Author: Andy Wibbels

Chris Dixon on the difference: when something is subtle/ambiguous, blog it instead of tweeting it. some of my tweets about twitter’s platform strategy have been taken to be highly critical of twitter when in fact I love the product/company and just want to see them execute a strong platform strategy. via my personal blogging/tweeting rules – cdixon’s posterous.

Acclaimed journalist, author and political activist Barbara Ehrenreich explores the darker side of positive thinking, delusion, amorality, war and optimism as a form of social control. “How could [class and inequality] be a problem if anyone can be rich just by thinking about it?” Her words and concepts are illustrated by RSA Animate. RSA Animate […]

Famed underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar just passed away. His life was featured in the 2003 movie American Splendor based on his autobiographical comics series. Here’s a little bit into Pekar’s view on his As a kid, Pekar was almost as obsessive about comic books as he’d been about jazz. (And literature. And boxing.) […]

Veteran business blogger Rich Brooks unravels the ZOMFG BLOGS ARE MAGICAL fruit punch: A blog won’t help your business. Just like that StairMaster gathering dust in your basement won’t make you thin. Or a hammer won’t help you build those shelves if you don’t pick it up.   … When you start blogging it can be […]

Pixar is one of the few places I’d kill to work at. Their attention to creativity and extremely high product quality always blows my mind. I recently watched the opening of Up again and it is absolute perfection. Pixar’s leadership knows that they have to put the creative process at the heart of their company […]

I always love hearing stories of dedication to virtuosity: that you do the best possible job and push you skills to the limit simply because it feels good to get better at what you do. Here’s an essay Jerry Seinfeld wrote eulogizing George Carlin’s after his death a couple years ago: I called him to […]

The 3i blog looks at the classic What’s in it for me? stance and marketing via social media channels: With the new age of social media, any type of outreach efforts must answer two questions to be relevant and impactful: “What’s in it for me?” & “How will it provide value to my network?”. … You […]

The ultimate personal brand lives on long after the person is gone. Great 60 Minutes segment on agents who represent deceased celebrities, artists, authors and athletes.

From Toby Bloomberg: Here are 5 questions that might help you find the secrets to make your next social media magic act “real.” 1. What is real for our customers? Books. An eBook, an iPad or Kindle book or a hard copy ‘dead tree’ book? 2. What is real for our customers? Relationships. Relationships begun […]

Downtime, data centers and gross incompetence:   José Carrilho August 7, 2010 at 12:01 pm Hi, Among several facts that didctate the success of social networks, is one that I find influent: the media. Like social networks have influence nowdays, also the number of users and visits that they get is conditioned by how and […]