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In the wake of Paul Tilley's suicide, advertising industry blogs are getting a closer look, including some quotes from George Parker. From today's New York Times: After Mr. Tilley’s death was reported, the comments beneath the AgencySpy blog posting turned sharply to recriminations from people identifying themselves as friends, colleagues or relatives of the DDB executive. “You should all be ashamed. Because you …

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Talking Points Memo is the first Internet-only news operation to receive the George Polk Award, an award for Internet reporting given by the Center for Public Integrity. the TPM newsroom in Manhattan I like how The New York Times frames the story: Of the many landmarks along a journalist’s career, two are among those that stand out: winning an award and making the government back down. Last week, Joshua Micah …

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I'm a big fan of Steve McKee's articles in BusinessWeek, but I often wonder if anyone takes his advice to heart. His new one is called "Get the Most Out of Your Ad Agency" and it's full of tips for small business owners who work with agencies. Here's one tip: Value risk. For advertising to be attention-getting, it has to be different. And anything different is risky. In every other avenue of your business you know …

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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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Phil Mooney has been in charge of The Coca-Cola Company's archives since 1977. In his role as archivist, he has conducted numerous interviews for radio and television including three segments on the Today Show and appearances on The History Channel, the Food Network and CNN. He also writes "Collectors Columns" as a means to keep in touch with collectors and other interested parties. Now (that it's 2008) he has a …

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According to BusinessWeek, over 99% of all the pings and updates pouring into Technorati’s servers come from spam blogs. Technorati CEO, David Sifry’s take: “All healthy ecosystems have parasites.” Wikipedia's definition of spam blog: Spam blogs, sometimes referred to by the neologism splogs, are artificially created weblog sites which the author uses to promote affiliated websites or to increase the search engine …

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Amy Jussel, Founder and Executive Director of Shaping Youth, is unhappy with the sexual innuendo implied in this outdoor board from Target. What's wrong with the ad can be debated, but there's little to debate in Target's response to Amy. “Good Morning Amy, Thank you for contacting Target; unfortunately we are unable to respond to your inquiry because Target does not participate with non-traditional media outlets. …

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I like when bloggers report earnings. It makes me think and gives me hope. The Wall Street Journal has two bloggers on record in an article about advertising on blogs. Darren Rowse of ProBlogger says he made $250,000 in 2007. ProBlogger's Alexa ranking is insanely high at 2,994. There's clearly a huge audience for Rowse's type of advice. Rhett Butler, founder of Mongabay.com, a site with articles on rainforest …

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