Looking for the schedule of the Columbia Association’s lakefront movies for 2009, I typed in to Google a very respectable string of words: “columbia association” lakefront, movies, 2009. Lo, and behold, the Washington Post’s info was the #1 choice.
And, so I clicked.
I’m so dumbfounded that I’m beyond anger. I just skipped the Pissed-Off stage and [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘A New World Order’
July 6, 2009
Hating the WaPo right now
May 4, 2009
Getting friendly, fast, with cartoon advertising
Trends, trends, trends. Certainly not the first to spot this one. I just feel the cartoon-comic-drawn character approach to delivering marketing messages is firmly entrenched for now … and probably another 12-15 years before it starts to feel tired.
Examples abound. I just happened to be very impressed by this one for a coffee service. [...]
April 11, 2009
The power of community marketing
Community marketing. The next buzzword? Basic common sense? The new frontier of business opportunities in a down market? This article speaks much to the subject of community-centric marketing. Recommend it, I do.
Particularly when people feel more concern about the economy and their futures, their need for community participation heightens. This is classic Fourth Turning stuff, [...]
April 1, 2009
You’re never anonymous, so don’t be an a**hole
Big fan, I am, of owning one’s identity online. Major reason: Anons often do and say shitty and snitty things online, acting in a manner they would never act in person.
Here’s the low-down on someone who did — under the *assumed* veil of anonymity – something so shitty, that it compelled a community of folk [...]
April 1, 2009
SM: Not for the amateur
Talking social media with my BFF. She humored me and permitted to type some thoughts while she spoke.
Social media is not strategic. It’s revolutionary.
It’s not about sales. It’s about relationships.
It’s about putting in new infrastructure.
New connections.
New neural net inside a company.
No longer is this about mainframes, centralized data.
Real time communication between real people that’s archived.
It’s [...]
February 20, 2009
Sun-ripened tomatoes in February?
I live in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. I know a bit about gardening, a bit about seasons and the earth moving around the sun, a bit about generations and a bit about trends.
And while I jus’ luvs me our new president and feel he is, indeed, The Man for the Times, I do [...]
February 8, 2009
Give ‘em hell, Bob
Just watched a snippet of news on CNN. About the 150 or so ice fisherman who knowingly went into dangerous territory … anyway. Uh, this time, things didn’t work out, they needed emergency rescue, etc.
The part I love-love-love about the story is the ever-so-irrate sherriff in the local area who is very upset about their [...]
January 21, 2009
It ain’t time to march no mo’
Driving home tonight, I was listening to The Mo’Nique Show on a local radio station. She’s a bit of a character, or at least plays so on the radio, and I like her.
I tuned in right as she said something that spoke to me dearly. Paraphrasing, she said, “It’s time to get healthy. To take [...]
January 17, 2009
Excuse me my lack of political correctness
A sight last night intrigued me. It was a young black couple: hip, with hip black hair, casual but stylish clothes, doing a waltz. Not just any waltz, a waltz with an accomplished sense of style and an edge that didn’t reek of geek.
Now, it wasn’t just the color, style and age of the couple [...]
November 23, 2008
Rolling my eyes.
At first, I held my tongue. I thought about saying something, but I held my tongue. Today, however, I’m feeling compelled to speak up.
See, a few months back my li’l ol’ community newspaper, The Columbia Flier, wrote a story about folk losing their homes because of all the “predatory lending” and mortgage crisis whatever stuff. [...]
November 21, 2008
A noble death
When I was 16, my dad taught me a lesson about driving. One winter night, while the snow was falling in big heavy clumps, we drove to the high school I attended, where the parking lot was covered in several inches of freshly fallen snow. There, he taught me how to handle skidding when my [...]
November 4, 2008
A new day is dawning
It really is a new era. Literally. A significant cultural shift occurs approximately every 20 years in America, in a dominant-recessive-dominant-recessive pattern. This is the first election in which a GenXer will be in the White House, whether it be — as things seem to be going — Barack Obama as our new president, or [...]
November 2, 2008
You gotta be cruel to be kind
Lord, have mercy. If that ain’t a big part of the GenX Manifesto: You gotta to be cruel to be kind, but I’ll get to that later. Hi there, my fellow Americans. My name is JessieX, and I’m asking for your vote (or at least a moment of your time) in my bid to become [...]
