Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine, Resources, The Work, UpstartU
Last week I attended the Northside Entrepreneurship Festival. I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. By combining the trendy, somewhat overused term “entrepreneur,” the hotness that is Brooklyn and a stark, industrial warehouse-type space, it could either be brilliant or a parody of itself. As Spinal Tap put it, there’s a very fine line between [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine, Small is Brilliant, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Video
For many years I made my living primarily as a professional word-slinger. Finding sixteen hour days on movie sets a poor vocational choice for the long-tem (however romantic and adventurous), I turned to the air-conditioned confines of the copywriter’s life. And it could be cush. One job I would routinely spend one week massaging a [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Content Matters, DIY, How-to, it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine, Micro Marketing, Quotable, Resources, Small is Brilliant
Yesterday I went from a person who only had a vague notion of Seth Godin as a marketing-guru-slash-author to one of those people who quotes Seth Godin like he’s the number one God of all things futuristic and innovative. Sorry if I’m late to the party, friends. I attended an all-day conference with the man [...]
Categories: Artists & Writers, Bloggers, Blogging, Brilliant + free, Content Matters, DIY, it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine, Literature Unbound, Micro Marketing, Mobile tech, Nonprofit/Cultural, Quotable, Resources, Small is Brilliant, Small List, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, The Work, Twitter
What does it mean to be a creator in 2012? It means you’ve got to be ready to be your own cheerleader, creating websites, micro-marketing and just figuring out by hook or by crook how to get seen by the world. But entrepreneur? Is this the new de facto addition all writers, actors, critics and filmmakers [...]
Categories: Bloggers, Blogging, it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine, Resources, Small is Brilliant, Small List: Tools, Social Media, Social Media @ Work, Twitter
Last week, I posted some of my fantasy ideas if I were in charge of all digital initiatives for NYC. At work, we published a data viz on the spread of tweets about the Tuesday earthquake and how you could look at the visual shape of information spread. I was thinking about both those things [...]
Categories: it's the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine
First off, we fled from Baltimore on Christmas evening after reading the weather report. On Sunday afternoon, Juniper and I went up to Prospect Park to scope out the blizzard: If we were to survive, we would need provisions:
