Designers Who Blog kindly featured AdPulp on their site this week. Catherine (cat) Morley, blogger and founder of the Katz-i International Web & Graphic Design with operations in SE Asia and the UK, said we need an "About" page, since we weren't giving her a lot to go on. Her prompting makes me think of a story. In the spring of 2001, on my 36th birthday no less, Shawn (our publisher) was all of a sudden packing his …
Interesting Interactive
I renewed my subscription to Communication Arts recently and the Interactive Annual 11 arrived today. I'm struck by how far this media environment has come in such short time. Aiwa's winning entry There are 38 winners in five categories--advertising, business, entertainment, information design and self-promo. Maybe blogs could be added to the list for next year. …
RSS Killers On The Loose
Wired: Blog addicts overwhelmed by information may have found their savior. Memeorandum, which started with a focus on political blogs in 2004 and launched a technology version just weeks ago, aims to be the automated newspaper of the online world. It attempts to solve the problem of information overload with a few smart algorithms that constantly track the hot topics in tech and politics blogs. Memeorandum isn't the …
Mossberg Says DRM Reaches Too Far
Walter Mossberg for WSJ: In some quarters of the Internet, the three most hated letters of the alphabet are DRM. They stand for Digital Rights Management, a set of technologies for limiting how people can use the music and video files they've purchased from legal downloading services. DRM is even being used to limit what you can do with the music you buy on physical CDs, or the TV shows you record with a TiVo or …
Real Leaders Listen
Management Issues: The battle to break through the glass ceiling into the boardroom leaves many women negative, worn down and disillusioned that they are not being used to their full potential. The study of 6,000 managers by consultancy ISR found a quarter of women in senior jobs did not feel adequately involved in decision making. Many did not have confidence in what decisions were made, were not encouraged to give …
Not The Official Version
Shaghaiist: Online do-it-yourself encyclopedia Wikipedia, every lazy blogger’s best friend, will not load in Shanghai without the aid of a proxy server. The site worked yesterday. Most assume the free information source has been blocked by the Chinese government. We can’t imagine why. …
“Promotion” Takes It On The Chin
Have you seen or heard the GM line, currently in play, "It's not a promotion. It's a promise."? It's being used to support the manufacturer's "Total Value Promise" on GM cars and trucks. What I find interesting is how willing GM is take a dig at price promotions and other retail offers so common to the showroom floor. …
You Want Transparency I’ll Show You Transparency
It takes guts to be transparent. Blog eveangelists often cite transparency as a key blog benefit, but they don't say a giant set of cojones is required to operate the thing. Robbin Phillips is a CEO up to the transparency challenge. Here's how she handled a recent flub up. Brains on Fire was given a gift this week. In the form of a hard lesson learned. We let a client and friend down. We didn’t live up to our …
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