Ben Kunz on Apple's Potential for Saving Publishing: Now in Technicolor™!

Ben Kunz, who did the Five Minutes With... segment for our "Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms" episode, turned his cameo into a visual manifesto with witty subtitles and music saturated in foreboding.

What we like about Ben is his special way of looking at hype from a critical perspective -- not just to be a contrarian, but because he accounts for both the history of Apple and the trajectory of industries similar to publishing. It's wrapped up all nice, swaddled in logic, and you sit there wondering why you never saw it before.

Give it a watch and decide whether he's right. We've got thoughts on this, but by now it should be clear we like to save those until we're compromised by a stimulant or abject boredom.

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AdVerve - Episode 15 - Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms.

Who can’t use more of each?

Did your mother drink and smoke while pregnant? Then have we got a show for you. After exploring most of the adult vices we could think of, we devote the show to one of our favorite segments, 10 For 10. (We basically hit each other with topics the other doesn’t know about ahead of time.)

From there, Ben Kunz of Media Associates delivers a Five Minutes With... showing why he’s smart. Like, blog smart, especially on his Thought Gadgets where he lives. Whatever that means. We then wrap as only we can—for another 10 minutes and cover things like the idea of heroes and drowning. IT’S 97 MINUTES OF PURE PLEASURE.

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Topics:

00:00 – 1. Intro - A man can always use more alcohol, tobacco & firearms
12:48 – 2. Fuck Skype
13:32 – 3. 10 For 10 - Diesel
18:35 – 4. 10 For 10 - Guys With Scarves
21:04 – 5. 10 For 10 - Personal behavior
22:41 – 6. 10 For 10 - Breaking Dawn & Vampire World
31:16 – 7. 10 For 10 - Save the children
37:08 – 8. 10 For 10 - FourSquare
43:21 – 9. 10 For 10 - Ace of Base
45:57 – 10. 10 For 10 - Hated but still used
47:38 – 11. 10 For 10 - Google, meet China
49:31 – 12. 10 For 10 - I saw it on the YT
53:44 – 13. 10 For 10 - Advertising water
58:14 – 14. 10 For 10 - Disturbing profiles
1:01:09 – 15. 10 For 10 - Red
1:02:55 – 16. 10 For 10 - The Apple rules
1:05:57 – 17. 10 For 10 - Ikea
1:11:09 – 18. 10 For 10 - The brand you hate
1:12:36 – 19. 10 For 10 - Privacy
1:15:22 – 20. 10 For 10 - The brand you love
1:19:11 – 21. Five Minutes with... Ben Kunz
1:24:27 – 22. That’s a wrap... and *other* stuff

Linkage:

• Thank You For Smoking trailer.
• Bob Roberts trailer.
• Diesel’s Stupid campaign.
• Robert Scoble on FourSquare at CES.
• Breaking Dawn review.
• Quick Burger.
• Charlie Bit Me — autotuned!
• Shirley Temple's Baby Burlesques.
• Twitter for Culture Buzz: @vanksen_com.
• Boomsday by Christopher Buckley.

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