Comments for Pragmatic Yankee

Comment on links for 2008-07-16 by stacy

stacy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:40:06 +0000

you can do a lot with shrubs and stuff in a traditional lawn space. Plants that the kids can run through and you don’t have to mow. Plus the kids will smell good after they run by it. I can send help research plants for your area if you are interested.

Comment on And none too soon… by mikemookie

mikemookie — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:46:12 +0000

With great power comes great responsibility…
I love this theory and completely buy into it based on all the conversations I’ve been privy to with big, old, slow moving brands. I think the next time I am in a client meeting and they ask for more TV I’m going to tell them to stop being so f’ing lazy!… Wait, does that mean I have to do more work then to?

Comment on And none too soon… by David

David — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 14:39:45 +0000

Right. They’re starting to get a compelling model, but it’s a particular CASE, right?
They have very controlled conditions. And is one example of that kind of correlation.

My point isn’t that online CAN’T, it’s that it doesn’t have the monolithic “There, I’ve dealt with my media” quality that TV has. I think the industry (advertising) and possibly even the clients are overwhelmed, scared and unsure. Because it takes too much thought and effort right now. It has been, for years, easy — you buy x, y and z. Now there’s a whole alphabet, and you have to make CHOICES, and you could be WRONG.

Basically, everyone has to work. And I think the industry is starting to smell of flop-sweat.

Comment on And none too soon… by mikemookie

mikemookie — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:41:35 +0000

And how does Consumer Direct affect, or not, this theory that online can’t yet correlate on sales?

Comment on Wait… so is it still ugly? by creepy

creepy — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:52:12 +0000

This is standard decor in NZ … just add a bit of fungus behind the wallpaper.

Comment on Boring like a toilet… by Jason Kolb

Jason Kolb — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:28:14 +0000

I love that last paragraph man it had me LOL

Comment on Why thoughts matter… by Julian Bleecker

Julian Bleecker — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 21:51:35 +0000

Yeah, David â€” I’m pretty sure you’ve described what my argument boils down to, and it’s pretty simple. It’s sort of an anti-instrumentalist thing. It’s why, somewhere in the “Manifesto for Networked Objects” I try to describe “Blogjects” as not the same old thing as that old problem of machine-to-machine communication, or even data feeds in a traditional way, mostly because we know that something else is now possible because of (new) massively networked digital publics.

You can’t possibly assume what people will do with the resources available to them â€” either the raw material or the capability to make new meaningful statements or change their worlds based on the consumption and repurposing/reprocessing of those raw materials. This is what the circulation of culture feels like on a large, digital networked scale. Data resources that things like Blogging Objects will provide as consumables, or the ability, now (and never before) for social beings to produce new meaning of an infinite variety based on things like what they consume present an entirely new framework for shifting the way the world works.

It can go any of a number of ways simultaneously â€” supression, massive cultural change, political upheaval, culturally starved and bankrupt societies. Who knows, but the change can be made and, the best part, it’s barely pre-determined. (I guess unless you’re in China.)