Human+Brand+Love | Michael Jackson
Loving the good, the bad, the ugly and the beautiful. I've written about that idea of the human brand, which I might more effectively relate to the notion of the "human torch" -- a fiery inspiration. Going back, thousands of years, into the mists of proto-history, the...
Human Brand | How about a hug?
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Warmth, affection, connection, community: physical social networks and emerging branding trends. It's been suggested that the phenomenon of teenagers hugging has something to do with Michelle Obama. She hugs everyone. She's even been...
Who do you love? Google | Social Networks?
Who do you trust? Facebook search engine results? Your friend's a brand. Google has long been the apex of search mechanisms, beating out the rivals of Yahoo, and still, so too, emergent entity bing.com. But Google has its sights on the social space, such as Facebook,...
Twitter-out | Twitter-in’
(Twitter founders: Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone, Evan Williams) Jessica B. Lifland | USA TODAY Who stays, who goes? I can't push too hard on the proposition that I have anything truly ground breaking, in the context of twitterology, the new science of micro-blogging. My...
The alphabet and the earth
Images credit The geography of the mind, mapped in place In a way, any drawing that we create, is a kind of signature. Designing is demarcation. And the origin of the alphabet, stretching back 3,500 to 4,000 years ago, to the proto-sinaitic beginnings is, in fact, a...
200 million @ Facebook: Brand and Human Storytelling
What brands face, in Facebook? Many, if their culture is robust enough... In the metaphor of communing, there are layers -- circles -- of connections that we have with each other and our friends. A drop, ripples. Stories are told -- they are shared, and they spread,...
Bing bada boom
Thoughts on bing, the new search engine for Microsoft Just days ago, the kick off. According to the overview from Microsoft, "the idea behind 'Manifesto' is to elicit an emotional response about a concept that is decidedly not emotional." And it's a tough call, to...
Calvin Trimpin | Sound mage
Photograph Peter Haley ©2009 The creation of sound, in place, made Decades ago, I was both a student, then instructor at Fort Worden. There were some amazing encounters -- George Tsutakawa, Karen Guzak, Mary Ann Peters, Barbara Schwartz, Elaine DeKooning, Sam Hamill...
What I wonder about: personal brands, icons and totems.
Why does Tim Girvin love crows and ravens? Some people have equated the raven as being something inextricably linked to me -- my personal brand. That is, when people see something on the raven, or the crow, they presume that I know about it, or should. And they tell...
Kindle, Amazon, Clouds and the Metaphor of Movement
Fire, the long river and the mist in the motion in learning Some time back, I was speaking (and working with) with a writer -- Kurt Dahl, a IT manager and strategist then for Nordstrom, about the idea of the future of the book. He didn't really believe in the book --...