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What would you call open-source marketing?

Instead of tightening your grip on intellectual property (mostly trade-mark with a healthy dose of copyright and some neighbouring rights) and then hoping for royalties, the group doing the marketing attempts to engineer a type of personality cult for the brand. … What I’m talking about is tying differences (real or created) to cultural phenomena, and then grabbing hold of those phenomena and driving from that end; the product becomes a tag-along to those cultural memes. Continue reading

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Where are you, Bobby Kennedy? The Mindless Menace Continues

I was listening to CBC Radio 2 tonight on my way home, and they played Senator Robert Kennedy’s speech, “On the Mindless Menace of Violence,” about the plague of violence that was making the United States sick, in his view. … Continue reading

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