Month: August 2010

  • Are ads in books such a bad idea?

    I conducted an ad hoc and wholly unscientific poll among a handful of my friends the other day about the possibility of advertising coming to books. It produced some strong (and predictable) negative reactions. Hell freezing, dead bodies and metaphors…

  • Shopkick may redefine consumer loyalty

    One of the memorable scenes for me in the 2002 film Minority Report is the bit where the hero John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise, goes on the run and finds himself in a shopping mall. In the society of…

  • The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #560: August 16, 2010

    Content summary: FIR Live #18 posted; David Parmet joins Converseon; listener comments; 5 minutes on… Twitter’s official tweet button has arrived, a few mobile web stats and facts, HP has lost its way, GAP offering FourSquare discount; the Media Monitoring…

  • With social media, there are no editors

    The Dry Erase / Whiteboard Girl hoax – the story of the girl who supposedly quit her job and explained it all in a series of 33 photos of text she wrote on a whiteboard – makes me think of…

  • Ten topics from a good week

    There’s a distinctly autumnal look and feel to things this chilly Sunday morning as I sit at the desk in my home office with a second cup of tea of the day and my RSS reader, the digital equivalent of…