Our brains are wired for storytelling

| May 4, 2006

In an interview for CIO, Bran Ferren executive vice president for creative technology and R&D at Walt Disney Imagineering in Glendale, Calif., says, “The Web is a storytelling medium. Most people function in a storytelling mode. It’s the way we communicate ideas, richly, as well as how we structure our thoughts.”

“As well as how we structure our thoughts”-that’s an interesting statement.

Tell me more about that.

Media Make-over #1 Malcolm Gladwell: Tipped: Bad Hair, Bad Branding

| January 3, 2006

When I see Malcolm Gladwell all I can think about is his bad hair. I know he’s come up with thought provoking concepts. But all those go out the window in a haze of hair.

Several clients have written or called me mystified. “The books ‘Blink’ and ‘The Tipping Point’ were so fascinating, but then I heard Gladwell speak….”