Every Dot Connects Diva Connie Reece tagged me on a meme passed on to her through Connie Benson (who was tagged by originator Jeremiah Owyang).
Jeremiah’s original question was “Do you respect media snackers… folks who consume small bits of information, data or entertainment when, where and how the want. If you want to be part of their lives you’ve got to respect them.”
My response is in video below (teaser: there’s a hidden media snack at the end). But before we start, I must tag my six: Kami Huyse, Todd Defren, Sarah Wurrey, Kyle Flaherty, Jane Quigley and Doug Meacham (three of six from Beantown, a heavy Boston contingent to represent the Red Sox). Their answers will be posted below.
For another take on the media snack, check out this excellent analysis from Lee Hopkins.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Geoff,
This was so amazing! What a talent you have. I retweeted it. Thanks for joining the meme!
It’s fun sharing blogging time (even if it’s late sometimes)
October 26th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
“Snacks make people happy…” so true! Nice job.
October 26th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Geoff, this is snackalicious! Great illustration to make your point about media snacking … and I’m sure your pets loved it!
You’ve tagged some great people, and I look forward to hearing their opinions as well.
October 26th, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Thank you, Connie B. I enjoyed your post, too. Andrea, good to see you here. Connie, Junior looks a little wider for it
October 26th, 2007 at 9:58 pm
This is really great, well done!
And snacks DO make people happy!
October 26th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Pleasant analogy! I vote for snacks high in fiber and low in high fructose corn syrup.
October 26th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Oooh, the pet thing. Maybe I’ll trot out my CUUUTE little 5 month old scottish terrier puppy. And his equally gorgeous mom
Not me, the other bitch….
Seriously, nice take on the meme. Question I keep coming back to is, how can we get snackers to sit down at the table…
October 26th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
yeah cool but 3 minutes? we need the video equivalent of twitters (15 second spots)
October 26th, 2007 at 11:12 pm
Geoff, Thanks for the tag and the great snack. BTW, why your YouTube avatar is cc_chapman?
October 26th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Did you say snacks? http://www.flickr.com/photos/streamofconsciousness/1464604111/
October 26th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Love this take on snacking. In retrospect, snacking seems to be the form for the great portion of the offline interactions most people I know have - 2 to 4 minute interactions of critical information, conveyed in a form that is both readily digestible and highly customized. In this light, I wonder whether frequent snacks might effectively replace three squares a day. My nutritionist, it seems, is correct.
October 27th, 2007 at 3:29 am
Followed you in from the digital breadcrumbs via Jeremiah’s original posting…
The previous people have already said what I feel but great stuff - love the pet illustration!
Peace
DK
MediaSnackers Founder
October 27th, 2007 at 5:13 am
It’s a meme! With a very important message.
October 27th, 2007 at 5:20 am
Jeremiah, as always an honor to have you here. Thanks for starting this off with your excellent post.
DK, thanks for coming by. You and Jeremiah have started something fun.
Mike: Great dog! Thanks for sharing the photo.
Susan: Where’s your photo? Send me the link!
Doug and Joe: Thanks for the drive by, and glad you enjoyed.
Ed: A 15 second snack may be tasty indeed. Unfortunately, we do not serve those here. At least not yet.
But thank you for coming by anyway.
October 27th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I like to think of the jots as snacks, not everyone has the time to read everything, so they can stop by and digest small bits….Sorry for the slow response, I am at PodCamp Boston this weekend!
October 29th, 2007 at 7:55 am
I’m in the kitchen right now creating my own media snack….mmmmmm.
/kff
October 29th, 2007 at 9:23 am
OK, snack is out of the oven and ready to eat. Used Utterz for the first time, VERY cool.
http://tinyurl.com/2dqsx4
/kff
October 29th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Sorry this took so long - especially since I’m using micromedia (thanks for the term Jeremiah!) for my response (I was at PodCamp Boston!).
http://www.utterz.com/~u-NDk2MzM4Mw/utt.php
October 29th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Thanks Kyle and Jane for playing. A couple more tasty snacks…
Todd Defren is the snack daddy! http://www.pr-squared.com/2007/10/snackdaddy.html
Kami Huyse serves up 5 tasty snacks a la carte: http://tinyurl.com/2bjp3d
October 29th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
Okay so here’s mine, egregiously late but here nevertheless!
http://blogstring.com/2007/10/29/snack-on-this/
October 29th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
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October 29th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Great, now I’m hungry.
October 30th, 2007 at 9:28 am
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October 30th, 2007 at 10:58 am
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October 30th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Great hearing and seeing what everyone has to say on this subject. Here’s my post http://urltea.com/1wyj
October 31st, 2007 at 12:06 am
Unbelievable that this post has 25 comments, I had to add one more to keep it going.
October 31st, 2007 at 4:12 pm
Yeah, I think it’s the pet thing
Old advertising trick was to always use a cute monkey. A pug is better than a monkey. I may need to start featuring Junior in more videos.
November 4th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
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