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Screwing Up The Brand Experience

I’ve written before about the danger of becoming a helicopter brand. The way to avoid this of course is to constantly deliver on your brand promise and then over deliver when you don’t. Case in point: This week I’m in Atlanta chaperoning my daughter and one of her friends at the Us Fencing Summer Nationals. [...]

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Coffee AND Sex

A couple weeks ago I wrote about coffee enhanced with the essence of bacon. Then I found this new blend of coffee that can deliver an enhancement that that is even more compelling than the flavor of bacon. What could that be you ask? Why sex of course. Yes, Magic Power Coffee is a special [...]

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The Most Dangerous Of All Delusions

The belief that one’s own view of reality is the only reality is the most dangerous of all delusions. – Paul Watzlawick Not a week goes by when I’m not talking with someone who makes a sweeping generalization about how people act based solely on their own personal experience.  I know that I get caught [...]

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Coffee AND Bacon

Amongst the many things that I love, two that I love the best are coffee and bacon. Now like the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup you got your peanut butter in my chocolate ads, here are two great tastes that taste great together in one steaming hot mug.  At $7.49 for an 8oz bag Maple Bacon [...]

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Free Comic Book Day 2010

Remember when you were a kid with a few coins, not enough to go see Star Wars again or the latest knock off that was trying to fleece you of your hard earned lawn mowing or car washing bucks?  So you schlep down to the corner store or 7-11 looking for some way to satisfy [...]

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Digital Spring

It is really spring in New England. Not the dark, rainy, miserable season where blossoms and crocuses are beaten by cold, heavy rain till they are quickly lost and then rapidly followed by 80 degree full on summer. This year it is like the springs of my youth in Washington, DC where buds and tulips [...]

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Tagxedo: Outstanding Tag Cloud Creator

Tagxedo is an amazingly easy and flexible tag cloud creator that was just launched.  It allows you to upload text, point it to a url  or even use data (though I’m not sure how that is achieved, in order to generate a tag cloud that you can then customize the color, font, text direction, shape [...]

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Hyman Bloom Documentary Film Premier At The Museum of Fine Art, Boston

Early in his career, Hyman Bloom was known as one of the “bad boys of Boston.” A contemporary of Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning who called him “the first abstract artist in America,” he was one of 18 artists from around the country chosen for MOMAs prestigious 1942 exhibit, one of only seven artists [...]

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Happy Ada Lovelace Day

Today is Ada Lovelace Day, the day to celebrate the contributions of women toward technology and named in the honor of Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace who wrote the first computer program, a method for calculating Bernoulli numbers using Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine. I knew who Ada Lovelace was, but had never seen her [...]

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Staying Fresh By Mixing It Up

With the start of a new year last month we all talked a lot about making changes.  A simple one that we discussed was to make small adjustments to our habits as a way of keeping the brain fresh and avoiding things like Alzheimer’s Disease. I’m in favor of that so since the start of [...]

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