Archive for May, 2008



Our new name | “Burma Viral”

Published on May 15, 2008

As readers of this blog, you’ve probably noticed we’ve made a slight name/masthead change. This is in an effort to provide a better idea as to what our blog is about and what we believe. Since 2000, but over the last couple of years in particular, our parent corporation has been evolving and expanding to [...]


Déjà Vu

Published on May 14, 2008

Today, a few of us here found the Globe‘s ROB interview with Cultural anthropologist Dr. Grant McCracken really interesting. Dr. McCracken’s latest book, Transformations: Identity Construction in Contemporary Culture, seems to be based on the argument that we are all building “portfolios” of ourselves … that there is a tendency to define ourselves more liberally, [...]


A grand evening

Published on May 9, 2008

The feedback we are receiving on our recent Multicultural Publisher’s Networking Event has been extremely positive and inspiring! It’s unanimous: all indicated they would attend a similar event (either semi-annually, or annually) and also expressed interest in hearing more information on a number of topics including distribution, printing and marketing; news-sharing; and advertising, networking and [...]


Passion

Published on May 8, 2008

“Passion …is always fast-moving, and if you have something extraordinary and there’s a cadre of believers, the passionate will find you.” Written by Seth Godin, I read this just a day after our Multicultural Publishers’ Networking event (see below); passion was certainly a recurring theme this week. A few days ago, Seth “threw” an interesting [...]


The value of community

Published on May 5, 2008

As a few of us here are making some final preparations for our DMS Multicultural Publishers’ Networking Event happening tomorrow night, I realized it had been almost a couple of weeks since my last post. (One of the things I’ve come to learn about blogging, is that sometimes keeping it short and sweet isn’t necessarily [...]