So here’s a contribution to a symposium on our president that I wrote in the form of advice. An excerpt follows: Maybe our president can fend off creeping Tea-Partyism only by […]
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Innovation is built into the American way of life, says former President Jimmy Carter. “Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, […]
The CFR Asia studies director lists the top thought leaders driving the country forward.
Even when you control for cultural differences, lesbians in the workplace still make significantly more money, on average, than heterosexual women.
What did the American Revolution look like? Nathaniel Hawthorne imagined it as an angry face, painted so as to appear divided in two, perhaps caught between principle and pragmatism.
Ices stripped off a long-lost moon may have provided the raw materials for Saturn’s rings and inner satellites before the Titan-twin slammed into its mother planet, new research shows.
The U.S. is anxious to broaden its influence in Central Asia—and limit that of Russia. The result, however, are questionable alliances with some of the strangest despots in the world.
If we continue on our current path of unbridled consumerism and environmental destruction, the most likely future scenario is one in which the quality of human lives is relatively low.
Gone are the days when classical artists could offer performances of Mozart and simply expect people to show up. Orchestras and presenters must be more entrepreneurial, more risk-ready.
There are plenty of places on Earth that seem alien to us. The deep sea is a perfect example: it’s been said that we know more about Mars than we do about the bottom of the ocean.
Exploring open relationships can change our assumptions about intimacy and empowerment, and give excitement to a world otherwise determined by the limits of the present culture.
For thousands of years aspirin has been humanity’s wonder drug. Taking it for five to ten years easily beats initiatives to screen for breast and prostate cancers, says The Economist.
Are iPhones and Blackberries becoming extensions of our thinking selves? Andy Clark says they are a kind of cognitive prosthetic that fits the niche of our biological brains.
Whatever one’s views on the initial case for making drugs illegal, the cost has been tremendous, and in many aspects unanticipated, says Nobel Laureate Gary Becker.
This is your chance to decide what content exists about marketing online – scroll down to read more and leave a comment with your response. Astute readers who visit this […]
A majority of Americans who’ve suffered kidney failure go to Medicare-certified treatment centers three times weekly for dialysis. Many of these are part of large chains, that are for-profit businesses. […]
If you read as much about art as I do, things that seem unrelated on the surface tend to pool together in the eddies of my consciousness. Two unrelated concepts […]
The 21st century belongs to China. As the societies of Europe and the United States plateau, developing countries in Asia and South America are racing forward at an unprecedented pace—with […]
Today, Bing announced it has become a Facebook Instant Personalization partner, and is going to start using like data to change the way you comprehend your search results on Bing. […]
It’s my great pleasure to unveil something we’ve been working on for the last little bit, 3 simple announcements from my company:nWe announced this morning some really exciting news, parts […]
Facebook Likes are the new audience interaction. More than 50 people liked my post on Facebook simplifying their Facebook Page management tools on the Involver blog, yet only one person […]
“To me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very noisy world, and we’re not gonna get a chance to get people to remember much […]
I’m fascinated by people and companies who benefit from good content creation to support non-content business objectives: n n Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, and Mark Suster have materially changed the […]
I have a serious problem with how I find, attend to, curate, add to, and finally, publish information. Here’s my basic flow today: n n I use Facebook, Twitter, RSS, […]
Twitter has announced 3 things in 2010 that are horribly under-discussed, under-valued, and under-experimented on from a brand marketing perspective. As a brand strategist, I’ve been spending a tremendous amount of time thinking about […]
I’m in New York today for the Estee Lauder Digital Media day. As I write this from the show floor in Chelsea, I look out upon 13 market leading digital […]
I penned a blog post that’s over 900 words about the Facebook Places launch as seen by Marketers. In it I discuss 13 facts about how Places will affect businesses. […]
An organization I’m working with is looking to hire a design-thinker to help build an exceptional global brand. n If you’re waiting in the wind to be the next Eston […]
On a recent vacation, I experienced a fit of “small thoughts.” n For a few hours, every few minutes my brain was coming up with somewhat interesting tidbits that were […]
I recently migrated my site to a new domain, and I took an interest in seeing how simply this could be done. Could I, for example, create a list of […]