April 2008
84 posts
Download and Share ... BIG | Pando →
“consumers want to see more relevant ads but don’t want to have their...”
– ars technica
In defense of political advertising, Part II →
Those who argue that political advertising is intrinsically bad misunderstand the role of advertising in our society. For the voting public to make an informed decision on whom to vote for, they need…
March 2008
93 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-30) →
Magnolia Electric Co.
Songs: Ohia
NPR
Les Savy Fav
Lambchop
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
cultivating a questioning discipline →
Most of my life I’ve annoyed people, starting with my mother and currently my wife, by asking too many questions. Constantly asking questions, trying to understand why, always being curious. My…
“But now medical technology has caught up with exercise lore. Researchers in...”
– New York Times
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Magnolia Electric Company Obsession →
The Dark Don’t Hide It by Magnolia Electric Company has become a song obsession for me in the last day or so. I found this live version online. Enjoy.
Just rented my condo in Chicago. Phew. I can finally stop worrying. Stupid recession.
Wishing I could transport to the Matchbox in Chicago and have a drink with @MarkN. And maybe a short-story.
“It took a little patience to perfect Dr Pepper’s special mix of 23...”
– CNN Money
“The Semantic Web is offering an exciting promise: improved information...”
– readwriteweb
The not so distant future of advertising →
I went to the future a few days ago. It was loads of fun. While I was there I managed to scribbled a few notes down in my mole-skin notebook about what advertising is like in the future. Here are a…
Ordered “grown up Mac n cheese” from bakers square. Feeling comforted already.
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tumble outloud
I’ve noticed that I either use tumblr as a way to aggregate my life (what others have called life streaming) or as an extension of my brain. I find the way in which tumblr is an extension of my brain to be most useful as it gives me a way to record (and later find) the things that I find interesting. And it allows me to quickly think outloud. To express a thought or idea that isn’t...
Where we come in →
Tom Tom had an interesting article from Sunday, which he allowed us to see things from the clients perspective. I agreed with everything he wrote and it got me thinking, and what I came up with is…
made my famous gourmet grilled cheese sandwich tonight. Sharp Cheddar and Havarti on whole grain bread, grilled in olive oil. mmmm
“But imagine a world, however many decades from now, in which the cigarette...”
– wired blog
In defense of political advertising, Part 1 →
Theodore Sturgeon famously asserted, “ 90 percent of everything is crud.” Those in our industry who reject the very concept of political advertising are guilty, I think, of condemning the category…
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-23) →
Les Savy Fav
Gilles Peterson
NPR
Elizabeth Futtal
Okkervil River
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AdFreak: What else could advertising agencies... →
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“The long term answer is that someone needs to create a new technology that...”
– Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
“So he (Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky) drafted a bill, now gathering support in...”
– joeanddrieu.com
Clients are people →
Not just people, oftentimes very intelligent people. They’ve managed to work their way into trusted positions within a company through many years of hard work. And they don’t want it taken away from…
advertising wishlist →
I wish: there was less advertising, not more
advertising were more about being useful than funny
agencies focused more on pleasing their consumers than their clients
advertising was…
Should We Embrace the Rejects and the Fakes? →
Last week, we at Advertising for Peanuts received an email announcing a new ad contest and it sparked quite a bit of conversation among us. Here’s the first paragraph from that email: “We’re excited…
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mindset: slacker vs. achiever
a friend of mine wrote a book entitled The 5 Habits of Highly Successful Slackers (Because 7 Is Too Many). the book is obviously referencing and making light of Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Successful People theme, but to me it makes a clear distinction, that being: invest 100% of your self in your job. get into it. love it. become passionate about it (within reason, of course). ...
academhack » Twitter for Academia →
“Give people a choice between a fuel-sipper with a map in the glove box and a gas...”
– Wired
What Would Gossage Do? →
If an ad man can actually be someone’s hero, Howard Luck Gossage has been mine. The guy was doing stuff in the 50’s that would take home a bag full of Lions and Pencils if it ran…
democratizing media
the Internet has long been heralded as the medium that has (or will, depending on your perspective) democratize media. Has it? In some ways, yes. But, I would argue that democratizing media requires the majority of people in the democracy to get involved. That clearly hasn’t happened, and until a technology is invented that will make people want to get involved, it likely will not...
Elizabeth Futtal, “Oh sleep, why dost thou...
“Here’s a bet. As more people get faster connections, tolerance for time- and...”
– Doc Searls
Dancing Fools →
There are roughly two types of “dancing” commercials. The first uses dance as a pure expression of the brand. The Gap campaign and the silhouetted iPod spots of a few years back are good examples. I…
what is VRM?
From Wikipedia: VRM or Vendor Relationship Management, is the reciprocal of Customer Relationship Management. With VRM, the customer controls his or her relationship with vendors rather than vice versa. The purpose of VRM is to provide the customer with ways of bearing some of relationship burden which has in the past been borne entirely by the vendor. In so doing, VRM intends to improve markets...
the gleaners and I
I watched The Gleaners and I this weekend. It’s a French documentary about gleaning, which is defined as “Collecting unharvested crops from fields or obtaining unused agricultural products from farmers, processors, or retailers, usually for distribution to food banks and charitable feeding organizations.” The Filmaker, Agnes Varda, interviews gleaners in the fields of France,...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-16) →
Beirut
Elizabeth Futtal
NPR
of Montreal
MU
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Learn to use the media you've got! →
This is a suggestion, nay, a plea to all marketers out there. Please learn to do something good with the media you already have before invading everywhere else I look. Don’t get me wrong, I love…
Birth of a Sales Tool: LinkedIn Meets eBay | Fast... →