Eight:48. Design is Blank » The Designer Database. IN THE MAKING. Blogs. Untitled. Alltop, all the top stories. Blog Tips to Help You Make Money Blogging - ProBlogger. Boing Boing. Mentoring, platforms and taking a leap. How much support does someone need (or get, or deserve, you pick) before they ship their art? The fearful lizard brain demands reassurance and coaching and even a push before it is quiet enough to permit us to do the difficult work our economy demands, before it will allow us to create art that changes others. So it's logical to wonder how to build systems that encourage legions of people to find that reassurance, and it's encouraging to imagine that we could build a school or a coaching program or other external forces that would create more artists. And yet most mentors and coaches and teachers will tell you that few of their students ever do, not in comparison with their potential.
A few break through and change everything, and we celebrate them, but what about everyone else? The artists are different. They took a leap. They weren't pushed. Micro magazines and a future of media. Does anyone read Time or Newsweek (being sold to anyone who will take them) any more? And when they disappear, who will really miss them? The problem is that they are both slow and general. The world, on the other hand, is fast and specific. Is there a business here? While there are still people hoping to make a living writing a blog (not as a tool for something else, but as an end into itself), that's awfully difficult to do. Micro-magazines, on the other hand, feel very different to me. They have elements that make them very attractive to advertisers and readers. I'll define one as: Being digital (probably a PDF), that's free to 'print', fast to make and easy to share. There's room in the market for 100,000 profitable micro-magazines.
Surely you can think of a group of people that share a demo- or psychographic, that are appealing to an advertiser base and want to learn and share what they learn... for free. Take a look at Clay and Ishita's new magazine, Fearless. Blog - Create Your Communications Experience. My friend Jason is a genius. Like many parents across the country, Jason had struggled to explain the price of college to his daughter. Seventeen-year-old Rachel had fallen in love with a school whose tuition is upwards of $60,000 a year. For a while Jason tried to communicate by multiplying that number. “You’re going to graduate with a quarter-million dollars in debt,” he would say. But that strategy never worked. Then Jason changed his approach. “Remember how hard you had to work to save the $4,000 for your car last year?”
With that, his message officially stuck. The technique Jason used is one familiar to those who have taken our Decker Made to Stick Messaging workshops. As well as Jason used the human-scale principle to communicate the cost of college to his daughter, Wikipedia did him one better. Dear Wikipedia readers: We are the small non-profit that runs the #5 website in the world. There is a lot to love here. Even better is their choice of human scale phrases. Copywriting and Content Marketing Strategies. Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide. Pitchfork: Home. Technology Books, Tech Conferences, IT Courses, News - O'Reilly. Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Person. Wine Library TV: Gary Vaynerchuk's daily wine video blog.
A blog about the art and the science of marketing research. I live with two self-proclaimed nerds. They love being nerds (as they should). They love nerd culture. They will watch nerd movies, read nerd books, and buy nerd things. Despite one being a Gen Xer and the other a Gen Zer, their nerd culture consumer behavior has been pretty much the same. I’ll admit I’ve been waiting for a generational split, a moment when today’s nerd of gadget culture and tech billionaires would no longer partake in activities enjoyed by the nerd from the time of Urkel and whiz kids.
Homestuck is a webcomic series. I largely agree with the overall sentiment Gen Zers are tech fluent. Gen Zers look for products that resonate with their reality instead of an aspirational product or message. My home’s Gen Zer spends a lot of his time sharing his thoughts on Homestuck through Instagram, deviantART, Google+ and kik.
It makes sense when you put the Gen Xer in the context of his generation; a whole culture of apathetic ‘mehs’. Blog | Goldsmith Strategic Services. Millennials Becoming ‘Minimalists’ Of all the impacts of the Recession, the impact on Millennial attitudes and shopping behavior may be the most lasting. There’s no question, Gen Y has been hit harder than other generations by the double whammy of fewer jobs and higher student loan debt. The result is a generation that is more consciously frugal and actively reconsidering the role of material possessions, luxury, sustainability, career in their lives. The result may be a new Gen Y aesthetic, one that prizes minimalism and simplicity over luxury and status in the choice of homes, fashion, technology, travel and more.
A report by Price Waterhouse Coopers, “The New Consumer Behavior Paradigm: Permanent or Fleeting“, found there is a more careful approach to shopping and consumption across all generations, including Gen Y. Twenty-five percent of 18-27 year olds say their shopping behavior has ‘changed significantly’ and another 47% say it has changed somewhat. Basics are in. Complexity and clutter are out. Short Stories. Color Me Katie. Blog The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It.
Does Santa Exist? A Chat with Eric Kaplan (Transcript) January 19th, 2015 | by Benjamin Sobel | published in Future of the Internet | Comments Off Jonathan Zittrain: This is Jonathan Zittrain speaking. I’m on the line, wherever that is, with one Eric Kaplan, author of “Does Santa Exist? A Philosophical Investigation,” a book that I had the pleasure of reading and that Eric had the burden of writing—and we thought we would talk about it for a little bit. So, […] Does Santa Exist? December 26th, 2014 | by z | published in Future of the Internet | Comments Off Eric Kaplan is a writer and producer of the Big Bang Theory. Everything you should know about … warrant canaries December 8th, 2014 | by ngilens | published in Future of the Internet | 1 Comment Guest post by Naomi Gilens, J.D.
Why Libraries Matter September 10th, 2014 | by z | published in Future of the Internet | Comments Off Righting the right to be forgotten. Out:think | Web Development and Design. The Idee Blog.
Idea|syncrasy. The Artypapers Blog - Artypapers. Early Quora Design Notes January 21st, 2010 Recently the startup I've been working at for 6 or so months launched its first product. Quora is a continually improving collection of questions and answers -- a place where you can find the best source for a wide range of information online; from local hotspots to esoteric Harry Potter trivia, it's all there. (Cal)Training. February 22nd, 2009 At the end of October '08, I set out to design a little app to make the CalTrain schedule more useful. My goal was pretty simple: Create an iPhone-friendly webapp that could show the number of minutes until the next train. Retrospective. February 8th, 2009 Launching the tenth version of Artypapers got me thinking about its designs through the years. Version 10 January 19th, 2009 Still working out the kinks but the tenth version of Artypapers is starting to roll off the assembly line.
New Addition to the Job Pile May 18th, 2008 Holy craps updates! February 27th, 2008. Mobile Marketer - The news leader in mobile marketing, media and. Daylife Blog. A Word Aptly Spoken | Aspirantone's Blog. A Word Aptly Spoken A Word Aptly Spoken Words are used everyday to communicate. Sometimes the words that we chose clearly communicate our thoughts. Sometimes words confuse the listener and will take on a different meaning just by the tone in which they are spoken.
Have you ever said something and you knew exactly what you meant however the other person or persons did not even come close to understanding the meaning of your words? Explore with me for a moment… As a parent there are times that we become very disappointed in the behaviors of our children, our verbal responses are often impulsive and totally unrealistic. We will say such things as…”Get out of my face; I can’t deal with you right now!” My intention here is not to suggest that everything we say must always be sugary and sweet.
Proverbs 25: 11 states…”A word aptly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.” Proverbs 15: 23 states, “A man finds joy in giving an apt reply—and how good is a timely word!” Like this: In Honor Of Design.