This Focused Performance Weblog started life as a "business management blog" containing links and commentary related primarily to organizational effectiveness with a "Theory of Constraints" perspective, but is in the process of evolving towards primary content on interactive and mobile marketing. Think of it as about Focusing marketing messages for enhanced Performance. If you are on an archive page, current postings are found here.
Saturday, July 02, 2005
Every Three Seconds --
The Declaration of Interdependence -- We're all in this together.
Don't Let Them Tell You It Doesn't Make a Difference (Update) -- Didn't think I'd get caught up in the Live 8 thing on TV to the extent that I did 20 years ago. But I seem to have been grabbed by it. Sir Bob just showed a picture from the original Live Aid show -- a picture of a starving, apparently dying, little girl. He then introduced a lovely young woman, who through the aid started back then, managed to survive, to get educated, and more. That woman was the little girl in the picture.
Not a dry eye in the house.
The MTV/VH-1 Nannyism (Another Update) -- Watchin' JayZ and Linkin Park. Again, surprised at how much I'm enjoying some of these artists I don't usually pay attention to. However, MTV and VH-1 are dropping out way too much language. Annoying. Basic cable is as ballless as network in succumbing to the new nannyism protecting us from words. As if these "obscenities" compare to the obscenity of extreme poverty. [Later: I guess it's OK if you're an aging icon (like Pink Floyd) to sing about "that goody good bullshit" without being subject to an audio dropout.]
By the Way... If you've got HBO, look for a repeat of their recently broadcast movie The Girl in the Cafe. It starts out as one of the best romantic comedies I've seen, and morphs seamlessly into a message movie regarding the G8 and the crimes of compromise without breaking down. Excellent flick. (Another movie related in subject matter is Beyond Borders, in heavy rotation on Showtime, with Angelina Jolie and Clive Owen.)
View Frank Patrick's profile
