Katharine Weymouth, a granddaughter of the late Washington Post Co. chairman Katharine Graham and niece of Tina Weymouth, the bass guitarist in the new wave band Talking Heads, has been named chief executive of Washington Post Media, a new division that will oversee The Washington Post newspaper and its online component, washingtonpost.com. Weymouth, 41, will also serve as the newspaper's publisher, the fifth member …
The Garfield Brouhaha
Bob Garfield of Ad Age didn't like reading about how his Super Bowl ad commentary was framed as "retarded" on the interweb's most popular ad blog. So he did what any good citizen of Media 2.0 does—engage. Here's the difference between criticism and whatever it is you and your commenters do: A critic makes judgments supported by analysis and argument, then signs his name and takes responsibility for his words. What …
HOW Redesign Vs. Adweek Redesign
Catharine P. Taylor wants to know what we think of the new Adweek site design. I'm thinking it might be instructive to compare their remodel to HOW's new upgrade. In other trade rag news, something funny's happening in the comments on Brand Autopsy's "Would You Miss Advertising Age?" post. …
Jack’s Secret Weapon
LA Times features Santa Monica agency, Secret Weapon, today. It seems the SW principals took VW's sage advice to "Think Small" to heart. The independent Secret Weapon, with 25 employees, has by design at most three clients at any given time. "I have friends who run big agencies, with 20 clients, and there's always a fire to be put out somewhere," Sittig, Secret Weapon's founder and creative director, said recently. …
Denver Shops Find Their Blogging Groove
When I worked at The Integer Group, I launched KTIG, a now defunct internet radio station. I also helped launch an internal wiki for teams working on the Coors business. But blogs were still new to me back then. Today, following a bunch of links from The Denver Egotist, I landed on Shopper Culture, an Integer blog which looks to be an outgrowth of Meg Kinney's "Exploration of America's Relationship to Shopping." I …
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Today In Twitterverse: MySpace on the Chumby
Eric Rice is a Silicon Valley based artist and designer. The chumby is a compact device that displays useful and entertaining information from the web using your wireless internet connection. …
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Yet Another Facebook Story: iPhone Edition
Until I saw it on TV last night, I didn't know there was an iPhone specific version of Facebook. But there is and Apple wants the MyFaceSpacers to know about it. …
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Garbage Men Clean Up
Waste Management. Quick. Do you think Tony Soprano? Or do you think green pioneer? The New York Times has the story... “We want all people to think of Waste Management as an environmental services company, not just one that picks up trash,” said Brooke B. Farrell, a vice president of FKM, Waste Management’s longtime advertising agency. For the last three years Waste Management has been spending $25 million to $30 …
