Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters is picketing Ross and Nordstrom Rack in downtown Portland. I received a leaflet in front of both stores today. The Council of Carpenters believes Ross and Nordstrom have "an obligation to the community to see that area labor standards are met for construction work performed on their projects." The union claims that the contractors employed by Ross and Nordstrom …
Great User Experience Wins CA’s Approval
We've all heard, and maybe told, stories about how horrible the agency Web site is. Of course, it need not be that way, but all too often it is. Thankfully, that's not the case at DDB Canada. DDB Canada's self-promo site is featured in this year's CA Interactive Annual. Josh Fehr, an art director on the project, said, “The biggest challenge was the task of representing ourselves. We work everyday at a …
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Spotlight On NW Creative: Periscopic
Portland-based Periscopic is a socially conscious information visualization firm, and a featured winner in this year's CA Interactive Annual for their work on VoteEasy, a project by the nonpartisan group, Project Vote Smart. Utilizing thousands of hours of research and a vast collection of data, this voter education tool allows the general public to quickly and easily see how closely political candidates align …
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Empty Pipes Don’t Do The Pipemaker Good
The two words, "video content" are sweet music to the ears of many thousands of people who make, optimize and deliver video content, and to millions more who enjoy watching it. While indie filmmakers and small production companies rule the creative roost, when it comes to delivery of video content, YouTube's parent company, The Google, is king. And the king wants its subjects to bask in the glory of the coming …
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Freedom Runs On Information, And Google Loves Information
Sticks and stones make break Google's bones, but words will never hurt her. Yet, dart-like words are flying. According to Times of India, Google denied that the US government meddles in its business decisions after Chinese state media published an opinion piece saying the Internet-search company is a "tool" of US foreign policy. Google is "playing its political cards in China" after helping disseminate …
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Skinny Sneaks To Go With Your Skinny Jeans
In an effort to inspire a new generation of sneaker wearers, the 100-year-old US footwear brand - Keds - recently launched their "How Do You Do" campaign. As part of the new campaign, The Wade Brothers were asked to shot a huge range of still images as well as motion "bios" of local artists. …
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Conspire To Meet
iMeet is a simple new way to host meetings online. "For iMeet, seeing is believing," says Cory at Muhtayzik Hoffer, "so we’ve reconstructed some of the most important meetings in history, as they might have happened in an iMeet room." …
What Do You Call Reality TV When It Veers From Reality? A Commercial.
"Cooking With Emeril Lagasse's Attorney" and "Cooking With A Guy Who Looks A Bit Like Emeril Lagasse" from new Philadelphia Cooking Creme have close to one million views on YouTube. Aside from the YouTube love, Friend of AdPulp, Vinny Warren, and his team at The Escape Pod are also feeling the love from an unexpected source--Lewis Lazare of Chicago Sun Times. Warren is careful not to push the tone of the …
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Know Your Readers, Serve Your Readers
The New York Times, which is about to unveil its own pay wall, is looking admiringly at London's Financial Times in an article about the power of, and fight over, data. “We’ve moved almost from the dark ages to an age of enlightenment in terms of understanding our readers,” John Ridding, the chief executive of The FT, said last week. Mr. Ridding said improvements in collecting and mining customer data were …
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Some Serious Numbers On Display
During the Morgan Stanley Tech, Media & Telecom Conference in San Francisco last week, Neal Mohan, Google's vice president for product management, said the company has some 1,000 engineers around the world working to eliminate complexity and challenges from the Internet display advertising market, an effort that will prompt more advertisers to spend more of their budgets online. Mr. Mohan, who is responsible …