Lewis Lazare: Talent Zoo, an ad agency headhunting firm that keeps tabs on hiring trends, often has insights we find to be on the mark. Its latest concern about a streak of "arrogance" in agency hiring these days struck us as worth sharing. Ragan Jones, associate vice president of recruiting, said: In 2002, agencies could afford to be as picky as they wanted about hiring. They could demand pedigree and get it. In …
Google To Muddy Its Results For AOL
NYT: Rebuffing aggressive overtures from Microsoft, Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the dominant company on the Internet, and Google, the current online king. Negotiations between the three companies reached a fevered pitch on Thursday night when teams from Google and Microsoft were in separate rooms of …
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1-800-PIT-BULL
Florida's Supreme Court forbade two personal injury lawyers from using a pit bull with a spiked collar to advertise their services because "there is no way to measure whether the attorneys in fact conduct themselves like pit bulls." According to the ruling: In this case we impose discipline on two attorneys for their use of television advertising devices that violate the Rules of Professional Conduct. These devices, …
Inventor Stays The Course Until Justice Is Done
Taipei Times: In the late 1960s, Andreas Pavel and his friends gathered regularly at his Sao Paulo house to listen to records, from Bach to Janis Joplin, and talk politics and philosophy. In their flights of fancy, they wondered why it should not be possible to take their music with them wherever they went. Inspired by those discussions, Pavel invented the device known today as the Walkman. But it took more than 25 …
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Entrepreneurs Just Do It
Ryan Carson for Signal vs. Noise: Every successful business has a dirty little secret: They didn’t know if they were going to be successful when they started. They probably did their homework, researched the market and had a bit of experience. But there were no guarantees I just finished a book about Google called The Search, by John Battelle. What I learned from the book is that it’s easy to look at a company like …
Dayton Paper Goes Ape For Kong
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Rarely Does Copy Become Poetry
Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They …
Let My Money Go
Consumerist user, Crispin B., is pissed at his bank, Chase. I’ve been with Chase for a long time. I have money from the dot-com days. I’ve run a lot of that money through them - at one point just over a million dollars following the sale of my home. Did that earn me any respect? No. They treat me just like I was back in college, living from paycheck to paycheck. They’ve nickel-and-dimed me the whole time. Charges for …
Let’s Make It Really Jump Off The Shelf
Wired: Electronics maker Siemens is readying a paper-thin electronic-display technology so cheap it could replace conventional labels on disposable packaging, from milk cartons to boxes of Cheerios. In less than two years, Siemens says, the technology could transform consumer-goods packaging from the fixed, ink-printed images of today to a digital medium of flashing graphics and text that displays prices, special …
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Dressing Down A Former Client In The Trades
I want to sympathize with the agency mentioned below, and support them for tossing a bad client. But it's bad form to vent when you're on a call with a reporter (although it makes for good journalism). Adweek: Citing "creative and strategic differences," independent G&M Plumbing and quick-serve restaurant chain Del Taco have parted ways, the agency said. G&M in Manhattan Beach, Calif., has handled the Del Taco …
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