May 2008
73 posts
apparently the bank thinks there are two people with kristen’s social security number? what an unnecessary pain.
April 2008
84 posts
Substituition →
A cool site from Mekanism and Element 79. I have no idea how they got the load times to load so fast but I assume someone discovered magic over there. NOTE: Littlejohn will be posting…
Saw a coyote today on my run.
Doing any kind of great advertising is very, very... →
In a recent exchange between Littlejohn and me, he wrote the seemingly obvious statement above. It got me thinking. The phrase “great advertising”, whatever we mean by it, gets bandied about quite…
Digg for twitter? →
“In the face of infinity, many of us are panicking and searching less, going...”
– Seth on infinite
“Blank slides: I have never seen somebody use a blank slide in a talk before I...”
– a physicist comments on using Lessig’s presentation style.
At San Fran international film festival. Watching In A Lonely Place.
Just bought a second car. Yikes!
It just went from 85 in the south bay to 55 over the golden gate, back to 85 in Marin county.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-27) →
Cat Power
The Young Knives
NPR
Wilco
Radiohead
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
I’m not good at shopping at physical stores.
constraints and innovation →
Often great innovations come from (seemingly) tough constraints. In the web world, twitter and tumblr come to mind as two examples. Twitter strips down the blogging experience and constrains…
The birth of open source advertising: Please... →
A colleague of mine at Columbia College asked me about an article he recently read claiming that the Obama campaign was the first organization to perfect the use of “open source advertising.” While…
WatchMy concern is that although Yahoo is talking about connecting all their properties to harness the latent social network that exists within their properties, the reason they are doing this isn’t because it will create the best user experience. It’s because it’s what advertisers want. That’s a problem. They are, and always have been, too focused on making advertisers happy...
Watchthank you, onion.
“Advertising may be one of the easiest ways to get ideas created - but the...”
– comment on a blog for which I write (although this is not my post)
how i (quickly) get things done
I do things immediately. I decide what to do with an email immediately. I start new projects as soon as I get them. In the past I would put projects off (and email), but think about them for a long time and then it became (mentally) hard to actually start. Now I try to avoid that dilemma by starting projects immediately and making decisions quickly. The beauty is that I can make twice as...
Why I do what I do →
I’m not one of those copywriters who is just dabbling in advertising until I can publish the next great American novel. I’m not even working on one, and have no plans to. I have no interest in…
“I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to...”
– Jeff Bezos in Business Week
Tumblr to launch pro service, intelligent group... →
The best links →
We’re all used to agency wide emails. Most of the email chains I’m on have links to various sites done by other agencies, most recently it was the White Gold campaign done by Goodby (I…
AAARRRGGHHH!!!!! →
Please tell me it’s not true. Tell me that Goodby, my very favorite ad agency in the world, doesn’t do ALL of Comcast’s print advertising. Because I just saw an ad from Comcast featuring, big and…
“Feature films are also popular—Garland told Ars that the top 100 movies on...”
– ars technica
Just got done snowboarding. Fell A LOT.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-4-20) →
NPR
Bonobo
Boozoo Bajou
Peace Orchestra
Coldcut
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
advertising as a cover up →
I’ve been shopping for a car as of late and can’t help but be struck by how all the great advertising I’ve seen melts away when I have a poor dealer experience (which is pretty much every time). …
Snowshoeing in Tahoe.
Everyone in Tahoe drives a subaru outback.
Arrived in Tahoe. First time I’ve seen snow this year. 60 and sunny.
Noah’s Bagels then off to Tahoe.
Your brand is a conversation. Make it a good one. →
A brand is a conversation between a company and its customer tribes. That’s a simple idea, yes, but it’s also one that’s very difficult to deliver on. And just what do we mean by a “conversation”? …
“What if the norm in the business world was good customer service? What if...”
– The Motley Fool
Cigars and scotch w a friend.