People Can’t Pass Off the Responsibility of their Cybersecurity
“You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto." – Agent Bob, “Hackers ,” United Artists, 1995
Forget the fact that corporate executives and government officials are in an uproar about the reported computer hardware supply chain hack.
You can’t do anything about it.
Right now, it’s just the storyline for a great sci-fi movie.
Engaging Live Audience – Teams, Players, Fans --Want it NOW
“Well you know I've never met the guys. So, you'll have to tell me their names, and then I'll know who's playing on the team.” – Bud Costello, “The Naughty Nineties ,” Universal Pictures, 1945
Back before we cut the cord, we wondered if perhaps football and golf were losing their charm (and audience) because of over exposure. After all, we had five football, some baseball, soccer and NASCAR channels, as well as two golf channels in our big bundle and not everyone was really a sports fan ... right?
Okay, Super Bowl (love the ads) and the tail end of Tiger Woods’ coming back to win a major tournament after a five-year dry spell were big draws but other than that, not so much.
DTC Winners Need Quality, Quantity, Focus
“Live together, die together, works when you have to keep on fighting. Totally sucks in real life.” – Nolan, “Defiance ,” 2013-2015, Five and Dime Productions
People learn it in Marketing 101 – don’t mention your competition in your pitch and certainly don’t knock them.
When you do you make the prospect think, “Gee, maybe I should take a closer look at them.” or worse, “Darn, hadn’t even considered them … ‘till now.”
And yet, the boss just can’t seem to keep from poking fun at the competition; or worse, saying they’re not even in the company’s marketplace.
M&E Evolution Helps All of the Visual Story Industry
“Do not eat me when I save your life!” – D’Leh, “10,000 BC,” Warner Bros., 2008
Recently, I read in BBC News about this little fossilized thing (deuterostome) about the size of a grain of sand that was discovered in Central China, and is a 540-million-year-old ancestor of you and me - http://tinyurl.com/gpo6sxk .