Jimmy Gilmore – Writer – Director

A study by Cisco VNI states that by 2014 90% of web traf­fic will be video. You might want to read that again. And no, it’s not a typo. This is prob­a­bly one of the more shock­ing num­bers on the rise of video on the Web but maybe not the only one that will amaze you: Did […]

A recent arti­cle I wrote for my for­mer employer’s blog: Stu­dios are report­ing the biggest Memo­r­ial Day week­end ever.  Why is this impor­tant? The adver­tis­ing indus­try is con­sumed these days with arti­cles about the “chang­ing” media land­scape, detail­ing why it will never be the same. While it’s impor­tant that we keep up with the advancement […]

Image by musha68000 via Flickr I’m a copy­writer and also a social media guy. So a post by Jim Mitchem got me fired up last week. And it also got me think­ing about the role that cre­ative folks are play­ing in the social space right now. The real­ity is we’re not doing all that much […]

I’ve never been a fan of New Years Res­o­lu­tions. The ideas of self improve­ment and set­ting goals are great. But New Years Res­o­lu­tions are for the most part, doomed for fal­i­ure. It’s as if peo­ple sub­con­ciously say, “I’m going to set a goal that’s slightly out of reach, then attempt it for a month, then […]

I’m just about over Flash for­ever. I once heard flash ref­ered to as it as the “flashy gold chain of the inter­net.” I tend to agree – espe­cially when it’s used for a site intro. But I am guilty of using it on sites in the past, some of which I would still defend. I […]

My 3 year old had a bal­let recital this week­end. It was awe­some. 20 lit­tle girls just throw­ing it all out there for the sheer joy of doing some­thing they enjoy. Big smiles on their faces and hav­ing the time of their short lives. Bal­let is new to them and they’re find­ing great joy in it. […]

Tomor­row I’m run­ning the Atlanta Half Marathon. Back in my early 20s I would have been much bet­ter pre­pared for this effort. I was a com­pet­i­tive cyclist and didn’t have the same job and fam­ily com­mit­ments I do today. In fact, the old me would prob­a­bly say that present me is ill pre­pared. So what […]

I’ve already posted on the 10,000 foot view, so I wanted to get at about what I actu­ally learned Blog­Well Atlanta. Andy Ser­novitz had some impor­tant points on ethics and dis­clo­sure. He out­lined dan­gers to a brand of not hav­ing clear, legal agree­ments with ven­dors act­ing on a brand’s behalf and opined that the new […]

This was 7:30 AM. Just dropped off the girls and went for a short hike. Had nowhere to be for the rest of the day really. Tak­ing a deep breath today. Hope you have a chance for one too. Have a great weekend.