People With Powerful Profiles

April 3, 2009 By David Burn Leave a Comment

Todd Andrlik, the PR man in Chicago who created The AdAge 150, has been making Power Profile posts on his blog. His latest subject is my friend Rob Walker, author of Buying In, the “Consumed” column in The New York Times Sunday Magazine and Murketing, an online journal.

Here’s one of Walker’s responses that I’m particularly fond of:

How many hours a week do you spend blogging?
Actually I prefer to say “writing for my site,” not “blogging,” if that’s okay with you. I try not to think of “blogging” as somehow being a different form of expression, or genre, than “writing.”
Anyway, I probably spend an average of five hours a week writing stuff for Murketing.com, or other related maintenance of the site.

Other “Power Profiles” on ToddAnd.com include Jerry Pepper, Lewis Green, Valeria Maltoni, Sean Howard, Neil Perkin, David Airey, David Berkowitz, Nedra Kline Weinreich, Lee Odden and Todd profiles himself, as well.

Filed Under: Ad People, Blogs

About David Burn

I wrote my first ad for a local political candidate when I was 17. She went on to win her race, and I felt the power of persuasive copy for the first time. Starting in Portland in 1995, I worked my way across the country as a copywriter and eventually became a content director making media products for big packaged goods brands. I returned to Oregon in 2008, and now I focus on building brands for companies that matter, including this one.