Month: March 2010

  • Knoxville video has gone viral

    TV reporter Gordon Boyd’s unfortunate “technical difficulties” have gone “randomly viral” on YouTube. The big social media blog Mashable linked to it today and the YouTube video has topped 137,000 views since being posted on March 5, 2010. Here is the take of the News Sentinel’s Terry Morrow and also of Metro Pulse.

  • Make it a talker

    I want to give you more, not less. I don’t think McDonalds will assume that as long as you keep it in a yellow box, people will buy a smaller, drier Big Mac. Yet our industry seems to think people are so obligated to buy it, we can make something smaller and drier and people…

  • If we could only get you to screw off more at work

    … and at home, too, for that matter. However, visitors to online newspaper sites don’t spend a lot of time there. The average amount of time looking at online news is about 70 seconds a day, while the average amount of time spent reading the physical newspaper is about 25 minutes a day. Not surprisingly,…