April 2008
84 posts
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Apr 1st
“consumers want to see more relevant ads but don’t want to have their...”
– ars technica
Apr 1st
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…
Apr 1st
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
Mar 31st
Mar 31st
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…
Mar 29th
“But now medical technology has caught up with exercise lore. Researchers in...”
– New York Times
Mar 29th
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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.
Mar 28th
Just rented my condo in Chicago. Phew. I can finally stop worrying. Stupid recession.
Mar 28th
Wishing I could transport to the Matchbox in Chicago and have a drink with @MarkN. And maybe a short-story.
Mar 28th
“It took a little patience to perfect Dr Pepper’s special mix of 23...”
– CNN Money
Mar 27th
“The Semantic Web is offering an exciting promise: improved information...”
– readwriteweb
Mar 27th
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…
Mar 27th
Ordered “grown up Mac n cheese” from bakers square. Feeling comforted already.
Mar 27th
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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...
Mar 27th
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…
Mar 25th
made my famous gourmet grilled cheese sandwich tonight. Sharp Cheddar and Havarti on whole grain bread, grilled in olive oil. mmmm
Mar 25th
“But imagine a world, however many decades from now, in which the cigarette...”
– wired blog
Mar 25th
Mar 25th
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…
Mar 24th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-23) →
Les Savy Fav  Gilles Peterson  NPR  Elizabeth Futtal  Okkervil River  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Mar 24th
AdFreak: What else could advertising agencies... →
Mar 24th
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“The long term answer is that someone needs to create a new technology that...”
– Michael Arrington, TechCrunch
Mar 24th
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“So he (Assemblyman Richard L. Brodsky) drafted a bill, now gathering support in...”
– joeanddrieu.com
Mar 24th
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…
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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…
Mar 23rd
Mar 23rd
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…
Mar 22nd
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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).  ...
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academhack » Twitter for Academia →
Mar 20th
Mar 20th
“Give people a choice between a fuel-sipper with a map in the glove box and a gas...”
– Wired
Mar 20th
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…
Mar 19th
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...
Mar 18th
ListenElizabeth Futtal, “Oh sleep, why dost thou...
Mar 18th
“Here’s a bet. As more people get faster connections, tolerance for time- and...”
– Doc Searls
Mar 18th
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…
Mar 17th
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...
Mar 17th
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,...
Mar 17th
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-3-16) →
Beirut  Elizabeth Futtal  NPR  of Montreal  MU  Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
Mar 16th
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…
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Birth of a Sales Tool: LinkedIn Meets eBay | Fast... →
Mar 15th