Recently, the musician Prince, announced something pretty shocking. He announced that, “The internet is over.” I know, right? I didn’t know either. Prince went on to claim that “computers and digital gadgets are no good either and they just fill your head with numbers and that can’t be good for you.” As much as I’d [...]
If I were to imagine a group of people that work in customer service within the travel industry were to get together and talk about the “glory days”, my guess would be that they were referring to a time before social media factored into their jobs. Not too long ago, travelers that wanted to complain [...]
Recently, PricewaterhouseCoopers released their latest update to their Global Entertainment & Media Outlook for 2010-2014. As you can imagine, much of the report focused on the impact of new media and the observation that “consumers are embracing new media experiences with staggering speed.” More specifically, they claimed that the trend propelling the entertainment and media industry [...]
Facebook is most likely within weeks of announcing that they now have half a billion members. The world’s largest – and most popular – social networking site is bigger than ever and it is still growing. This growth continues even in face of the recent round of attacks and threats against Facebook’s privacy policy. A [...]
Having grown up in the late 70s and early 80s, I have to say I can’t relate to growing up during the digital age, that’s if you don’t count Atari and Intellivision as digital. Back then those were the big digital time sucks, and there were many hours spent vegging out in front of the [...]
