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By David Burn
I finished reading Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.'s Breakfast of Champions today. Had I read it as an undergrad like a good English major, I might have been persuaded to skip out on an ad career altogether. Critic, Marek Vit, says, "The novel attacks many things: slavery, racism, commercial greed, jingoism, ecology, capitalism, imperialism, overpopulation etc., all of these aimed precisely at modern American society." I'd add to …
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By David Burn
Danah Boyd asked herself, "What is Web2.0 and why does it matter?" It seems that's the type of thing Ph.D. candidates at Cal Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems do in their spare time. Web2.0 is about glocalization, it is about making global information available to local social contexts and giving people the flexibility to find, organize, share and create information in a locally meaningful …
By David Burn
Idle Type points to this guy who made his prom tux out of Coke cans. …
By David Burn
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Ruth's Chris is permanently relocating its headquarters from New Orleans—the city where it got its start—to Orlando, Florida. On Aug. 31, not long after the levees burst in New Orleans, the top executives of Ruth's Chris Steakhouse gathered in the lobby of the Orlando Embassy Suites for an hourlong, soul-searching meeting. "It was probably one of the toughest decisions that …
By David Burn
Given that Sir Paul has lent his name and music to Fidelity Investments and Bob Dylan is hawking lingerie, I suppose it should come as no surprise that one needs a working American Express card to buy tickets for the upcoming Cream shows in Madison Square Garden this October. Market Wire: American Express has a long history of providing special access and meaningful experiences to Cardmembers. As part of this ongoing …
This from Ad Age: Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Eddie Lampert has demoted Sears CEO Alan Lacy, replacing him with former Kmart CEO Aylwin Lewis, while expanding his own role in day-to-day merchandising and marketing duties. Analysts and industry watchers lambasted Mr. Lampert’s move to take a more active role in merging marketing at Sears and Kmart, saying the hedge-fund manager and financier, whose company ESL …
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By David Burn
A store owner in New Orleans gets the word out. …
By David Burn
Guardian Unlimited: Bic, the company that has made a fortune out of things to be thrown away, has sold its 100 billionth disposable ballpoint - selling an average of 57 pens every second since it was launched in 1950. According to the company, that is enough pens to stretch 40 times the distance from the earth to the moon if laid end to end or to fill the Arc de Triomphe 23 times over. The transparent Bic Cristal …
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