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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Low Tar Claim Ruled Okay
Adweek: The Illinois Supreme Court handed Altria Group's Philip Morris USA a significant victory today, overturning a lower court ruling that the tobacco company had misled smokers about the health risks of so-called "light" cigarettes. The original decision said the company had "intended to deceive consumers" into thinking that its Cambridge Light and Marlboro Light cigarettes were somehow less harmful than regular …
Typepad Drops Content (I’m Sure They’ll Put It Back Before Long)
I just noticed that Random Culture and Micropersuasion are both missing current content, back to Dec. 10th. So I searched Google for "Typepad problems." This is what came back from Netcraft: Problems persist at the popular blog hosting service TypePad, with numerous users reporting that they are unable to access their blog management system. In addition, a number of TypePad users report that posts from the past three …
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