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The Mashup Class

Copy, combine and transform. Remixing and mashing up culture, and defining a generation. The Mashup Class.

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Intentionally Passive Music Composition

Intentionally passive music composition has interested me for quite some time. This is the idea that we can create music by strategically planning for specific…

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And this is your brain on technology…any questions?

Does consuming information online affect comprehension and retention of information?

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A Digital Rolling Stone 3.0 – Composition in the Digital Age

In this installment of A Digital Rolling Stone, we analyze the composition and creation of music in the digital age via several case studies.

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The departure of an athlete, the death of a true Cleveland original, and the new frontier…

If I didn't address this at all, I think I would be disappointed in myself...so here goes. My slightly personal post about Lebron James, Cleveland, and the…

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Unconsumption

When we were kids it was pretty much beaten into us that planet earth was in danger + the only way to save the planet was to "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle." Perhaps…

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A Digital Rolling Stone 2.0

It seems only appropriate that I'm finally finishing the second installment of "A Digital Rolling Stone," a month after the tenth anniversary of the Recording…

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The Great Race to Brand the Clouds

The benefits of technology and more specifically the internet, seem to be endless: information and data accessibility, entertainment, commerce, ease of…

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Open Source: The Model Is About Branding

The traditional business model for companies is to create a product and/or provide a service to customers in order to receive payment and hopefully exceed…

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Creativity: The Essence of Change

A look at creativity in advertising, an economic recession and its affect on urban revitalization. The great David Ogilvy once said, "It takes a big idea to…

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The Convergence of Cognitive Neuroscience and Marketing

A few years ago, I read an article in the New York Times that explained the convergence of cognitive neuroscience and marketing. Since then I have been very…

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A Digital Rolling Stone 1.0

Over the past few months, I have noticed that in the back of Rolling Stone there have been a few rotating lists such as Myspace Music Top 10 Songs, iLike Top…

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