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Facebook is no good. Need proof? Just read this lurid copy from across the pond. Gatecrashers turned a schoolgirl’s 16th birthday party into a riot – after she advertised it on the Facebook website. Georgina Hobday’s £1million town house was ransacked by yobs. Among the trouble-makers were a 20-strong gang called the Facebook Republican Army, who scour websites looking for teenage parties. Yesterday Georgina’s …

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Thinking about Wal-Mart and its predilection for Chinese-made stuff made me wonder if we still make anything in America anymore. Turns out, we do. And you can find lots of stuff on StillMadeInUSA.com. I won't lecture, because lord knows I don't always practice what I preach. But if you have a holiday shopping list that includes some items you can find on that site, you should look into it. …

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Last week's stampede at Wal-Mart on Black Friday was the latest sign that our country is addicted to the pursuit of the lowest price. And that has serious implications for the advertising industry. It's the subject of my new column on Talent Zoo. You can also read it in its entirety after the jump. …

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Breaking news from the mergers and acquisitions department in San Francisco...Six Apart has acquired Pownce. We have been impressed not only with the vision for Pownce but the great work of Leah Culver and Mike Malone and are very happy that they will be joining us. We’re also very excited to welcome Kevin Rose and Daniel Burka as advisers to Six Apart. For Pownce users, we are very sorry the site will be closing. …

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"...turnover with minorities is 30 percent higher than whites at IPG." Adweek used a non-staff writer to put together this report on diversity, and the lack thereof, in the ad industry. While much of the report is nothing new, that 30% stat is huge. Because we're talking about IPG--a very, very large holding company, not some small agency where 30% would only amount to a few folks. With the economy and the ad …

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People backed their not new cars away from their houses with upside down mortgages over the holiday weekend and went shopping. Let's hear it for America! The National Retail Federation's 2008 Black Friday Weekend survey--which measured Friday and Saturday, and used estimates for Sunday--indicates that some 172 million Americans shopped in stores and Web sites over Thanksgiving weekend, an increase from last year's …

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Google and P&G—two companies with vastly different cultures—have been swapping workers this year in effort to learn from one another and to tighten bonds between the two firms. According to The Wall Street Journal closer ties are crucial to both sides. P&G, the biggest advertising spender in the world, is waking up to the reality that the next generation of laundry-detergent, toilet-paper and skin-cream buyers now …

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Cooking the bird on Thanksgiving can be a nerve-wracking experience. Your family and friends are counting on you. There's little room for error. That's why Butterball instituted a help line, 1-800-BUTTERBALL (1-800-288-8372) back in 1981. Since then, the help line—one of the first ever created—has become an unparalleled marketing tool for the company, even playing a starring role in a Thanksgiving episode of NBC's …

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