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Softpedia: Supermodel Kate Moss apologized to her bosses for using drugs and promised to enter rehab, after a British tabloid ran photos of her doing lines of cocaine in a London recording studio. Moss, 31, who was photographed by Daily Mirror journalists snorting a line of the class A drug on the back of a CD cover in the studio where Babyshambles were recording their album, apologized to high street fashion house …
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Wired: Apple is ordering several online iPod accessory vendors to stop using the word "iPod" in their names or URLs. "Although on the surface it looks like Apple is being overly heavy-handed with this approach, protection of its brand is important," Steve Hawkins, managing director of A M Micro, said. "Authorized Apple resellers, for example, have very clear guidelines to follow regarding the use of trademarks. It …
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International Herald Tribune: Amsterdam is emerging as a plucky player in the global advertising market. Amsterdam-based agencies, particularly small "hot shops" like 180 are snatching multinational clients away from sprawling agency groups based in London or New York. "We've created a sort of mini-UN here," Guy Hayward says of 180, which is based in the house along the Herengracht canal. "We have people from all …
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Steve Hall of Adrants wrote last week about Chrysler's half-hearted entry into the bloatoshpere. Half-hearted because one must present MSM credentials to "qualify" to read Chrysler's press releases. I mean, how late 20th century can you get? Detroit News: The blogosphere can be a jungle, as Chrysler is finding out. The U.S. division of DaimlerChrysler AG recently launched a Weblog called thefirehouse.biz designed to …
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The New York Times: Chalk up another success for McClatchy, one of the best-kept secrets in the newspaper industry. The chain, with 12 dailies, including The Star Tribune in Minneapolis, The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., The Island Packet in Hilton head Island and The Sacramento Bee, has one of the lowest profiles in the business but one of the strongest track records, both for award-winning journalism and a …
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Butler Shine's Influx Insights features a write up on Paragraph, a new work space for writers. Their interest is centered around the idea of cultural hubs and how brands might benefit from the creation of such places. In the case of Paragraph, it's not a brand, but an entrepreneurial team of writers behind the launch of this for profit collaborative workspace. Memberships go for $132 a month. Less, if you pay in a …
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The Wieden + Kennedy creative team who gave birth to inspirational advertising for Nike's womens line in the mid-1990s are back. Janet Champ and Charlotte Moore have written a book and they have a brand new blog in support of said book. Ripe: The Truth About Getting Older and The Beauty of Getting On With Your LIfe picks up where the two left off, on womens' health and self-image issues, issues related to aging and …
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Ok, I watched the President's speech last night. Did anybody else cringe when he said this: Many families were separated during the evacuation, and we are working to help you reunite. Please call 1-877-568-3317, that’s 1-877-568-3317, and we will work to bring your family back together, and pay for your travel to reach them. You know you've got a bad speechwriter when he inserts bad radio commercial cliches in there. …
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