You know something's big when the satire commences. From Sean Bonner: Since the internets were invented we've all been trying to figure out what they can be best used for, how that can improved our lives, and how we can monetize the fuck out of that. Who ever could have guessed that I'd be the one to figure it out? Well, it's been a long three days since this was conceived in the back channel at etech, but the …
A Murdochian Pronouncement
From Media Guardian: Rupert Murdoch last night sounded the death knell for the era of the media baron, comparing today's internet pioneers with explorers such as Christopher Columbus and John Cabot and hailing the arrival of a "second great age of discovery". The News Corp media magnate nurtures a long-held distaste for "the establishment" but last night confided to one of the few clubs to which he does belong - The …
Now You’re Ready For A Man Bag
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Calcium Deprived Aliens Steal Our Milk Source
Journalists hate the abduction of their sacred news pages by advertising, particularly when it is disguised as editorial. Something tells me no one is going to care too much that supermarket tabloid, Weekly World News has been so co-opted. Here's a bit from the tabloid's web site: In its March 13th issue, the Weekly World News brings you the world exclusive story of the mysterious cow abductions that have been …
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Hats Off To Hill | Holiday
Hill | Holiday scrapped their brochureware site in favor of a blog--the largest, most influential agency to date to do so. Yep, we've read all the headlines, digested all the stats. The foundations of mid-20th century marketing are eroding all around us. So what are we going to do about it? Discuss. Ernie Schenck is one of the blog's contributing writers. As far as I know, Schenck is not on the HHCC payroll today, …
Newsweek Calls Calacanis “The Man”
Newsweek interviewed Jason Calacanis, "the man" who founded Weblogs, Inc. and quickly sold it to AOL for upwards of $25 million. Does Time Warner have any concerns about your content and the unfiltered nature of blogs? When the magazine industry or the newspaper industry looks at blogging, they say over and over again, "Where's your fact-checking process?" AOL looked at us and said, "You're like a message board or a …
Stop Gap
Lucinda Rosenfeld explores what happened to The Gap for Slate: These days, I never think of walking into a Gap. And neither, it seems, does anyone else. Last year, profits at North American Gap stores fell 10 percent, while the share price of Gap Inc.—which includes Banana Republic and Old Navy—fell 16.5 percent. Once synonymous with the very category of mid- to high-end chain stores it helped to invent, the Gap is …
Sneakers Freakers
From Time: By 9:35 on a recent Friday night, Dominique Thomas had been camped outside the Niketown store in South Miami for two full days. Thomas, who goes by the street name DK the Line Pimp, had flown in from Denver and was first in line to buy the $100 Cowboy Air Max 180s, which were scheduled to go on sale at 10 that night. Just 140 pairs of these limited-edition sneakers--a hunter green, lizard-skin design with …
Bouldergusky’s Rocky Mountain High
In their January issue, Creativity asked Alex Bouldergusky, "Why Boulder?" I think because it's very different from Miami, and we wanted to give our people a choice, an option. In some ways it's completely opposite from Miami, and that's good. Also, the Boulder/Denver area didn't have an agency where we thought we would be stealing their home turf. I believe Jonathan Schoenberg of TDA may have a slightly different …
Blogging Your Way To The Boardroom
From PR Week: During the nascent days of blogging, when both emerging and large corporations were firing staffers for blogging-related offenses, the jury was out on whether blogging was a nefarious habit, to be hidden when applying for jobs, or a positive career move. The recent ascension of two high-profile bloggers - Steve Rubel, formerly of CooperKatz, and Jeremy Pepper, formerly of his own firm Pop PR, who were …