Way, way back in May I submitted my chapter to the Age of Conversation 2.0 about the New Brand of Creative, as it relates to the overall book topic: Why don’t they get it? I focused on the idea of fear or love (which is not…
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7 May 2008
Circumvent or aspire?
In the April 28, 2008 issue of the New Yorker, there is an essay called “Parsing Paulson.” Now, I’m the first to admit I know next to nothing about economics and financial regulations. What caught my attention in…
18 April 2008
Friday Muxness
We’ve updated the FindSubstance Muxtape for your listening pleasure. We’re also taking requests… leave them in the comments for the next Muxtape. We’ll see what we can do.
31 March 2008
Muxtape, the remix.
Want to share mp3s online? Look no further than muxtape.com A simple, straightforward concept… upload up to 12 songs, organize them, then publish. Of course I had to give it a shot… here’s the first muxtape: a co…
2 November 2007
Tracking Substance
You’ve probably been asking yourself, “Sure, Substance’s web site gives me some insight into how they think… but how can I learn even more?” Well ask no further. You’ll find our footprints all o…
17 July 2007
Feature Creep and the Laws of Simplicity.
“The people who design and sell products are not the ones who buy and use them, and what engineers and marketers think is important is not necessarily what’s best for consumers.” - James Surowiecki on the Financ…
17 June 2007
Fathers and Sons
“The essential difference between emotion and reason is that emotion leads to action while reason leads to conclusions.” - Donald Calne, neurologist (from “Lovemarks,” p. 42) I’m reading “Lovemar…
3 June 2007
We’ve Not Yet Begun to Fight!
You’ve probably been waiting on the edge of your seat to see what songs we’ve picked for Battle of the Bands. Well, we had big dreams of rock stardom, but then we got a couple new projects on some tight timelines, and …
9 May 2007
This Week’s Reminders
Coffee Reminder We’ll be at the Stumptown Ace this week (1022 SW Stark), up on the 1 1/2th floor (go around the front desk and up the staircase in the hotel). Friday, May 11th, 8:30am. See you then! Forward07 Reminder DonR…
4 May 2007
I wanna rock. I want to ROCK.
We received an email invitation (just like everyone on the PAF mailing list) to join in the fracas to be known as Portland Ad Fed’s Battle of the Bands. How could we possibly resist this call to rock? Now we just got to get …
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