Julius Popp

bit.fall is a waterfall of words collected from live news feeds. Created by the German artist, Julius Popp, as part of Drift 2010. Drift 10 : Julius Popp bit.fall from 3 Trousers on Vimeo.

The Largest Shopping Mall in the World is Almost Entirely Empty

PBS’s P.O.V. series presents Utopia Pt. 3, The World’s Largest Shopping Mall, a 13-minute film on the South China Mall in central Dongguan, a city of 6 million north of Hong Kong. More than twice the size of the Mall of America, the mall is like Las Vegas and Disneyland combined — except that it…

Closing the Loop in the Content Lifecycle [audio]

Rahel Bailie‘s insightful post today at Johnny Holland Magazine’s Content Strategy Week discusses how the process of publishing content has dramatically changed in the shift from print to digital. She writes about the content lifecycle, and in particular, how to “close the loop” so it works in the continuous publishing process of the multichannel, interactive…

Reinventing Your Production Routine [audio]

As we make the print-to-digital transition we have to change the way we produce, distribute and promote content. What do we want to get out of that change? Inspired by hanging out the laundry. Listen: Listen! The goal is to create a new production routine that internalizes the procedures and rules that will work in…

Word cloud of my Tweets to date

Here’s a look at what have I been tweeting about since May 7, 2008. Besides RT Twitter new web social media, I can see I care about people, content, and time, and took part in eduweb, gov20ne, and SMBNH. I also see words I overuse and that I’ll try to avoid from now on: just,…

Is Content Strategy Strategy?

Over the weekend a tiff arose between two people whose thoughts and ideas I respect regarding whether “content strategy” is a meaningless buzzword or a legitimate practice that is part of business strategy. In one corner, we have Olivier Blanchard, aka The Brand Builder, a marketing strategy expert who is a leader in helping companies…

Bleeping Naming Conventions and the Content Ecosystem

I read the other day that “the search tools on some DVRs cannot find the new show, “$#*! My Dad Says,” because the symbols cannot be read.” This story is a reminder of how important it is to prepare content for its life in a complex ecosystem of blog posts, rss feeds, tweets, smartphone apps…