It’s early Saturday morning, my wife just went to work, and residing in my mental register are about eight things that take drastically higher priority over writing a blog post.
So heeeeyyyeeeeeere I am. Top of the morning to you. I’ve got a date with the farmers’ market in about an hour, so let’s [...]
Speaking of TED talks, on Thursday Baltimore played host to TEDx MidAtlantic.
Among many brain-bending talks was one by Joel Salatin, the now-famous farmer from Polyface Farms.
In Joel’s talk he challenged us to bring nobility and sacredness to our work. He said:
My success is tied to the cumulative effect of everyday stories, and faithfulness to [...]
A few days ago Devon Smith announced she’s been working on quantifying how well LORT theaters use Twitter.
This is neat. I like this idea, and in the spirit of public feedback about it, here’s, uh, some public feedback:
The Metrics I Generally Dig
@mentions — Measuring mentions captures something about both re-tweets and conversations. Both [...]
I’ve mentioned before my attempts to suss out a philosophy of marketing. I’ve got plenty of sussing left to do, but some central principles are becoming relatively clear.
Central principle number one? Be remarkable. Be worthy of remark.
Easy enough to say, I know. But I’m not so sure it’s actually that hard [...]
Ever since jotting down a few observations on theater’s crappy business model, I’ve found myself mildly obsessed with finding a solution to the problem of funding theater.
Why?
I’m not sure. Because I love it, I guess. Because although I’m not convinced the arts are strictly necessary, I am convinced they’re one way we make [...]