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Work Like You’re Showing Off! Exclamation Points Included

I have to admit, it's a little hard to come home after a day of dealing with client nonsense and try to tackle a book called "Work Like You're Showing Off! The Joy, Jazz and Kick of Being Better Tomorrow Than You Were Today." Especially when there's an exclamation point in the title and 2 dudes in suits literally jumping for joy on the cover. But the book, written by Joe Calloway, a restauranteur and public speaker, …

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Facebook And Cultural Hegemony

One of the interweb's most famous academics, Danah Boyd, weighs in on class divisions found in social networking preferences among teens. The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in …

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Nando Goes Commando

Nando's Chicken Restaurants in the U.K. found a breakthrough means to espress the chain's addictive qualities. They cast a "working" mom as a poultry addict in need of a nicotine-like patch to assuage her hunger pangs. But the patch got in the way of her work duties, so she and her cute little family had to actually show up at Nando's for a meal. For this campaign to really hit home, there needs to be a point-of-sale …

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While Cannes Burns…

Scott Donaton, Publisher of Advertising Age, wanted sparks to fly from the panel he moderated in Cannes last week. Instead, he could barely muster enough smoke to smudge an industry wallowing in denial. Here's what we learned at the high-powered Cannes Debate panel on agency reinvention, which I moderated during last week's International Advertising Festival: next to nothing. Here's what that means: The ad business …

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Ad Blog Link Love

A few great posts on some other blogs recently, if you haven't yet checked them out: Tangerine Toad has a great 3-part series on "Web 2.0 Unmasked," exposing the issues faced when pushing brands in new media applications. HighJive at MultiCultClassics outlines "an abridged lineup of stereotypical characters that effortlessly land Madison Avenue positions ahead of minorities." I've never worked in New York City ad …

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Diversity Threatened By Institutional Greed

I went to stream some indie rock on WOXY this morning, but none came through. Today is a The Day of Silence, an international protest against exorbitant royalty rates that threaten the existence of all but the most well funded webcasters. The Internet Radio Equality Act has recently been introduced in both the House and Senate to save the Internet radio industry. Webcasters are hoping The Day of Silence will …

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Print Goes Up In Smoke

Ad Age is running an interesting piece on the death of cigarette advertising. At a time when the FDA would like to control tobacco and possibly make print advertising for cigs illegal (to match the existing TV and radio bans), the move may prove to be purely symbolic (if it happens), for Big Tobacco has already curtailed this activity. In 2006, for the first time since Philip Morris created the Marlboro Man in 1955, …

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