Effective Immediately.
brokengentleman.com is closed for business.
brokengentleman.com is closed for business.
posted by jon crowley at 4:29 PM 1 comments
I've changed my twitter account from @brokengentleman to @joncrowley.
posted by jon crowley at 9:06 AM 0 comments
brokengentleman has been stagnating somewhat, and I've decided a bit of a change of pace is necessary to keep it interesting and relevant.
posted by jon crowley at 1:13 PM 2 comments
tags: attention industry, blogs, PSA
The New York Times launched v2.0 of the TimesReader app today, and it's pretty but useless unless you plan on paying in the neighbourhood of $180 a year to have the website in an app, with better formatting.
posted by jon crowley at 2:21 PM 0 comments
tags: applications, micropayments, new york times, news
Back in 2007 (in a less focused time for this blog), I predicted that someone would make a sci-fi product based on the Svalbard Seed Vault.
posted by jon crowley at 11:54 AM 0 comments
tags: comics, prediction
I found the ad to the right looking at the latest iteration of This Magazine's website. It looks great, and I like the magazine, so I have less than no problem using my blog as ad space for them.
posted by jon crowley at 11:23 AM 0 comments
tags: advertising, magazines, new media, print media, publishing
Whenever there is an online backlash against a brand or product, one of the first things I hear (or usually read) is a reminder that those voicing concerns aren't a large part, and at times aren't even a significant part, of the overall audience / customer base.
posted by jon crowley at 3:46 PM 0 comments
tags: communication, ground war, pr, social media
When digital information storage and transfer became the norm, businesses (really, almost all of us) made the same, erroneous assumption: that the content was the value, and the object was waste.
posted by jon crowley at 12:52 PM 0 comments
tags: business, capitalism, copyright, digital distribution, strategy
[This post is something of a placeholder, transcribing notes I put together for what will hopefully be a somewhat interesting presentation.]
posted by jon crowley at 7:29 PM 0 comments
tags: communication, perception, pr, strategy
I've been reading webcomics for about a decade, now, and every year I get more convinced that no one has figured out the new economic reality better than webcomic creators. And I'm not talking about the Penny Arcade level death-star goldmine webcomic creators. I'm talking about the one-and-two person operations, and the 'collectives'.
posted by jon crowley at 11:18 AM 0 comments
tags: business, capitalism, comics, strategy, webcomics