Category Archives: Cognitive Funding

Why Avengers ROCKS + Top 5 Superhero Movies

Yesterday my almost-seven-year-old son and I took in a 3D matinee of “The Avengers” and had a blast. We loved it so much that we plan to see it again in iMax. The movie has everything—Joss Whedon directing off a … Continue reading

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Facebook as serendipity engine

I check Facebook several times each day, each time for a minute or two. I have it on my Treo and can check it in bad traffic (yeah, yeah, I know) and enjoy how it keeps me connected or reconnects … Continue reading

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Now tracking: Google's latest deal

Don’t miss iMedia’s recent coverage of Google’s deal with Media Rights Capital (You can also see the Variety story here) to create online content and syndicate it with ads thoughout the web.  Google is making the content free to sites … Continue reading

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Update: Here is Yusuf Islam singing the other role in "Father and Son"

After Missy commented on my last post, which had a brief discussion of Yusuf Islam/Cat Stevens, I turned to Veoh and found the Ronan Keating and Yusuf Islam duet of “Father and Son,” in which Islam/Stevens takes on the other … Continue reading

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Sometimes the media stay the same and the change is in YOU

Fair warning, y’all, this here is a post that combines the personal and the theoretical. Recently, I bought the new Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) album, “An Other Cup.”  If you liked his old stuff, you’ll like this.  Since he … Continue reading

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Harry Potter and the Perils of Extra-Narrative Pressure

I finished “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” yesterday, and it was good– a satisfying end to a seven part epic. However, outside of the classroom never before have I felt such extra-narrative pressure to finish a book as quickly … Continue reading

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AOL, TACODA and the Anatomization of All Media

The web is buzzing about AOL’s acquisition of TACODA, the behavioral targeting ad network and technology company. What the heck is behavioral targeting? For Mediavorous readers who don’t spend a lot of time thinking about interactive marketing, behavioral targeting (BT) … Continue reading

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