Over the course of the past several months, we’ve witnessed one of the most entertaining, scary and mind-numbing presidential primaries of recent time. The Republican Party is either battling for its soul or we are witnessing the most brilliant performance art piece of all time.

At Glow we are gifted an annual office closing from Christmas Eve through New Year’s Day. Being Jewish, I spend the Christmas holiday with other orphaned NYC’ers eating Chinese food, watching movies and doing my best to avoid the Mitzvah Tank that prowls the streets lurking for stranded Jews with hopes of injecting some good ole orthodox religion into our lives.

As companies grapple with a market that is less than stable, with declining revenues and an ever-present need to maximize resources (while minimizing expenditures) there’s a reasonably simple and inexpensive solution out there: Be nice to your employees.

For the better part of the last year I have accosted friends and family members preaching the wonders that awaits them should they sign up for the premium Rdio service. Some within Glow often wondered if I had been paid off, if I was perhaps on Rdio’s payroll.

It was recently reported that Apple iPhone users were the most loyal smartphone owners with over an 80% retention rate (in contrast to Blackberry’s 48%). This is big news and presents a long-term challenge for Windows Mobile and Google’s Android.

From the perspective of a digital strategist, the internet has created a continuous stream of change and innovation, leading to a vast pool of tools, resources, communication platforms and distribution channels. From this vantage point almost anything is possible, and that which is not yet possible is either an opportunity to innovate or an idea waiting to flow downstream.

I was in middle school when I arrived at the conclusion that the music business was ultimately where I’d want my career to begin, with the goal centered on finding my way into a major record label. My ideal job was nothing unique. This of course, was during a time (early-mid 90’s) when music sales were never higher, and the music industry was robust and healthy. Oh how things would change…

RIM’s Blackberry franchise is a wonderful case study in the dire consequences of corporate + creative complacency, as well as the effects and unavoidable fate of operating within an anti-risk/anti-innovation vacuum.

In August of 2010 Wired Magazine proclaimed the web to be dead. This wasn’t to suggest that the Internet was dead but merely the manner by which we engage with the web was dead, or more nicely put, evolved…

Gmail is my holy grail. It’s my online quiet place. And yesterday Google Buzz came and crashed my pad like an old friend looking for a couch. It’s noisy, distracting and appears to be duplicating existing services that serve me quite well.