October 2009
162 posts
Nov 13: TWLOHA Day - write Love on your arms
lanipauli:
I was introduced to To Write Love On Her Arms in early 2009 and after reading ‘Purpose for the Pain’ was moved by the story enclosed in the book. Past and present personal experiences connected me to the story told by Renee and can only be grateful that there is initiatives such as TWLOHA and others operating today to help people through the pain - to help them see that there are...
WatchDigital Strangelove, a rather long, but well articulated commentary on the modern media space.
By David Gillespie
“People who love only once in their lives are… shallow people. What they call...”
– Oscar Wilde (via justbesplendid)
“If there is one thing we now know beyond doubt it is that emotional persuasion...”
– Adliterate
An interesting discussion in class tonight about emotional responses and advertising reminded me of this quote that I read today. It seems like common sense, but a lot of brands (and people) seem unable to either grasp the concept, OR think creatively enough to come up with an idea that...
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in...”
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)
Hood Internet - Phoenix + Biz + Classixxx
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“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via chloelikesthis)
WatchA great description of Storytelling as Advertising and how a brand can benefit from it by Big Spaceship’s Ivan Askwith
“Mary Gates mentioned her son’s new business to Opel, who by many accounts then...”
– Tim Ferriss, Do You Really Know Bill Gates? The Myth of the Entrepreneur as Risk-Taker. (via soupsoup)
“Dear America: you can’t have an economy based on narcissism, good intentions,...”
– Scott Locklin: “In which I stomp on some of our glorious “green shoots” (brilliant and insightful as always) (via alexjcampbell)
“On a bell curve, the timid and the reckless are the outliers. The one-third who...”
– Jeff Staple responding to an article in Wired on being a risk taker in life and in business.
“A second experiment on outsiders was conducted by economists at Northwestern...”
– Ethan Zuckerman on the benefits of ‘Outsider Intelligence’
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“I’ve seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via langer) (via wearethedigitalkids)
“Facebook accounts for 25% of U.S. online pageviews.”
– Perry Drake in Business Insider