monday, July 30th, 2007

you are not the demo

photo by: anearthling One of usability’s most hard-earned lessons is that “you are not the user.” If you work on a development project, you’re atypical by definition. Design to optimize the user experience for outsiders, not insiders. – jakob nielsen much the same way that the developer is not the user, the marketer is not [...]

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Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

blog and the city

right after i’d written the cult of the gate-crasher post i found an op-ed video of sorts made for the wall street journal by scott karp, responding to the question of whether bloggers can be journalists, and i’ve been following him since. today i just saw this very interesting piece he wrote: Should Newspapers Become [...]

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Thursday, July 19th, 2007

create culture

the do lab’s hope flower, 2006 photo by: Natalia Valik it’s the middle of summer. this means i’ve been spending time lately putting together the next issue of the Do Lab Artist Network. it started in the winter, when a ton of the producers we work with at the do were making noise about the [...]

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Monday, July 9th, 2007

state of the art of flight

you know, back in the day, people used to get dressed up to fly on an airplane? it wasn’t simply about getting from point a to point b, it was actually–before the concept even really existed in the kind of marketing sense it does today–an experience. same like when movie theaters were once movie “palaces” [...]

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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

bright idea for online video content

we’ve been getting quite a bit of coverage in the wake of LIB. a lot of traditional press, a decent bit of blogosphere attention, and a ton of photos (both press and ugc stylie). there are also a couple really great videos that have gotten me to thinking about the future of online media content, [...]

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Saturday, May 19th, 2007

post production plague & the Artist Network…belated

LIB07 went off with nary a hitch, and wild success a week ago…finally! i liken the process of working on a music festival to going through labor with 20+ people for 5 months, and when the baby’s delivered it graduates, and moves off to college. so we ushered LIB off, and in the aftermath, as [...]

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