by Minter Dial | Sep 6, 2008 | Branding, New Tech
Why the decline of traditional Main Stream Media? Why the decline of Mainstream Media? This question has been argued and tossed around in many a media organization’s board room over the course of the last five years. Clearly, for news organizations in...
by Minter Dial | Jul 7, 2008 | New Tech
Television and Internet viewing versus dwindling attention span… I was stunned to see that television ogling by Americans, who are over 12 years old, has continued to rise despite the Internet. A census bureau study, published in the USA Today of June 25, 2008, said...
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 9, 2008 | New Tech, Social Media
Will a robot ever have the human touch? As I wrote in a prior post, I was highly disappointed after being called only a “reasonable geek” in a rather comprehensive (if marginally outdated) Geek Test at InnerGeek. As much as I am a reasonable geek and am thirsty for...
by Minter Dial | Feb 19, 2008 | New Tech
Ayant passé le Geek Test en entier (English version of the test innergeek v3.1) pour savoir à quel niveau de Geek suis-je, je découvre à ma grosse déception qu’avec 1811 points, je ne suis juste qu’un « REASONABLE GEEK». Autrement dit, je suis un geek...
by Minter Dial | Feb 5, 2008 | Genomics, Politics
Are Men and Women So Different? An advocate of diversity and a student of women’s studies at university, I keep an eagle eye on topics concerning equality. That said, there are also many ways to express and give value to the differences between men and women. A...