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Mark Zorro — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:03:26 -0400

Norman, what’s important I think is the ability to keep a level head while opening up human foibles to personally examine them. The source well of great humour is happiness, but today a lot of our humour suffers from collective anxieties, so we use humour to infect each other, rather than prod, push and realize what we are personally examining is not a collective thing, but a different viewpoint of an elephant which usually mostly harmless.

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Mark Zorro — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:47:27 -0400

Norman - the punk rocker, the hippie and the rap artists are not quite dead yet either. The measurable I consider worth noting is whether anyone on a local high street knows who Jason Calacanis is?

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Mark Zorro — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:04:33 -0400

David, just one more thing, so I can get this out of my system once and for all; to win the Presidency of the United States back when the Founding Fathers were around, required them to fight against grievances by airing grievances. This system of yesterday’s grievance today represents the complete opposite of mass democracy because the system of mass production we exist in today treats grievance as an impurity that will stain “our personal brand”.

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Mark Zorro — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:52:25 -0400

David, I don't personally see Tom saying the obvious here. What's new here personally for me is that there is odd rare glimpse these of days of slightly rolling ones eyes to the manufacture of the obvious. Dannielle Blumenthal wrote a good blog called "Unbranding the productized self: a vote against personal branding", and so did Matt Farina where his blog posed the question "Is Personal Branding Selfish".

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Mark Zorro — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:15:46 -0400

At last I have read a piece about personal brands that does justice to how the cow feels. How long my udders have waited for someone to poke a little juicy fun at all those glossy devotees that were previously so untouchable. India has untouchables that want to be touchable but brand people are untouchable by choice and the only touchable allowed in branding is anything that can be airbrushed.

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Mark Zorro — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:30:07 -0400

Jay, the garden comment is about sitting back and looking at the audience. Today it is mainly comedians and politicians who do this and I am neither. For either group, content is king, but content is like beauty, it exists in the eye of the beholder. Comedians and politicians know how to pull in the wisdom of the crowds and leave them feeling wiser as if the audience had actually heard the truth. Where I have personally failed is to sit still and watch the show without comment, how hard could that possibly be?

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Mark Zorro — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:37:13 -0400

Just to set my own non-blog record straight (personal choice not simply as public opinion), though I didn't quite appreciate Tom Stern's non-Carlinian approach to the "Seven Words" Tim Manner's ones do make sense to me because they, as he alludes to in his article, speaks to a Carlinian (George Carlin) truth, except in my interpretation it is about how we the consumer know that we are not blind to the obvious, but simply look at our own watch to keep time on what we attend to and so choose to ignore or pretend that the obvious doesn't exist.

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Mark Zorro — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:28:42 -0400

Sorry Tom, your memorial isn’t fitting to the George Carlin I came to respect. Great comedians leaves a legacy that never die, it is the comedians whose lines disappear into the giant nothingness of superficial entertainment and who are the first ones who lose their act. It is the great comedians who have the last laugh, and though we might say, “he who laughs last, laugh’s the longest”, there is a moment where comedy and tragedy become indistinguishable, and in that meld greatness is formed.

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Mark Zorro — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:22:32 -0400

Robert, this isn’t pointed at you but to Dan in Sales or at least media's version of sales. I like sales people, I don’t have much affinity for marketing people; I like graphics people but I don’t have much affinity for those cronies who speaketh in the group tongue of “intellectual social media”.

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Mark Zorro — Wed, 21 May 2008 09:14:38 -0400

Originally I thought I would keep this offline because it is far too long a comment, but what the heck, having written it, what’s the point of storing it in my own cerebral backyard, and since I want to become a more considerate and silent individual from here on in, why not finish with a really, really long rhetorical dump, the final mother load of my introspective online waxing and waning......Doug, I hold a natural respect for people like you.