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Arbiter Of Cool To Visit 35 West Wacker Drive
Denver Post: In the teeming jungle of the blogosphere, most participants range somewhere between drops of dew and army ants - little noticed, soon to disappear. Josh Spear lounges high on a branch, waving his spotted tail: a leopard. He's the prince of particular, the satrap of selection, the chief of choosing, this 21-year-old occasional University of Colorado undergraduate with a unique passion for the things that …
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Flying Rats Used To Sell Stuff
The Spunker has unearthed the most grotesque media placement known to man. Yes, it worse than the guy who tattooed an ad on his forehead. Worse than small towns selling naming rights to corporations. Worse than desperate mothers doing the same with their offspring. These Dutch creatives have managed to attach airplane-style streamers to pigeons. …
The Accretion Of Tiny Marvels
James Cherkoff finally got around to reading Kevin Kelly's Wired article, "We Are The Web," from last August, which is more than I can say. His main point is that there are so many tiny, technological developments occuring that it's easy to overlook the resulting social upheaval. Obviously, Kelly puts it a thousand times more eloquently: "The accretion of tiny marvels can numb us to the arrival of the …
McD’s Uniform Change Year’s Top Story
AdAge.com published nearly 3,000 news stories and features on advertising, marketing and media topics in 2005. "MCDONALD'S PLANS TO REINVENT EMPLOYEE UNIFORMS" is the most viewed story of the year. But you can't view it now, unless you agree to pay for it. …
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Enough With The “C” Word Already
From the Marketing Trenches points to this great bumper sticker. If you would like one, send $5.00 to these fine folks in St. Louis before their supply runs out. …
Pedigree Is Dog Food
Lewis Lazare: Talent Zoo, an ad agency headhunting firm that keeps tabs on hiring trends, often has insights we find to be on the mark. Its latest concern about a streak of "arrogance" in agency hiring these days struck us as worth sharing. Ragan Jones, associate vice president of recruiting, said: In 2002, agencies could afford to be as picky as they wanted about hiring. They could demand pedigree and get it. In …
Google To Muddy Its Results For AOL
NYT: Rebuffing aggressive overtures from Microsoft, Time Warner has agreed to sell a 5 percent stake in America Online to Google for $1 billion as part of an expanded partnership between AOL, once the dominant company on the Internet, and Google, the current online king. Negotiations between the three companies reached a fevered pitch on Thursday night when teams from Google and Microsoft were in separate rooms of …
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