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Will that be paper or plastic? Neither!
- October 18, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Innovation, Media, News
No CommentsToday, the editor of Newsweek, Tina Brown, announced the magazine will cease publication at the end of 2012. While this announcement does not represent the singular defining moment in the demise of the print industry, it is, certainly, emblematic of it. The tablet industry, popularized by the almost ubiquitous iPad, has been the catalyst of
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The PIPA/SOPA-pera: Hollywood Versus Silicon Valley
- January 20, 2012
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Copyright Infringement, High-tech, Media, News
Protect IP Act (PIPA), emanating from the U.S. Senate, and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), from the U.S. House of representatives, have unleashed activism on a major scale. Disgusted by the lack of forethought in the construct of these two bills, major web-site operators initiated black-outs that spawned angry phone calls, e-mails, and telegrams
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NBC Revitalization – An Attempt to Put Humpty Dumpty Back on the Wall
- January 27, 2011
- Posted by: Ted Bullen
- Category: Brand Revitalization, Cultural Change, Media, News
The old English nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty, first appeared with slightly different lyrics than we know them in our day: Humpty Dumpty sate on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall; Threescore men and threescore more, Cannot place Humpty Dumpty as he was before. (Joseph Ritson, Grammer Gurton’s Garland: or, the Nursery Parnassus; a
