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January 2009

Design

Movie Trailer: Objectified

Take a sneak peak at the trailer to what seems like a great documentary in the making. Here's a little about the project… Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by…
January 12, 2009
Marketing

This Weekend: “24” Returns to the Air!

That’s right—after the 2007 Writer’s Guild of America strike stymied production for a 2008  Season Seven of 24, the hit show is back, starting this Sunday, January 11, with two back-to-back episodes, followed by two more on Monday, January 12. After that, 24 is scheduled for new episodes each week. Let’s hope the impending Screen Actor’s Guild strike does not interfere with Jack Bauer’s adventures again!  We know that the cast and crew at Fox are cranking out episodes to…
January 9, 2009
Marketing

National Communications Association in San Diego

                        Outlets of Communication This is a belated report on the NCA Conference held last November in San Diego. We were so busy with end-of-the-year matters that this got pushed to the back burner, but has been on our minds ever since, because the NCA plays an important role in the study and discourse of everything you can imagine about the Internet, marketing on and off line, and the…
January 9, 2009
Development

The Read More Button

Ah, Wordpress. You have so much magical goodness. If only you could play Rock Band songs, and cook dinner, we would never have to be apart. But I digress... back to the matter at hand! Here is a helpful tip for all those new to the glory of the Wordpress: the Read More button. I think this especially relates to the latest  Online Marketing Trend Report over at SD Interactive: The old “one size fits all” method of web design…
January 9, 2009
Marketing

Ninthlink Book Reviews: Blogs, Blogs, Blogs!

Uses of Blogs edited by Axel Burns and Joanna Jacobs. Peter Lang Publishers. This collection of essays brings together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of fields to offer a broad spectrum of perspectives on current and emerging uses of blogs. “Blogging is rapidly developing into a mainstream activity for Internet users, but beyond the popular headlines, there has been very little serious research done on their actual application in specific, everyday contexts,” claim the editors. (more…)
January 9, 2009