It doesn’t take artificial intelligence or native smarts to realize an increase of 300% in A.I. investment is a pretty big bump. But Forrester Research probably isn’t going out on a limb predicting that artificial intelligence will be a hot investment category […]
Ben Zobrist goes to the World Series. Two years in a row, for two different teams. He helps the Kansas City Royals overcome long decades of futility. Then he joins the Chicago Cubs and gets the hit that closes the […]
Just recently, I had the honor of getting a behind-the-scenes tour of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, just a bat’leth swing away from where Sheldon Cooper and his posse of wildmen hang out.During that visit, I got to enter […]
We’ve talked about the Napoleon Problem, the potential pratfalls involved in not controlling your own brand.Taking control of your public persona, which is now slathered far and wide by social media, content marketing and mobile technology, will probably evolve beyond ‘reputation management’. […]
See the picture above? I’ve got one question:What is this?It’s a trade show display. Right?Because the only other guess I can muster? It’s a midway attraction you’d find during red light district carny night in Amsterdam.This was apparently a highlight of the […]
It happened last year. Maybe you saw it mentioned in the marketing trades. Maybe you didn’t.But in NYC, the nexus of the P.R. stunt universe, an artist-hacker-technovandal by the handle of KATSU tagged a billboard using a drone.His target was […]
I recently had the pleasure of facilitating a couple of brainstorms with the team at The Great Company, a dynamic organization that’s changing the way Los Angeles-based creatives in the media community work, collaborate and office together.Confidentiality prevents me from getting into detail […]
When I got up on the morning of the Fourth of July this year, I was in Ely, Minnesota. I might as well have been in another country, if you compare it to my home in Beverly Hills, California. Except […]
Before you call me a Luddite, let me make it clear I’m always jonesing for the newest, the techiest, the designiest, the betterest material objects of flagrant desire out there. I love me some Apple. I’ll happily advocate for most Apple […]
This Halloween, as a service to yourself and others, please avoid handing these items out to unwary trick-or-treaters: