Category Archives: Marketing

Quaint Media and Today’s Memetic Ecology

Written by Wes Unruh. Posted on October 14, 2009. Filed under Marketing, quaint media. 1 Comment.
This report begins where Gary Goldhammer begins, by stating that all media is social. The struggle today is between this notion of traditional, even quaint, media and convergence culture’s interactive narrative across a transmedia platform built for modular exposure of storytelling elements. Quaint media then is media that remains tied into a single [...]

Protests, Memory Eraser Drugs, Microearthquakes, and a PSA from Mojo Nixon

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on April 9, 2009. Filed under Associated Press, Cinema, Conspiracy/Fascism, Marketing, Occulture, Weird, Y, ap, documentary, dprgrm, film, foolish people, mojo nixon, piracy, reality tv, shopping, suicide, twitter. 4 Comments.
It’s time for another one of these posts. I’ve been planning to do this post since Sunday, but it was this tweet which made today’s refresher post imperative: Man accused of killing gas station attendant said he thought she was casting a spell on him http://tinyurl.com/cw29vj (via @JimMacMillan) More Headlines! Brain Researchers Open Door to Editing Memory That [...]

Norton Security Scan v. 2.0.0.87

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on February 11, 2009. Filed under Marketing, Norton Security Scan v. 2.0.0.87, Typhoid Mary, WTF!, Web. 1 Comment.
(ed. note: submitted anonymously) I think I just met Typhoid Mary. She wore all yellow and promised to save me from the world. She skirted around the corners of my desktop computer, trying to make herself look pretty yet harmless. She called herself Norton. aka Security Scan v. 2.0.0.87. I am not sure when I first met [...]

S.P.K. – Despair

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on January 6, 2009. Filed under Marketing, Music, Web, spk. No comments.
Spotted on Demonoid: http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1594844/2325700/ Review: Despair is certainly worth seeing for hardcore fans (who’ll probably have a tenth-generation dubbed copy already), those curious about the development of the early industrial music scene, and those proverbial ‘morbid curiosity-seekers’ who are supposed to flock to the scenes of murders and car crashes. In purely musical terms, though, [...]

This is My Milwaukee

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on November 24, 2008. Filed under Marketing, Weird, milwaukee. 3 Comments.
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Esoteric Sciences Roundtable: The Art of Memetics Interview

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on October 29, 2008. Filed under Books, Marketing, esoteric sciences roundtable, esr, meme, memetic, memetics. No comments.
Esoteric Sciences Roundtable The Art of Memetics Interview Wes Unruh Kory Kortis has been running ESR for six years now, and I was the last guest this season. We covered this view of memetics that I’ve been espousing, and hopefully I get some of the important ideas in the book across in the interview below. Kory [...]

Viral Infucktions

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on September 17, 2008. Filed under ARG, Marketing, Web, viral marketing. No comments.
Viral Infucktions James Curcio. Viral marketing. It’s become a buzzword that most people don’t understand, but more corporations are getting hot under the collar when they hear it. “I don’t know what this thing is Bob, but the kids love it!” And if you haven’t heard the term before, or don’t know what it is… Well, I’m [...]

The Networking Fallacy

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on July 25, 2008. Filed under Comix, Marketing, comic con, networking. 1 Comment.
The Networking Fallacy Conventions On Your Own Dime. James Curcio Some of you may wonder why I’m not at Comic Con. Well yes, part of it is because it is #*$&*@#*-ing expensive, at least if you intend on having a good time. It is a roving mob of walking advertisements. It is… well, to be honest, none of [...]

Fear and Ecstacy

Written by jcurcio. Posted on July 25, 2008. Filed under Marketing, Modern Mythology, brand, initiation, mythology, philosophy, tribalism. 5 Comments.
Modern myth: Fear and Ecstacy James Curcio I realize that in my last post in this column, I left a number of dangling threads which have been irking me since I hammered them out. If you’re a skeptical thinker, I’m sure you caught many of them yourselves. However, my thoughts lately have been gravitating back to yet another [...]

Modern myth- mythology and business.

Written by Joseph Matheny. Posted on July 16, 2008. Filed under Marketing, Modern Mythology, brand, mythology, philosophy. 1 Comment.
Modern myth: mythology and business. James Curcio As many of you have picked up- especially if you’ve been with us since the beginning- is that the idea of myth and how it relates to our “modern” lives is especially important to me. I think it should be to you as well, but unfortunately the function of myth [...]