Douglas Rushkoff, the brainiac who brought the world "The Merchants of Cool" and "The Persuaders" on PBS' Frontline, has written his first business book, Get Back In The Box, in which he "contextualizes the open source ethos as part of a bigger renaissance: the emergence of an authorship society." This renaissance ethos of authorship isn't limited to some isolated group of “cultural creatives” in New York, San …
Spill A Heine
The latest in Publicis New York's "It's all about the beer" campaign. [via Adhunt] …
Gawker Joins The Mainstream
Yahoo News will begin to feature content from Gawker Media. Which means the snarkiness found on Gawker Media sites like Wonkette and Defamer will now share equal footing with stories filed by MSM institutions like Associated Press. According to MediaPost, Scott Moore, Yahoo!'s head of news and finance, said the idea to add Gawker came up over dinner with its founder and publisher Nick Denton. "It seemed like a …
Lazarian Roundup
Lewis Lazare shares some worthwhile tidbits today in his Chicago Sun Times advertising column. • The Joffrey Ballet and Ghirardelli Soda Fountain & Chocolate Shop are teaming up to promote Joffrey's 50th anniversary and Ghirardelli's 10th year in Chicago. Ghirardelli has unveiled a new shop window display with Joffrey costumes, the first time anything but chocolate will have been featured there. • Dunkin' Brands is …
Big Box May Resize In Wake Of Mother Nature’s Fury
In a move that can only be described as totally unexpected (or better yet, jaw-dropping), Wal-Mart is looking at a new urbanism proposal in Pass Christian, Mississippi--a town decimated by Hurricane Katrina. [via Reveries] …
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A-B Crying In Its Beer (When It Could Be Competing)
According to Ad Age, Anheuser-Busch is asking cable networks to not run a rival’s ads claiming Bud Light has changed. The Miller Brewing Co. ads in question, from MDC Partners’ Crispin Porter & Bogusky use humorous courtroom settings to push Miller’s ongoing claim that Miller Lite has more taste than Bud Light. The ads, one of which features Flavor Flav of Public Enemy, describe Bud Light as having “changed.” The ads …
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Sponsors Slam On The Brakes
According to The New York Times, last weekend outside Phoenix International Raceway, Kurt Busch, the 2004 Nextel Cup champion, received a citation for reckless driving in an incident that involved alcohol. Apparently, Busch behaved in a belligerent manner toward the Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies during the incident. Proof of his intoxication, however, is inconclusive. Given Nascar's decision to allow liquor …
MSM Continues To Hit Snooze Button
Charles Cooper is the executive editor of commentary at CNET News.com. He has an interesting take on MSM's propensity for head in the sand behavior in the face of their rapidly diminishing market share. During a panel discussion on Internet versus traditional media that I attended this week in Santa Clara, tech columnist John Markoff of The New York Times and tech columnist Kara Swisher of The Wall Street Journal …
Flickrization Of Yahoo Well Underway
Business 2.0: “I look at Flickr with envy,” Jerry Yang, co-founder and chief of Yahoo says. “It feels like where the Web is going.” What Yang envies is the community of 1.5 million rabidly loyal users Flickr has cultivated and the vast amount of content they’ve created. Of the 60 million photos uploaded to the site so far, more than 80 percent are public, meaning that anyone can look at them. More than half have been …
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NBA Players Spiff Up Off The Court
USA Today: Menswear designer Joseph Abboud is in negotiations to outfit up to 100 NBA players, according to Marty Staff, the fashion company's president and CEO. Joseph Abboud has an endorsement deal with New York Knicks guard Stephon Marbury to provide a new suit for all 82 games this season. In return, Marbury is in Joseph Abboud ads. Joseph Abboud has forged similar outfitting deals with tight end Jeremy Shockey …