CBS Interactive isn't going to fake it on Superbowl Sunday, they're going to place a real consumer generated video on the airwaves. Mercifully, it will only last 15 seconds. The video above is actually one of the better contest offerings I viewed. It's produced by a You Tube "pro," with 64 homemade videos to her credit. She's even been profiled by SiteSpeed's News of the Day. This video is a better example of …
Reality Strips The Gloss From Magazines (Or Not)
In today's Sunday Style's section, the reality of fashion and popular culture magazines is exposed. What is found there may not please those looking for the fictional renderings recently made popular by books, film and TV. Krishtine De Leon, one of six interns picked to star in an MTV reality series set at Rolling Stone, expected an office out of “Almost Famous,” the 2000 movie about the early-1970s heyday of the …
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The Cure For Common Cultural Cluelessness
High Jive is using classic ads from years gone by to persuade a new audience. Aside from the ad pictured above, he's modified VW's "Think Small" campaign, the old Hathaway shirt ad, an old Avis ad and several others. All drive you to his site, MultiCultClassics, for a more lengthy discourse on the need for minority representation in the ad industry. …
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Art Directors Club Call For Entries Takes On Armageddon
I'll admit I didn't study the Art Directors Club call for entries poster when it came in the mail a couple of weeks ago: It's intended to be the "Final Call For Entries." But over at Little Green Footballs, a right-leaning political blog, the poster was interpreted like this: It’s an impressive panoply of moonbat leftist self-loathing, a desolate nuclear wasteland populated by Republican political leaders holding …
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Entrepreneurs Believe
Former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, Nicholas Carr, looks at the Pranksteresque moves of Steve Jobs. It's hard to imagine the pleasure Steve Jobs must receive from singlehandedly upstaging the entire Consumer Electronics Show. There was just one moment during his two-hour presentation yesterday (at MacWorld) when he went off script, but it was a telling one. His clicker failed, and while he waited …
Six Flags Lowers A Few
According to Washington Post and Bloomberg, Six Flags, the amusement-park chain controlled by Washington Redskins owner Daniel Snyder, is selling seven of its 28 theme parks to Jacksonville-based PARC 7F for $312 million in an effort to improve its balance sheet. The seven parks to be sold are Six Flags Darien Lake near Buffalo; Elitch Gardens in Denver; Frontier City and White Water Bay in Oklahoma City; SplashTown …
Do You Harbor Any Resistance To Always-On Connectivity?
I just began instant messaging and texting last year. Aware of my new undertakings, Shawn--the publisher of this site--welcomed me to the year 2000. So I'm not an early adopter. I can deal with it. What I find interesting is people who resist altogether the watershed changes underway in technology and communications. USA Today lables these unique creatures "tech-nos." Some tech-no's shun e-mail. Others don't use the …
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Pepsi Can’t Sit Still
The Wall Street Journal reports that one of America's iconic brands is going through a late-life identity crisis. Scatch that. The story's really about loss of attention span. Or maybe it's about the Cult of New. You be the judge. PepsiCo Inc. is seeing its cans in a whole new light. For 109 years, the Purchase, N.Y., company has fiercely guarded the packaging of its namesake cola, crafting changes to its labels …
