by Minter Dial | Mar 30, 2008 | Marketing
The issue of privacy continues to dominate the offline discussion on Facebook. NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Science Friday, 21 March 2008, featured a special on Facebook, and the big privacy question. Hosted by Ira Flatow, the show featured Daniel Weitzner (WWW...
by Minter Dial | Mar 30, 2008 | Environment, New Tech
WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) began the Earth Hour — lights out for an hour — in 2007 in Sydney Australia. The notion is that between 8-9pm in your time zone wherever you are in the world, everyone is to turn off their lights (or at least make some...
by Minter Dial | Mar 27, 2008 | Branding, Marketing
What’s in a name? After 1 1/2 years of existence, my blog continues to be an activity of no uncertain pleasure for me. I had for some time thought that the fact that its name, eponymous Minter Dial’s Blog, was not exactly a marketing angle, or meaningful...
by Minter Dial | Mar 25, 2008 | Entertainment
If you are a Stanley Jordan fan [as I am], you will undoubtedly enjoy the music of the 2007 film “August Rush”. Of course, most of us have a fibre that will appreciate the musical link between the various separated members of the family. As the last line of the film...
by Minter Dial | Mar 23, 2008 | Sports
The defeat of Federer and Nadal in the semi-finals this Easter weekend at the Pacific Life Open 2008 (Indian Wells) has me thinking this year will be a wide open year in men’s tennis. Not only has Federer not won a tournament this year, but he is getting beaten...