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American mobility: all the places I’ve lived – 2011 update

Posted on 2011.05.16 by winterSmith 36 comments

If you’ve been around awhile, then yes, you have seen this item before, a couple of times. It originally posted on Jan. 25, 2008 and was updated on April 19, 2010. Unfortunately, I tend to move a lot, and it’s about to happen again. So every time I pull up the tent and head off somewhere else, I’ll be refreshing

The Internet is dead! Long live … television?

Posted on 2007.07.28 by winterSmith 5 comments

So says Mark Cuban. Now, I’m typically a big Cuban fan. But I’m looking at an AdAge report on his remarks from yesterday’s Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit, and I’m a little puzzled. Speaking at the Cable Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM) Summit in Washington yesterday, Mr. Cuban declared “the Internet is dead” in an otherwise subdued panel

Campaign mobile: it’s 1996 all over again

Posted on 2007.06.28 by winterSmith 5 comments

Every time a new medium catches our attention we have to endure this awkward period where people who have decision-making and spending authority but no understanding of the medium at all treat it like it’s the old media they’re used to. Old assumptions, old practices … failure. It’s like in 1996 when ad agencies discovered the Internet. “I know, let’s

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Campaign mobile update: from bad to worse to what the heck?

Posted on 2007.06.27 by winterSmith 4 comments

A couple days ago I had some comments on Obama, Clinton and Edwards and their respective mobile marketing activities. Turns out I was wrong about a couple facts, but finding that out has now opened the door to some new questions and concerns. Here’s where we currently stand:

Obama campaign [third] to launch mobile, [third] to screw it up

Posted on 2007.06.25 by winterSmith 6 comments

[UPDATE: turns out he’s not the first after all – see comments below for details.] I’ve been yarping for months that no political campaign had yet launched mobile. There’s this massive youth generation that’s setting records for political and community activity, the mobile phone is one of their favorite things in the world, and all these politicians and their high-priced

Could more lives have been saved at Virginia Tech?

Posted on 2007.04.17 by winterSmith 7 comments

I’m going to try and do this without looking like a vulture – I hate those who profiteer off the misfortunes of others and don’t want to be guilty of that crime myself – so let me begin with full disclosure. I’m a principal in a mobility consulting firm that offers the kinds of services I’m going to describe below.

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