by Jeff Yablon | Jan 30, 2012 | Business Process, Design, Marketing, Media
Why is is so hard, the more we communicate, to actually say anything? Even more: if you do manage to say something why does social networking make it so easy for people to apply the wrong context to what you say—or apply no context at all? Last night, Brian Clark, a...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 27, 2012 | Business Process
Oh-My-God-I’ve-Never-Seen-Anything-Like-That-Dress-You-Are-So-Hot-I-Can’t-Even-Believe-It! Yesterday, I was in the car, listening, as old dudes like me tend to, to the news. And a piece came on that almost made me veer off the road. It described the...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 26, 2012 | Business Process, Marketing, Media
I’ve mentioned Chris Brogan here quite a few times. Sometimes, I praise him. More often, I call Mr. Brogan out for being disingenuous, or inauthentic. Once, I suggested Chris wasn’t very smart, which he didn’t care for (although I think he missed the...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 25, 2012 | Business Process, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
Whenever I decide to write about privacy, I always cringe a little. As I’ve said more than a couple of times, privacy is a relatively new idea, has never really existed, and is impossible to legislate. The very idea of privacy is so complicated it makes my head...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 24, 2012 | Business Process, Content, Media
http://youtu.be/QIWpbfZHHzc A few months ago, I came across this video. It’s funny. REALLY funny. Using not-a-real-App Jotly, you could rate everything. Why limit yourself to rating the place you’re at when we all know that restaurant reviews are fake,...
by Jeff Yablon | Jan 23, 2012 | Business Process, Content, Media, Search Engine Optimization SEO
When I told you about YouHaveDownloaded.com in this story about the marketing genius that is comedian Louis CK a few weeks back, I didn’t realize we’d be getting to pick on the United States Congress. Turns out that our friends in Washington DC, the very...