Introducing a new feature in the Substance digital conversation… music. mixtape.findsubstance.com This week marks the first Substance Monday Mixtape. Yes, it was two days ago… where were you? If you weren’t at mixtape.findsubstance.com, you missed out. But don’t worry, you’ve got five more days before we update it again. Plus, we’ll be archiving them each week, so you’ll always be able to…
our thinking about Reading & Music…
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10 February 2009
I wanna rock all night, and party every Monday
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28 October 2008
Age of Conversation 2.0 arrives October 29th
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 that different from the political campaigns comparing fear and hope). The overall theme of my…
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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 this essay are the ideas of regulation as a “rules-based” approach versus regulation as a “principles-based” approach. A rules-based approach is, “lawmakers and…
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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.
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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 collection of remixes and mashups.
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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 over the internet, tracking what we find interesting. We harvest all this good stuff so we can share it with each other here at Substance World Headquarters. And…
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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 Financial Page, The New Yorker, May 28, 2007 Through either coincidence or fate, I recently read The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda, and…
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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 “Lovemarks” by Kevin Roberts. Kevin is the CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi (or at least was when the book came out). The book talks about the importance of emotion in creating relationships, and…
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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 we’ve had to shelve our Top 40 dreams for now. You other bands in the PAF Battle better…
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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 Don’t forget to register for Forward07 on the AMA’s website. You can also check out the poster below for more info (click it…
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