The city of Las Vegas welcomes all kinds, including douchebags. [via Shabooty] …
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The city of Las Vegas welcomes all kinds, including douchebags. [via Shabooty] …
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Paul Johnson, writing for Ad Age's Small Agency Diary makes a good point about interactive capabilities at traditional shops. There are a lot of ad agencies talking a mean game and touting their capabilities in pitches. To paraphrase the head of a web-development firm (after I plied him with a few cocktails), 90% of the small agencies out there chasing interactive business have one guy on staff who knows anything, …
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Let's pick up one of Danny G.'s favorite topics this morning—privacy, or violations thereof. According to The New York Times, a data miner called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider. Phorm is right now trying to negotiate deals with telephone and cable companies, like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, that provide …
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Didn't anyone learn from the Ogilvy scandal? If you're going to inflate timesheets, pad the bills, or just generally defraud a client, don't make it a government client. From KHQA in Illinois: The owner of a Springfield advertising agency accused of stealing $500,000 in federal funds that was to pay for anti-drunken-driving billboards has pleaded innocent to fraud charges. Robert Sullinger is the owner of Great …
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Courtesy of Valleywag, comes a very dubious ad placement on MSNBC's live stream of Barack Obama's speech today: …
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Newsweek is floating the idea that the heyday for consumer generated content has come and gone. In short, the expert is back. The revival comes amid mounting demand for a more reliable, bankable Web. "People are beginning to recognize that the world is too dangerous a place for faulty information," says Charlotte Beal, a consumer strategist for the Minneapolis-based research firm Iconoculture. Beal adds that choice …
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Chicago agency, Two by Four, is seeking six interns to lend them a hand this summer. Two will be paid, the other four, not so much. [via Lewis Lazare] …
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David Armano is at a conference in New York City this morning. As you can see, he's getting extraordinary value from it. …
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