I’m absolutely loving this Yu Wan Mei takeover of The Onion.
In case you don’t know, The Onion is a satirical newspaper, and Yu Wan Mei is a fictional company.
Dame Edna once said something to the effect “if you have to explain satire – don’t bother”, and that was in reference to the controversy over a [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
Jul 24
Yu Wan Mei takeover of The Onion
Jul 21
Social Analytics and the Triple Bottom Line
I hope to embark on some Internet Serious Business work that links community with government with some industry. There’s a large social analytics piece in all of this that I’m looking forward to.
The triple bottom line can be summed up as “profit, people, planet”. Basically, accounting for social and environmental impacts as well as the [...]
Jul 10
“Simplicity” and “Complexity”
I think that sometimes, it’s human nature to try to add complexity to seek a competitive advantage.
Sometimes there’s competitive advantage in Ease. In easyness. In simplicity.
A good example is the difference between Windows and the original command line DOS. Another is between Mac OX and Windows.
Simplicity isn’t easy though.
It’s far easier to pound out a [...]
Jul 05
Michael Jackson and Honduras
Whether it’s Elitist or not to point out the disparity, the fact remains that these kinds of media flares have become standard.
Lynn Rosenvall taught me that the world is divided up into large media zones. There’s no conspiracy about them – regions of the world just have different points of view and are dominated by [...]