I have been busy with SXSW lately and taken a pretty long break from writing. Unlike so many in the professional and personal blogosphere I'm too overwhelmed with sessions, pitches and expos at SXSW that I can't really find "the thing" that broke out or defined the...
Social media has been in flames the last few days over a (now withdrawn) Barbie-book Mattel published in 2010. It started with a blog post on Pamiedotcom's Tumblr site. Barbie: I Can Be A Computer Engineer is the gift that keeps on giving to blogs and click bait...
Although type of content varies between older and younger users in the same cohort, we see that the mobile screen is taking over as the electronic time killer of choice, while the big screen TV will eventually reduce to a - not irrelevant, but increasingly distant -...
[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="499"] Source: DoctorDisney[/caption] Spoiler alert ahead! It's obvious, Disney has fallen in love with a new meta-theme: Wronged, cold-hearted, lonely woman unearths apocalyptic forces that overtake her kingdom, but is also the only one who can break the spell. But only after she rediscovers...
[caption id="attachment_2760" align="alignright" width="288"] Image source: Victor Habbick @ Freedigitalphotos.net.[/caption] In I’m Gonna Pop Some Tags I referred to an article indicating that toy innovation has been sluggish since the recession. But even if the average consumer might not feel the effects of an improving economy...
During most of the years that I have covered parenting trends there has been a growing tendency to overprotect children. This phenomenon has in the United States and some other countries been dubbed helicopter parenting. Other places the tendency to micromanage ones progeny is known...
[caption id="attachment_2375" align="alignleft" width="320"] Did family sitcoms change from this...
