Matt Reyes is an Austin-based hombre who delights himself in advertising, politics, and the arts.


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    Monthly archive July, 2009

    Individualism is an out of touch PR term

    It usually goes like this: X&Y brand is bringing you the latest [insert contest or promotion here] for you to express your individualism and creativity. I’ve been forced to write this false sense of a term in a press release before, even after I persistently fought against using it, especially because of the demographic. First...

    Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson

    FREE (full book) by Chris Anderson

    What is false scarcity?

    Here are a few examples of false scarcity: Pop music.  For as long as radio has been around, there has been little to no real distribution of music.  Why? Well, radio was (and still is) based on a top-down medium.  Crowdsourced services like Last.fm, Pandora, and, to an extent, MySpace, have proved success and have...