July 2nd, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Business, Culture
TNT seems to be the first major media outlet that gets why having videos of their programs on their site is important. Other channels run ads pushing viewers to their sites, but generally the reasons cited to visit are pretty weak IMHO. I mean I don’t want to join a message board about Lost, download […]
July 1st, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Books, Culture, Gaming
One of the underlining concepts of Steven Johnson’s Everything is Bad is Good for You is the Sleeper Curve. Taken from Woody Allen’s mock sci-fi film, Sleeper has a sequence where scientists from 2173 are stunned, amazed even that twentieth-century society failed to realize the nutritional merits of cream pies and hot fudge.
Johnson builds off […]
June 22nd, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture, Music, Technology
NPD Group Music Watch has just released a report that highlights for the first quarter of 2007, covering both physical and downloadable music, Apple’s iTunes is now the third-largest US music retailer. During the quarter iTunes had a 9.8 percent market share. Wal-Mart remains the nation
June 16th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Branding, Business, Culture
I think this is just great news. Kellogg announced a few days ago that it will stop advertising its products to children under age 12 unless the foods meet specific nutrition guidelines for calories, sugar, fat, and sodium. In the same press release Kellogg also announced that it would stop using licensed characters or branded […]
June 11th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Branding, Culture
The iPhone is coming, the iPhone is coming, the iPhone is coming on June 29th.
May 9th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture, Photography, Technology
This is just a stunning new television that was announced by Pioneer in Europe a few days ago, with the code name of Project Kuro. I’ve been holding off getting a Plasma/HDTV television for a while, but not sure how much longer I can wait. This Pioneer should be a nice, all though expensive, addition […]
May 7th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture, Technology
There has been a lot of heated debate in the political corners of the Web related to the fact MSNBC would not release their video of the presidential debates under a Creative Commons license so it can used anyway people want. From uploading it to YouTube to remixing it, you name it.
Of course MSNBC would […]
April 23rd, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture
What a cruel month April has been to great American writers and journalist. First Kurt Vonnegut and now David Halberstam. The Washington Post and MSNBC reports he died today in a car crash. Halberstam was an amazing war correspondent, the winner of pretty much every journalism award, including the Pulitzer Price. But he also […]
April 11th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture
This is sad, just sad news. Counterculture author Kurt Vonnegut has died at the age of 84. It is being reported it was because of brain injuries caused by a fall several weeks ago. I don’t have time to write more now, but next to maybe Tom Robbins, Vonnegut was not only my favorite author, […]
April 10th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture, Music, Technology
Well it has been mentioned on just about every tech blog and tech site all across the net. Apple has shipped its 100 millionth iPod. Pretty amazing since it was done in just over 5 years. Since its November 2001 launch, Apple has introduced more than 10 new models that went from just playing music […]
April 1st, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture
Well I would think somebody on the staff of Presidential hopeful John McCain
March 18th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture
Just an amazing picture of the Queen Elizabeth II passing under the Golden Gate bridge. Many moons ago I had the chance to spend two weeks on the QE II’s sister ship, the Cunard Princess. You want to talk about traveling in style. It was a vacation I’ll never forget, partly cause I found out […]
March 1st, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Business, Culture
The Onion has a great story up that could just as easily be true: Viacom Demands YouTube Pull 400,000 Ex-TV Viewers From Its Site. The article reads in part:*
In a cease-and-desist letter sent to Google’s attorneys last week, media conglomerate Viacom demanded that YouTube immediately pull 400,000 ex-TV viewers from its industry-leading video-sharing site.
"These viewers […]
February 25th, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Blogs, Culture, Technology
There have been numerous blog posts about the Digg Effect (one of the best analysis is here). Although I’ve written close to 600 posts here, I had never been Dugg. I’ve thought about posting my own stories to Digg, but that seems pretty darn cheesy. I mean I get more then 100 visits a day […]
February 1st, 2007 | by Tommy | published in Culture
Unless you live under a rock you’ve already heard that Boston, our sixth largest city, was shut down for a nearly a day by a guerrilla marketing campaign for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim show Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Ok, now the news media has totally lost control (although some would argue that happened a long time […]
Hi, I'm Tommy. I'm an interactive marketing executive, writer, tech geek, and sometime designer. I live in St. Louis, Missouri. I currently work as a marketing consultant.
weBranding is my creative outlet, testbed, and digital playground. You’ll find articles and posts about interactive marketing, online publishing and community development, information architecture, graphic design, gaming, and all things digital. To contact me you can send an e-mail to tommy [at] weBranding [dot] org.
