by Minter Dial | Sep 17, 2007 | Social Media
The two-second news spot? As if the 24-second spot weren’t condensed enough (thanks CNN), we now seem to be moving into nano-news era. On top of that, via services such as blogs, Twitter, wikipedia and others, the proliferation of news services and sources seems...
by Minter Dial | Sep 16, 2007 | New Tech
In preparations for the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés) meeting 24 September, in Montréal, Google’s Keeper of the Data, Peter Fleischer, has been on the bandwagon for a worldwide protocol for the protection of private data on...
by Minter Dial | Sep 15, 2007 | Marketing
Ok, this video clip, The Break Up, has been with us for already 1.3M views and I’ve had it marked as a bookmark for quite a while, but I thought I’d come out of the closet and show my appreciation by adding it as today’s post. It is a good reminder...
by Minter Dial | Aug 31, 2007 | Branding, Marketing
As an American living overseas, you sometimes get bombarded with the (often well merited) criticism of American provincialism. And, the general line of argument centres around what type of news Americans follow. A recent study by McKinsey encouraged possibly a...
by Minter Dial | Aug 30, 2007 | Travel
“Ch-ch-changes… Time may change me, But I can’t trace time.” Not alone to think that the USA Today Top 25 pivotal changes (in honour of their 25th anniversary) makes for quite fun reading, found a few other similarly minded posts (including...