November 2009
53 posts
Revolution ~ Young will abandon social media if brands get to pushy →
revolutionmagazine.com
An interest consideration: how will younger demographics respond to over engagement from brands and advertising bombardment on their social media. I disagree with the notion that young people will abandon social media all together if it becomes too crowded with with brand messaging. I would think today’s kids would just utilize their ingenuity and harness the democratic power of the internet to form new networks and communities. After all young people are responsible for the rise in popularity of social media and brands are just trying to keep up. We’ll probably see long-tail economics rear its head and social media will split into niche communities where the kids can avoid too much mainstream branding or selling out.
this article in revolution does provide a good case for pull strategy advertising though.
Video: 予選大会模様 Phatty Maria ~ 2007 Dancehall Queen Japan →
players.tv
this girl can dutty wine like nothing else. get ‘em girl! everyone else would just break their necks.
(Soz ~ couldn’t get the video to embed, but this should not be missed)
Pigeon Rock
Sister Nancy
sister nancy (diplo dub) ~ pigeon rock
20% off at Urban Outfitters UK on Thurs
i knew this day would come and been waiting to get a few things >.<’ yeah!
(in store and online ~ promotional code: happythursday)
The Envoy
One day in that room, a small rat.
Two days later, a snake.
Who, seeing me enter,
whipped the long stripe of his
body under the bed,
then curled like a docile house-pet.
I don’t know how either came or left.
Later, the flashlight found nothing.
For a year I watched
as something — terror? happiness? grief? —
entered and then left my body.
Not knowing how it came in,
Not knowing how it went out.
It hung where words could not reach it.
It slept where light could not go.
Its scent was neither snake nor rat,
neither sensualist nor ascetic.
There are openings in our lives
of which we know nothing.
Through them
the belled herds travel at will,
long-legged and thirsty, covered with foreign dust.
~ Jane Hirshfield, “The Envoy” from Given Sugar, Given Salt. Copyright © 2001 by Jane Hirshfield. HarperCollins Publishers.
