I'm an adamant believer that folks who use cell phones don't want a bevy of interruptive messages from marketers, but... Seeing the entire web on my iPhone, the possibilities open up. If it's done smartly. …
Repurposing Thoughts On Original Content
Jory Des Jardin, one of the founders of BlogHer, on the value of producing original content: I get bored with blog content that simply riffs off of other content, even though there are content providers who do very well with this tactic. Let's be realistic: we need interpreters and evaluators of original content, but I didn't begin blogging with an eye toward keywords to embed, or A-List bloggers to emulate, in my …
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We’re Huge In Sweden
So I made my debut on Swedish National Radio today, on the show Medierna talking about the 2 Unilever ads that have quite different messages. If you're curious, click here to listen or download the June 30th show. It's a 30 minute show, and I appear somewhere around 26 minutes into it. But except for me, the whole show is in Swedish. And a long overdue shout-out to The Consumerist, where the Fair & Lovely ad first …
iGot A Useless Phone, So Far
Okay, so I took off from work at 4:30 yesterday to go stand in line at the AT&T store to get an iPhone. That wasn't bad. Got out of there at 6:45, hoping to post a shot of the AdPulp home page as it appears on my iPhone. You know, just to complete the cycle of geekdom I reside in. But instead, I get home and I find out the activation could take up to 24 hours because I'm switching from Verizon using my old cell …
Take A Peek Inside
Advertising Lab points to a new blog named for a Talking Heads' song. Ain't No Disco "invites agencies from across the world to show their inner sanctums." Whilst our main focus is to showcase these interiors we also hope that this site will act as a good resource for seeking agencies of different specialties across the world, providing information about the agency, contact details, specialisms and a sneak peak into …
A SlideShare Find
Slide by Black Belt Jones According to Wikipedia, throughout his life Buckminster Fuller was concerned with the question "Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?" Considering himself an average individual without special monetary means or academic degree, he chose to devote his life to this question, trying to find out what an individual like him could do to …
Today In Twitterville
What Ariel Waldman is talking about: Boss: "Sex is what drives the web." Coworker to me: "And your BLOG." Boss to me: "And your TWITTER. Twitter that, bitch!" What Steve Rubel is doing: Security at the mall is keeping us outside. Thankfully weather is fine. I feel like one of the oldest here. What Kate Consumption is doing: updating all of my social apps. like a big nerd. What iJustine is dealing with: Apparently …
Integrated Marketing Comes To 720 California St.
Will McGinness tears down walls for a living. Yet, he collects little dust. McGinness joinied Goodby Silverstein + Partners as Interactive Creative Director after working on the VW account at Arnold. Now, he goes by the abbreviated title of Creative Director to reinforce the fact that interactive is no longer a separate discipline at Goodby. BusinessWeek has more... "We no longer have a separate interactive …
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