Posts Tagged ‘History’
The Julia Louis-Dreyfus Rolling Stone Cover Snafu [VIDEO]
David Erickson discusses the Rolling Stone cover featuring Julia Louis-Dreyfus and the embarrassingly fundamental misunderstanding of US history displayed thereon.
Read MoreGroupon Elects Alexander Hamilton A President On Presidents Day [VIDEO]
David Erickson and B.L. Ochman discusses Groupon misidentifying Alexander Hamilton as a president during a President’s Day promotion.
Read MoreGoogle Tour Builder Storytelling Tool [VIDEO]
David Erickson discuss the new Google Tour Builder tool that allows you to tell your own stories by annotating Google Earth maps with your own text, photos and video to create a 3D geographical tour.
Read MoreGolf Channel's I Have A Golf Dream Twitter Fail [VIDEO]
The Golf Channel hashjack the #DreamDay hashtag on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s I Have A Dream speech constitutes a Twitter fail.
Read MoreThe Politics Of Pirates & Cyberspace [VIDEO]
Jean-Phillippe Vergne, coauthor of The Pirate Organization, explains how the edge of capitalism is driven by outlaws by pointing out the parallels between the age of pirates and our current cyberspace economy.
Read MoreDocumentary: The Last Roll of Kodachrome [VIDEO]
Professional photographer Steve McCurry shoots the last roll of Kodachrome film the company produced and National Geographic made a documentary out of the occasion.
Read MoreHow To Download & Mine Your Twitter Archive [VIDEO]
CNET’s how to demonstration for downloading and browsing through your Twitter archive.
Read MoreMoore's Law [VIDEO]
Gordon E. Moore, one of the founders of Intel, predicted in 1965 that computers would get twice as powerful every two years. The prediction came true and became known as Moore’s Law.
Read More60 Years Of Presidential Campaign Commercials [VIDEO]
From President Eisenhower to President Obama, here’s a fascinating compilation of presidential campaign commercials past.
Read MoreA History Of Enlightened Business Self-Interest
Harvard Business School professor and historian Nancy Koehn explains how socially responsible business dates back to the beginning of modern capitalism.
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