Comments for The Art of Communications http://halleycomm.wordpress.com More than colored paper and pencils Fri, 17 Aug 2007 07:52:20 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Describing Interactive Communications by Cliff http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/describing-interactive-communications/#comment-15 Cliff Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:38:34 +0000 http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/describing-interactive-communications/#comment-15 I must say, you're hired! (That is, if I actually had a company). Podcasts, RSS, whatever it takes.... Well said. I must say, you’re hired! (That is, if I actually had a company). Podcasts, RSS, whatever it takes….

Well said.

]]> Comment on Describing Interactive Communications by icm501 http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/describing-interactive-communications/#comment-8 icm501 Wed, 13 Dec 2006 03:08:20 +0000 http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/12/12/describing-interactive-communications/#comment-8 That podcast was awesome, your voice is mellifluous. Good job Colleen That podcast was awesome, your voice is mellifluous.
Good job Colleen

]]> Comment on Technology: tool or master? by Ed Crowder http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/technology-tool-or-master/#comment-7 Ed Crowder Tue, 28 Nov 2006 06:26:20 +0000 http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/technology-tool-or-master/#comment-7 Interesting thoughts. I recently saw the movie "Marie Antoinette," which was a good (but not great) film that clearly had difficulty finding an appropriate audience. One thing I took out of it (and one of the points I think the filmmaker was trying to make) is that in many ways your average, middle-class American lives in a kind of luxury that would make a pre-Revolutionary French aristocrat blush. We have music and entertainment on demand; thousands of different ways to make ourselves beautiful (or try, at least). If we want to visit someone, we can fly out and be there tomorrow, or we can just pick up the phone, hop on the computer or get out the Blackberry. We not only have plenty of food to eat, but can choose among a staggering array of options for any given meal. The finest palace in 18th century Europe would have difficulty providing these things that we take for granted. But you're right: If it's making us any happier than our predecessors were, we rarely acknowledge it. In fact, we always express this nostalgic yearning for "simpler" times. (Which sound nice until you consider how much it must have sucked to wake up at 4 to milk the cows and churn butter.) We always look at technology as something that's "advancing" or "improving," with the idea that at some point someone will invent something so brilliant that all your problems will go away. And sometimes they do, but society always seems to invent new ones. I wonder how many people really worried about dandruff before the invention of dandruff shampoo! Interesting thoughts. I recently saw the movie “Marie Antoinette,” which was a good (but not great) film that clearly had difficulty finding an appropriate audience. One thing I took out of it (and one of the points I think the filmmaker was trying to make) is that in many ways your average, middle-class American lives in a kind of luxury that would make a pre-Revolutionary French aristocrat blush.

We have music and entertainment on demand; thousands of different ways to make ourselves beautiful (or try, at least). If we want to visit someone, we can fly out and be there tomorrow, or we can just pick up the phone, hop on the computer or get out the Blackberry. We not only have plenty of food to eat, but can choose among a staggering array of options for any given meal. The finest palace in 18th century Europe would have difficulty providing these things that we take for granted.

But you’re right: If it’s making us any happier than our predecessors were, we rarely acknowledge it. In fact, we always express this nostalgic yearning for “simpler” times. (Which sound nice until you consider how much it must have sucked to wake up at 4 to milk the cows and churn butter.)

We always look at technology as something that’s “advancing” or “improving,” with the idea that at some point someone will invent something so brilliant that all your problems will go away. And sometimes they do, but society always seems to invent new ones.

I wonder how many people really worried about dandruff before the invention of dandruff shampoo!

]]> Comment on Business not as usual by ahoving http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/business-not-as-usual/#comment-4 ahoving Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:54:45 +0000 http://halleycomm.wordpress.com/2006/10/12/business-not-as-usual/#comment-4 Great posting! Have you seen their new campaign "Who Would You Give a Volvo To?" http://new.volvocars.com/wwygavt/ Great posting! Have you seen their new campaign “Who Would You Give a Volvo To?”

http://new.volvocars.com/wwygavt/

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