Those Bastards, the meanest weblog on the web, has given birth to the Dave Winer "Bastards of the Blog" card. [via Blogebrity] …
Google’s Brain Fuel
from Brett's "Google Food" Photo Blog [via Kottke] …
Rollin’ With The Changes
Jennifer Rice: One of my favorite posts over the past two years is titled Blogging and the Singularity. If you're not familiar with the Singularity, it's the point when societal, scientific and economic change is so fast we cannot imagine what will happen from our present perspective. The idea is based on the premise that the rate of change is exponential, not linear; the rate of change in the past is a snail's pace …
Slice And Dice Technology Helps Keep Brands On Message
Visible World is "the leading provider of technology, tools and services that enable targeted customized television advertising." In other words, they're promising direct mail-style pinpointing for the world's favorite medium. According to Wired: Targeting cable TV ads to a particular neighborhood has always been tricky. In the past, if a local gas station wanted to advertise only to nearby households, the ad had to …
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Commericals Are Really Just Short “Shorts”
This Adweek article claims, "Selling Out Is Now In." Somehow, I doubt that. Even in Hollywood. As those of you who have unsuccessfully courted A-list celebrities for your U.S. campaigns know, despite being offered beaucoup bucks, incredibly short working hours and ridiculously lavish perks, many of these famous folk have said no way for fear of tarnishing their images. But in recent years, American advertising has …
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Times Buys Its Condensed Version
Martin Nisenholtz, Senior Vice President of New York Times Digital speaking to Rafat Ali of Paid Content: "We also acquired BlogRunner last year, which is a news aggregator. We discovered it on the Web because the guy who was running it created the Annotated Times. The site took the blogosphere and organizes it by article content, so if the top story in NYTimes is about social security, then it would take all the …
I Didn’t Know Fallon Had A “B” Team
Lewis Lazare: Last spring, Jerry Dow flew the coop at United Airlines, where he helped orchestrate the debut of the carrier's glorious "It's Time to Fly" campaign, to become chief marketing officer for the National and Alamo car rental companies. It took only a few weeks for Dow to initiate an agency review for the two car rental brands that resulted in Fallon/Minneapolis becoming the new ad agency of record for both …
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Building The Foundation With Story
Caterina points to the launch of Web 2.0 firm, Plum. Hans Peter, Plum's founder, said this about the launch: There are many reasons to start companies. Perhaps we observe inefficiencies and opportunities in the market and realize that we can build a better solution. Or we see how something could work so much better and try to make it happen. Or we want to work in an environment where we can have real influence or …