Writing
90 posts, newest first, going back to 2009.
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2024
Jan 11Up in the Air 2.0: Terminated by Zoom
In 2009, Up in the Air imagined firing people over video to save money, and treated it as the dystopian option. Fifteen years later a Cloudflare employee filmed her own termination by two strangers, and posted it.
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2019
Apr 23If Instagram Likes Go Away, It’s the Beginning of the End for Influencers
Late last week, a TechCrunch story made the rounds on Twitter that Instagram was considering removing the likes count from organic feed posts.
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2019
Apr 1I (Don’t) Want My IGTV
Despite massive popularity, unrivaled cultural relevance and a billion daily active users, Instagram can’t seem to figure out long-form video.
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2019
Mar 14Instagram, Tom Sawyer, The Terminator and Don Draper
I'm almost convinced Facebook staged Wednesday's all-day near-blackout on purpose.
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2019
Feb 24Chasing snow at Zion National Park: How to market a unique experience
Marketing is all about creating urgency. In most cases, though, that urgency is manufactured and not authentic. When you get a "limited-time offer," it's generally because sales are slow, and not because quantities are running out.
