„It’s undeniable that the rise of the Internet had a profound impact on cartooning as a profession, giving cartoonists both new tools and a new publishing and/or distribution medium. Online culture also spawned the emergence of viral memes in the late 1990s. Michelle Ann Abate, an education professor at The Ohio State University, argues in a paper published in INKS: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, that memes—specifically, image macros—represent a new type of digital comic, right down to the cognitive and creative ways in which they operate.”
Who are you?
Some people ask: „How are you?”
As a (half-)joke, I like to ask: „Who are you?”
A bit rude, I must admit, but jokes tend to be like that.
Making people happy
There are two ways of acting:
- Making all people happy. This likely leads to making no person happy. People pleasers. People who tell an exaggerated number of „Yes”-es. eMAG and Amazon, when trying to answer every possible product.
- Making very few people happy. Some newspapers do this when they cover an event – they choose a very specific angle, and assume that if 60% of people like this, that is the only solution. Or online stores – they focus on the majority only. Or Google – only the majority.
The solution? As always – the paradox. From time to time, try not to make anyone happy. From time to time, try to make all the people happy.