Share: Maria Perez, Father In Production on ‘Restart’ Movie

Former CBS co-worker Maria Perez is going on a RV road trip adventure with her father, creating a podcast and documentary film along the way. From her promotional site: Experience… For a retiree and a millennial, it’s a loaded word. After over 50 years of hard labor and starting his life over multiple times and… Read More »

Share: U.S. Internet Users Lag Behind In Ad Blocking

According to a recent report from PageFair and Adobe, the use of ad blocking software has increased dramatically in recent years and is set to cost publishers over $20 billion in 2015. Approximately 198 million people across the globe use ad blocking software, according to the report, a 41 percent increase over the previous year.… Read More »

Share: Science Friction: Robots Will Kill Us All (Video)

Video series by Rusty Ward teams up with FW: Thinking to look at the future of AI and robots. Also see: http://metromemetics.net/share-fw-thinking-robots-will-save-us-all-video/ From the video description: Open Letter by Future of Life Institute http://futureoflife.org/misc/open_letter Scientists Warn of AI’s Dangers -LiveScience http://www.livescience.com/49419-artificial-intelligence-dangers-letter.html History of A.I. -LiveScience http://www.livescience.com/49419-artificial-intelligence-dangers-letter.html Thanks to Dr. Wolfgang Fink for allowing me to… Read More »

Excerpt: David Brooks’ When Cultures Shift

From an opinion piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks, something that plays into the generational marketing gap between Boomers, Gen X and Millennials. Then along came humanistic psychology, led by people like Carl Rogers, who was the most influential psychologist of the 20th century. Rogers followed the same basic line. Human nature is… Read More »

Share: Adam Wiener On Succeeding in the Media Industry (Video)

From the video description: When URI alumnus, Adam Wiener, graduated with a journalism degree in 1987, he had his sights set on working for a US print publication in Moscow because of his fascination with Cold War politics. He never imagined he would make a career for himself in a broadcast environment. Wiener now works… Read More »

Share: Car Drivers Still Tune In To Radio

Even though music downloading and streaming services are becoming increasingly popular, there is still one place where the good old radio reigns supreme: the automobile. According to Edison Research, 84 percent of American drivers use their AM/FM radio at least some of the time, compared to 56 percent who still use their CD player and… Read More »

Share: CGP Grey: This Video Will Make You Angry (Video)

Video uses the term “thought germ” more than meme, but illustrates how emotion ties in as a vector in the spread of ideas – including the birth and escalation of emotion-fueled counter-memes. Reddit discussion thread about “This Video Will Make You Angry”: https://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/2yjs25/this_video_will_make_you_angry/ Related: “What Makes Online Content Viral?” By Jonah A. Berger & Katherine… Read More »

Share: L2 Top 10 Brands Using Digital 2014

From the video description: How are the best brands in the world using digital to stand apart from the pack? L2 lists top 10 innovations from brands plucked from an algorithm that yielded 52 Geniuses and 400 Feeble ranks in 2014: REI’s ‘1440 Project’ aggregates user-generated content for every minute of the day. Red Bull’s… Read More »