http://woodylewis.com Social media strategy for newspapers and other fine print Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:03:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I waited several weeks to write about Inception because I needed distance from the visual event. The publicity surrounding this film had prepared me for the unorthodox, but I had no idea how closely it relates to the fractal interface I've been theorizing. No spoiler alerts, just caveat emptor if ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=1146 Every workday morning, I enter a midtown Manhattan office building and take the elevator. Having walked to the subway, taken a downtown local and crosstown shuttle, and walked through heavy human traffic to the building, I'm ready to plug into my virtual workspace. But before I reach the office and ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=1131 Walking in midtown Manhattan is different than in any other city, or in many parts of New York City. The death-defying mentality of pedestrians is the product of Darwinian evolution - survival of the quickest, if not the fittest. As I scuttle across Madison Avenue, having just reached street-level from ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=1113 Over the past two months, I've left a job in the Bay Area, found another in New York, and moved from a comfortable three-bedroom house to a small one-bedroom apartment. Like Dave Winer, I've experienced a transformation in lifestyle. I'm not in unfamiliar territory because I'm from New York originally, ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=1085 I started writing software in the late Eighties, MIDI software for Yamaha digital synthesizers. The Yamaha DX7, considered by many to be  the first commercially successful synth, had just sold more than 300,000 units over a period of several years. Its sparkling keyboard sounds, courtesy of John Chowning's FM synthesis algorithms, ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=1064 Now that hard currency has changed hands between future iPad owners and the mother ship, it's easier to postulate one of our basic laws of media. Yes, you can tell there's a vector at work here, not only as a function of the knowledge itself, the waves of data passing ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=1047 Don DeLillo is my favorite author, one of only a handful whose work I will buy when it first comes out in hardcover, even pre-order it on Amazon, as I did with Point Omega, his new novel. Before I read him, I had that faint feeling of irresponsibility, that DeLillo ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=1023 It's nice to see independent corroboration of a hypothesis - in this case, my premise that certain aspects of digital media can be quantified, measured in discrete units of real or perceived phenomena, and analyzed accordingly. In my previous posts about the velocity of time and the velocity of space, ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=996 Last month, I was caught in a paradox, a narrative non sequitur resulting from a conversation with someone who reads this blog. I received a voicemail from a Forbes.com reporter asking for my thoughts about social media as it relates to the enterprise. The piece would focus on social media directors (SMDs) and ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=950 OK, so now it's nearly four months since my last post. The simple explanation? I started a massive software project shortly thereafter, wading through a dense, poorly documented codebase to find the entry points for modified functionality and a new interface. The right-brain/left-brain balance was challenged. For most of this ... http://woodylewis.com/?p=928