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  • Links for December 1st through December 6th

    Things I'm tracking for December 1st through December 6th: How Obama Came to Plan for ‘Surge’ in Afghanistan - NYTimes.com - Married (Happily) With Issues - NYTimes.com - "That night, the image that came to mind, which I shared with Dan, was that I had been viewing our marriage like the'" [...]
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    Fetched: December 06, 2009, 1:42pm EST

  • Links for November 29th through November 30th

    Things I'm tracking for November 29th through November 30th: The Media Equation - For Media, a Sunset Is Followed Quickly by a Sunrise - NYTimes.com - "For those of us who work in Manhattan media, it means that a life of occasional excess and prerogative has been replaced by a drum'" [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 10:41am EST

  • Links for November 18th through November 29th

    Things I'm tracking for November 18th through November 29th: The costs of Hollywood spending - Entertainment News, Peter Bart, Media - Variety - How Interactive TV Ads Work - WSJ.com - The Future Of Micropayments - Forbes.com - Attack Of The iZombies - IDS 110 Project By Krystle Song - Interesting' [...]
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    Fetched: November 30, 2009, 3:42am EST

  • FOUND! That childhood book I couldn’t remember…

    For any of you interested in my quest to find a childhood book that I couldn't identify, my sanity has been saved by the father/son team of Jerry and David Daniel. Jerry spied my plea for help on Facebook and made it his personal mission to help me find it, and' [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 10:45pm EST

  • The lack of persistence of childhood memories

    As a parent, watching my kids grow bumps into memories of my own childhood, sometimes with stark clarity and sometimes like when you forget about that top step when walking up a staircase in a dream. Now that my eight year old girl has become a big reader, I find myself [...]
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    Fetched: November 19, 2009, 11:42am EST

  • Links for November 18th

    Things I'm tracking for November 18th: 3ScreenQ209_US_rpt_090209.pdf (application/pdf Object) - How to Ignore the Yes-Man in Your Head When Investing - WSJ.com - Marketing Helps Del Monte Thrive During the Recession - IMD - Tomorrow's Challenges - McKinsey & Company - MGI Home - trendwatching.com's December 2009 Trend Briefing covering "10'" [...]
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    Fetched: November 18, 2009, 10:42pm EST

  • Links for November 16th

    Things I'm tracking for November 16th: Is Marketing a Strategic Resource or a Commodity, by Randall Rothenberg - The ordeal of the newspaper industry and the opportunism of the agencies would seem to have little in common. But both derive from the same intrinsic belief: that marketing, necessarily realized through media' [...]
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    Fetched: November 17, 2009, 11:51am EST

  • Links for November 12th through November 15th

    Things I'm tracking for November 12th through November 15th: Jarvis Coffin: The Rise of the Audience Marketplace - The Illusion of Brand Control - Andrew McAfee - Harvard Business Review - The Unfulfilled Promise of Online Analytics, Part 1 | The Analytics Ecology - The History of the Internet in a' [...]
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    Fetched: November 16, 2009, 6:42am EST

  • Links for November 1st through November 12th

    Things I'm tracking for November 1st through November 12th: On Being a Bad Mother - The Atlantic (December 2009) - I myself am not just an imperfect mother, I am a bad mother. I am bad not in that fluttery, anxious, 21st-century way educated middle-class mothers consider themselves “failures” because they' [...]
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    Fetched: November 12, 2009, 11:50pm EST

  • Links for October 29th through November 1st

    Things I'm tracking for October 29th through November 1st: FCC taps Steve Waldman for important yet hard to describe job | Company Town | Los Angeles Times - Ugly Betty Gets Prettier - WSJ.com - Digital Life with Shelly Palmer - YouTube - Pranav Mistry - Phd Student in MIT -' [...]
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    Fetched: November 01, 2009, 5:50am EST

  • Links for October 25th through October 29th

    Things I'm tracking for October 25th through October 29th: Media Tech Business » Full Ad Revenue Report now available for download - Twitter / eMarketer: Stat of the day: 74% have ... - Stat of the day: 74% have more positive impression of a brand after interacting on social media http://bit.ly/ctDDC Amateurs' [...]
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    Fetched: October 29, 2009, 7:42pm EDT

  • Links for October 15th through October 22nd

    Things I'm tracking for October 15th through October 22nd: 500 Internal Server Error - 500 Internal Server Error Advertising - Where Advertisers Can Connect with Athletes - NYTimes.com - A TV Guy Walks Onto an Advertising Panel - Media Decoder Blog - NYTimes.com - Off the Shelf, Onto the Laptop - Libraries' [...]
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    Fetched: October 22, 2009, 10:42am EDT

  • Links for October 12th through October 13th

    Things I'm tracking for October 12th through October 13th: What I've learned about Hyperlocal (Scripting News) - The Web’s Inventor Regrets One Small Thing - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - the lesson of the Web, Mr. Berners-Lee said, is that making information and simple online tools freely available inevitably fuels innovation. [...]
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    Fetched: October 14, 2009, 5:42am EDT

  • Links for October 11th through October 12th

    Things I'm tracking for October 11th through October 12th: The End of the Email Era - WSJ.com - More on the alleged coming death of email... "You can argue that because we have more ways to send more messages, we spend more time doing it. That may make us more productive,'" [...]
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    Fetched: October 12, 2009, 5:42pm EDT

  • Links for October 8th through October 9th

    Things I'm tracking for October 8th through October 9th: More Trouble for the Click-Through - eMarketer - eMarketer Analyzes Latest Ad Spend Numbers - eMarketer - Optimizing Keywords and Match Types Using the adCenter Add-In for Excel - Optimizing Keywords and Match Types Using the adCenter Add-In for Excel - Looking' [...]
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    Fetched: October 09, 2009, 1:42pm EDT

  • Links for October 5th through October 8th

    Things I'm tracking for October 5th through October 8th: The Declining Soccer Mom - WSJ.com - "A household with kids and a working mom not only isn't the norm today, it isn't even close to the norm. Two-thirds of all households have no children in them at all – but most'" [...]
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    Fetched: October 08, 2009, 6:42pm EDT

  • Open Letter to Jeff Bezos: Please Create an Amazon.com Tip Jar

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Dear Jeff, I'm a fan, a BIG fan, both of you and of Amazon.com. Want specifics? I got the very first Kindle and later the Kindle Dx. Love 'em, and sometimes buy the same book in digital AND hardcover formats... both from Amazon. I'm a Prime' [...]
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    Fetched: October 06, 2009, 6:42pm EDT

  • Links for September 30th through October 5th

    Things I'm tracking for September 30th through October 5th: Interview: Behind The Scenes With 15 Gigs, Fox’s Stealthy Digital Content Incubator | paidContent - Nice interview by Tameka. eLink-In Focus-Issue 47 Archive - The old interview I did with Barbara Mikkelson of Snopes.com... could only find it at the always-useful internet archive's [...]
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    Fetched: October 05, 2009, 12:43pm EDT

  • Links for September 29th through September 30th

    Things I'm tracking for September 29th through September 30th: FT.com / UK - Web beats TV to biggest advertising share - Huge! Vacation Relaxation (comic) - Worth a click. The FWA: Favourite Website Awards - Web awards at the cutting edge - Nifty! Tweeted by @tombed Working Element - Really lovely collection of stills' [...]
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    Fetched: September 30, 2009, 1:42pm EDT

  • Links for September 27th through September 28th

    Things I'm tracking for September 27th through September 28th: Welcome to iggli - This looks interesting... Medium-Rare Finds | Burger Insanity in Portland - The Moment Blog - NYTimes.com - Ping - How Sharing Links Has Become Big Business - NYTimes.com - Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker' [...]
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    Fetched: September 28, 2009, 9:42pm EDT

  • Links for September 12th through September 23rd

    Things I'm tracking for September 12th through September 23rd: Op-Ed Contributor - Big Food vs. Big Insurance - NYTimes.com - Cheap food is going to be popular as long as the social and environmental costs of that food are charged to the future. There’s lots of money to be made selling' [...]
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    Fetched: September 23, 2009, 4:42pm EDT

  • Links for September 2nd through September 11th

    Things I'm tracking for September 2nd through September 11th: Google Just Showed Amazon How to Save the Content Biz « blog maverick - Really interesting post by Mr. Cuban. 50 things that are being killed by the internet - Telegraph - Getting a superhero education in Oregon | Hero Complex | Los' [...]
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    Fetched: September 11, 2009, 11:43pm EDT

  • Links for August 24th through August 31st

    Things I'm tracking for August 24th through August 31st: Publishers Are Killing Web Advertising’s Potential With Misguided Pricing | paidContent - "The web has advantages in providing a platform for advertisers, but the notion that it is some sort of new animal entirely has grown out of a variety of misconceptions'" [...]
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    Fetched: August 31, 2009, 2:44pm EDT

  • Links for August 18th through August 23rd

    Things I'm tracking for August 18th through August 23rd: A Manifesto for Slow Communication - WSJ.com - "The ultimate form of progress, however, is learning to decide what is working and what is not; and working at this pace, emailing at this frantic rate, is pleasing very few of us. It'" [...]
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    Fetched: August 23, 2009, 11:42pm EDT

  • Links for August 11th through August 18th

    Things I'm tracking for August 11th through August 18th: Digital Advertising: A Display Ad That's Not a Banner Ad - Advertising Age - Digital - I'm the Intersection of Four Statements - A bit heady at first, but Joseph gets to the good part at the end and the whole thing [...]
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    Fetched: August 18, 2009, 12:43pm EDT

  • On the Pleasures of Re-Reading vs. Blogging

    On a recent road-trip with my eight-year-old daughter, H, we visited with a favorite former student of mine, Y, who is now a high-test corporate attorney. We met at the Emeryville Barnes & Noble and as we wandered, picking up fresh books for H, Y mentioned that she never re-reads [...]
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    Fetched: August 12, 2009, 11:43am EDT

  • Links for July 27th through August 10th

    Things I'm tracking for July 27th through August 10th: Local Media in a Postmodern World, Part XCVII, The Order of the Web - The Web disrupts many things, but its biggest cultural influence is that it disrupts hierarchical order. It does so by turning order on its head, for individuals have' [...]
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    Fetched: August 10, 2009, 3:43pm EDT

  • Links for July 23rd through July 26th

    Things I'm tracking for July 23rd through July 26th: Disney Takes Web Surfers to the Lab to See Which Ads Work - NYTimes.com - A Hollywood Blogger Feared by Executives - NYTimes.com - Monetize The Audience, Not The Content - "I like the subscription model the FT has been using for'" [...]
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    Fetched: July 27, 2009, 2:43am EDT

  • Links for July 15th through July 21st

    Things I'm tracking for July 15th through July 21st: Big Pharma Dives Into Digital | Digital Media Buzz - This Blog Sits at the: Robert Lutz and marketing malpractice - Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records - Steve Wax of Campfire shared this... amusing and scary. ' [...]
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    Fetched: July 23, 2009, 2:42am EDT

  • 15 Books

    [Cross-posted from Facebook because ultimately I realized that there was nothing TOO personal here... with the possible exception of #5...] I saw my old friend Debbie Ginsberg get tagged with this and read her list with fascination. Coincidentally, I'd been thinking along these lines just last night when I found myself' [...]
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    Fetched: July 23, 2009, 2:42am EDT

  • The Problem with Micropayments, and an Alternative

    Many years ago I lived in Ireland for my junior college year and stayed in a dorm where they kept the rooms crisp. I could stick a 25 pence coin into a little toaster in my room that would blast out five minutes of heat. When I was under my [...]
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    Fetched: July 15, 2009, 11:43am EDT

  • Links for July 9th through July 14th

    Things I'm tracking for July 9th through July 14th: YouTube - TAT augmented ID - The Great GRP Debate - eMarketer - Evian Roller Babies: Viral Video or Good TV Commercial? - Very sharp observation from Chas: "When I last checked, the above Evian video had been viewed over 5.5 million'" [...]
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    Fetched: July 15, 2009, 5:43am EDT

  • Links for June 30th through July 9th

    Things I'm tracking for June 30th through July 9th: www.ramseymohsen.com - Ramsey Mohsen; web consultant, DJ, video blogger, lifecaster & internet addict. » “Ambient Intimacy” a term you need to know. - More on ambient intimacy... this one linked by @gregverdino. disambiguity » Ambient Intimacy - A new term is floating about:' [...]
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    Fetched: July 09, 2009, 2:38pm EDT

  • Links for June 22nd through June 27th

    Things I'm tracking for June 22nd through June 27th: Web Privacy Efforts Targeted - WSJ.com - Forbes Insights: The Rise of the Digital C-Suite - Adam Kmiec of www.thekmiecs.com brought this report to my attention via Twitter. Here's what he has to say: "Forbes and Google got together to conduct a study'" [...]
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    Fetched: June 29, 2009, 11:38am EDT

  • Links for June 17th through June 18th

    Things I'm tracking for June 17th through June 18th: Crowdsourcing: What It Means for Innovation - BusinessWeek - "So which is it? Does crowdsourcing represent the beginning of the end of creative organizations? Or does it herald the beginning of something bigger and transformational for those agencies—and for business in general?" Let’s' [...]
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    Fetched: June 19, 2009, 8:40am EDT

  • Links for June 13th through June 15th

    Things I'm tracking for June 13th through June 15th: The Entertainment Industry Plays a Sour Note Online - eMarketer - Search Won’t Solve TV’s Content Discovery Problem | Simulmedia - Microeconomics of the Consumer Web - Chris Anderson’s Counterintuitive Rules For Charging For Media Online - The Benefits of Distraction and Overstimulation --' [...]
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    Fetched: June 15, 2009, 5:43pm EDT

  • Links for June 2nd through June 12th

    Things I'm tracking for June 2nd through June 12th: Dell Does $3 Million In Sales Through Twitter - Hardware - IT Channel News by CRN - On Demand Quarterly - June 2009.pdf (application/pdf Object) - Yes I Can - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com - Fascinating analysis by Stanley Fish about' [...]
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    Fetched: June 12, 2009, 8:43pm EDT

  • Links for May 25th through June 2nd

    Things I'm tracking for May 25th through June 2nd: Microsoft Outlines New Strategy for Xbox - NYTimes.com - LOS ANGELES — Reaching out beyond hardcore video game players to everyday consumers, Microsoft outlined an entertainment strategy on Monday for making the company’s Xbox 360 game console a gateway for movies, television' [...]
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    Fetched: June 02, 2009, 2:42pm EDT

  • Links for May 22nd through May 25th

    Things I'm tracking for May 22nd through May 25th: Unboxed - Who Says Innovation Belongs to the Small? - NYTimes.com - The Future of Artificial Intelligence - NYTimes.com - Scene Stealer - Does It Pay for Studios to Bring in Marketing Help? - NYTimes.com - Startups rising from ashes of recession' [...]
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    Fetched: May 25, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

  • Links for May 15th through May 21st

    Things I'm tracking for May 15th through May 21st: Fall TV cheat sheet: What's in? What's out? | | Ausiello Files | EW.com - Collected Essays and Writings by Jeremy Bullmore - WPP - 'Youth Magnet' Cities Hit Midlife Crisis - WSJ.com - Annals of Innovation: How David Beats Goliath: Reporting' [...]
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    Fetched: May 21, 2009, 11:43am EDT

  • Links for May 12th through May 15th

    Things I'm tracking for May 12th through May 15th: Reinventing the Magazine - WSJ.com - Meanwhile, in Brussels, Our Hero Fights a Comic-Book Crisis - WSJ.com - Google Rolls Out New Digital Tools - Forbes.com - This looks interesting... Pew Internet & American Life Project | Data Sets - Homaro Cantu's Weird' [...]
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    Fetched: May 15, 2009, 5:43pm EDT

  • Links for May 8th through May 12th

    Things I'm tracking for May 8th through May 12th: @ Searchology: Google Tinkers With Search Results Page | paidContent.org - Lessons of Internet Marketing From FreshDirect - WSJ.com - "I believe real Internet marketing is still in its infancy. Too much attention has been given to digital advertising, and not enough'" [...]
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    Fetched: May 13, 2009, 5:38am EDT

  • Links for May 7th

    Things I'm tracking for May 7th: Schwarzenegger Urges a Study on Legalizing Marijuana Use - NYTimes.com - Wow. How CNN Can Beat Back Fox and MSNBC - BusinessWeek - Nice piece by Mr. Fine. Google's Quiet Re-org (GOOG) - Twitter Search To Become Real Search - Amazon's Kindle has a big job: saving' [...]
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    Fetched: May 09, 2009, 5:38am EDT

  • Links for May 5th through May 7th

    Things I'm tracking for May 5th through May 7th: Hespos.com » Blog Archive » eBay Needs To Get Into The Shipping Business - Insightful post by Tom... is it surprising that he owns a camper? YouTube - Disney templates fail! - Holy Macaroni! Jim Nichols (http://www.oldestliving.com) found this on YouTube and posted' [...]
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    Fetched: May 07, 2009, 11:40am EDT

  • Links for May 4th through May 5th

    Things I'm tracking for May 4th through May 5th: Decline in Ad Spending Quickens Pace at 9.2% - WSJ.com - "In a sign that marketers have begun to deepen their cutbacks, TNS Media Intelligence, an ad-tracking firm owned by WPP PLC, reported Monday that ad spending in the fourth quarter fell'" [...]
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    Fetched: May 07, 2009, 11:40am EDT

  • Do All Business Strategy Books Suck? (#5) Guest Post by Northwestern’s Don E. Schultz

    The story so far (skip this paragraph if you already know): Last week, Brian Reich threw down a challenge about all business strategy books sucking, to which I replied, set up the Twitter hashtag #bizstratbooks, and additionally asked a few friends who read everything to comment. The first respondent was [...]
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    Fetched: May 07, 2009, 11:40am EDT

  • Terrific paragraph on playdates from Dooce…

    Not fall on the floor funny, but funny... "It's been a few months since Leta's had a play date, and we sort of forgot how that one extra little body can increase the blast radius of destruction by about a thousand percent. Afterwards there were toys sitting in the middle of" [...]
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    Fetched: May 05, 2009, 8:41am EDT

  • Links for May 4th

    Things I'm tracking for May 4th: Shorter URLs May Offer Tracking Benefits to Marketers - NYTimes.com - URL shorteners The Media Equation - Newspapers Have Essential Strengths - NYTimes.com - DeNiro Saturday Night Live Terrorists Video -- MySpace Video - This is hysterical... and how is it possible that it ISN'T on [...]
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    Fetched: May 05, 2009, 8:41am EDT

  • Do All Business Strategy Books Suck? (#4) Guest Post by Catalyst:SF’s John Durham

    The story so far (skip this paragraph if you already know): Last week, Brian Reich threw down a challenge about all business strategy books sucking, to which I replied, set up the Twitter hashtag #bizstratbooks, and additionally asked a few friends who read everything to comment. The first respondent was [...]
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    Fetched: May 05, 2009, 8:41am EDT

  • Links for May 1st through May 4th

    Things I'm tracking for May 1st through May 4th: AdFreak: Comment wars are ugly, but they can be fun - Brian's commentary on the MediaBistro digital agency comment smackdown. Op Ed: Digital Done Right and Three Companies That Seem to Get It (Part 1) - mediabistro.com: AgencySpy - Cue the sound of' [...]
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    Fetched: May 05, 2009, 8:41am EDT

  • Business Strategy Books Cont’d: Guest Post by Upstream’s Doug Weaver

    The story so far (skip this paragraph if you already know): Last week, Brian Reich threw down a challenge about all business strategy books sucking, to which I replied, set up the Twitter hashtag #bizstratbooks, and additionally asked a few friends who read everything to comment. The first respondent was [...]
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    Fetched: May 05, 2009, 8:41am EDT

  • Short Post on Ad Juxtaposition: Jack Kemp Obit with Facebook, BlackBerry

    News of former GOP stalwart Jack Kemp's passing after a long bout with cancer hit yesterday, and this morning I clicked a link to an article about this on Time.com and found a banner ad for the new Facebook application on BlackBerry taking up the prominent 3 o'clock position. I took' [...]
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    Fetched: May 04, 2009, 5:39am EDT

  • Business Strategy Books Cont’d: Guest Post by Accuquote’s Sean Cheyney

    Yesterday, I replied to a post by Brian Reich about whether or not there are any good business strategy books out there (you can follow this on the Twitter hashtag #bizstratbooks), and asked a number of individuals to respond. One of them is Sean Cheyney, Accuquote's VP of Marketing and [...]
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    Fetched: May 02, 2009, 8:38am EDT

  • Links for April 30th

    Things I'm tracking for April 30th: The dark side of Twitter - iMediaConnection.com - "The increasing facility available for individuals to participate in media (e.g. blogging, tweeting, uploading videos of their cats) is not having an experience. It is at best a surrogate for experiences, but it provides the illusion of'" [...]
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    Fetched: April 30, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

  • Links for April 30th

    Things I'm tracking for April 30th: Online Video: Why We Advertisers Have It All Wrong - Advertising Age - DigitalNext - Ross Levinsohn: Hollywood, as you know it, is dead | Webware - CNET - Interesting notes from Ross Levinsohn. MediaPost Publications Display Ad CPMs Won't Recover 04/30/2009 - Terrific piece by [...]
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    Fetched: April 30, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

  • Do All Business Strategy Books Suck?

    Earlier today, my friend Brian Reich unleashed a Twitter stream (later gathered into this blog post) in which he argued that all business strategy books are useless and asked the online universe to change his mind. For the inveterate readers out there, the gauntlet has been thrown down! John Durham, Don [...]
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    Fetched: April 30, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

  • Links for April 30th

    Things I'm tracking for April 30th: Village Roadshow falls short on funds - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety - The whole model for big budget movies is threatened... Using Social Applications In Ad Campaigns by Sean Corcoran - Forrester Research - I need to find a copy of this one... Cute' [...]
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    Fetched: April 30, 2009, 2:41pm EDT

  • Links for April 16th through April 29th

    Things I'm tracking for April 16th through April 29th: Cooliris | Discover More - This is a VERY cool Firefox extension. Mark Silva of Real Branding first showed it to me, and the latest update ROCKS. Tim Armstrong Looks to Simplify AOL's Brand Clutter - Agency News - Advertising Age - U.S. Opens' [...]
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    Fetched: April 30, 2009, 2:41pm EDT

  • “Flash Rebirth” #1: Just what the heck is going on?

    A lot of folks know that I've been a comic book reader since I was five years old, so if you're not remotely interested in comics then stop reading this short post and click to some other shiny object on the web. Background: Last week saw the return of a version [...]
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    Fetched: April 06, 2009, 2:15pm EDT

  • The Decline of Passive Knowledge

    I enjoy the podcast This Week in Media (or TWIM, which sounds somehow R-rated), hosted by Daisy Whitney. One particular comment in the latest episode (I think it was by Alex Lindsay of Pixel Corps) provoked my interest. Alex mentioned that he and his wife do not watch broadcast television, preferring [...]
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    Fetched: April 02, 2009, 12:44pm EDT

  • Links for March 15th through March 17th

    Things I'm tracking for March 15th through March 17th: The Story » Blog Archive » Innovation is retrospective - Dilbert comic strip for 03/16/2009 from the official Dilbert comic strips archive. - The funny this is that I've actually had a boss like this... 'Gossip Girl' creator helms web series - Entertainment News, [...]
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    Fetched: March 18, 2009, 3:20pm EDT

  • Local matters: is an impulse worth $10?

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Yesterday, wandering through CD Trader here in the San Fernando Valley, I spotted an unpriced copy of the first season of Veronica Mars, of which I'd only seen half. I took it to the front desk and learned the price was $29.99.  "It's a used'" [...]
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    Fetched: March 16, 2009, 10:22am EDT

  • Links for March 13th through March 15th

    Things I'm tracking for March 13th through March 15th: TV promos pay off for Hulu - Entertainment News, Technology News, Media - Variety - Good piece by Cynthia Littleton on Hulu's rocket growth after the Alec Baldwin Super Bowl ad last month. A.I.G. Planning $100 Million in Bonuses After Huge Bailout -' [...]
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    Fetched: March 15, 2009, 10:45am EDT

  • Links for March 12th

    Things I'm tracking for March 12th: Beth Israel workers agree to go without to save jobs - The Boston Globe - The Digital Divisions Are Dead At Big Media - State of the Art - Unify the Phone Numbers and All Else Follows - NYTimes.com - Excellent review by David Pogue. Google' [...]
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    Fetched: March 12, 2009, 11:23pm EDT

  • The evolution of a tweet: or, Twitter as online writing coach

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia blogs.] If you can master the haiku-like compression of Twitter's 140 character limit (I'm followable at http://www.twitter.com/bradberens), and if you can then carry that powerful, high-information density compression forward into the rest of your online writing, then you're almost halfway to mastering the most important genre of [...]
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    Fetched: March 12, 2009, 10:19am EDT

  • Links for March 9th through March 11th

    Things I'm tracking for March 9th through March 11th: Shouts & Murmurs: Memo from the C.E.O.: Humor: The New Yorker - HYSTERICAL... although in an OUCH! sort of way... Google to Offer Ads Based on Interests - NYTimes.com - Google is hardly the first to do this (BlueKai, anyone?), but it's a' [...]
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    Fetched: March 11, 2009, 6:21pm EDT

  • Breakthrough keynoter Nolan Bushnell interviewed on Dishymix!

    I'm delighted to share with you that my friend Susan Bratton just posted her interview with Breakthrough keynote speaker Nolan Bushnell (the visionary behind Atari, Chuck E. Cheese, uWink and others businesses) on her Dishymix site. The interview is entitled "20 Start Ups Later, on Chemical Engines, Existentialism and 'My" [...]
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    Fetched: March 10, 2009, 5:48pm EDT

  • Links for March 4th through March 5th

    Things I'm tracking for March 4th through March 5th: Basics - The Quest for the Nearly Empty In-Box - NYTimes.com - How to Keep Innovating - BusinessWeek - Presentation Zen: TED talk: Twitter & the power of the unexpected - CrapHammer: The Future of Publics - CrapHammer: It's time for brands' [...]
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    Fetched: March 05, 2009, 12:21pm EST

  • Links for March 1st through March 3rd

    Things I'm tracking for March 1st through March 3rd: Snuggie Pub Crawls Take The Blanket With Sleeves And Make It Social - iMedia Connection Blog - 25 Things I Hate About Facebook! « JulianSmith.tv | New Videos Every Friday! - This video is quite funny, brilliant and dead-on satire: sort of' [...]
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    Fetched: March 03, 2009, 11:23am EST

  • Links for February 27th through February 28th

    Things I'm tracking for February 27th through February 28th: A national healthcare reform primer - Los Angeles Times - Useful. The Mounting Price of Health Care’s Status Quo - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com - The size of social networks | Primates on Facebook | The Economist - PhD Comics: The Origin ...' [...]
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    Fetched: February 28, 2009, 12:54pm EST

  • Links for February 20th through February 25th

    Things I'm tracking for February 20th through February 25th: PhD comics on turning an academic CV into a business resume... - Really funny in an OUCH sort of way. How to Present While People are Twittering | Pistachio - Media Relations: Digital Exhaustion: My Scary New Diagnosis - A must read... I' [...]
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    Fetched: February 25, 2009, 11:21am EST

  • Tough Luck, NYPost.com… & Revisiting “Bush or Chimp”

    Are advertisers and readers online and off zooming away from The New York Post and www.nypost.com because of the kerfluffle over an editorial cartoon that stupidly (in so many ways) compared President Obama to a chimpanzee? Certainly, that's the worry: after the Reverend Al Sharpton -- smelling blood and never able [...]
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    Fetched: February 25, 2009, 9:51am EST

  • Links for February 19th

    Things I'm tracking for February 19th: Rivals High - Amid the grieving, a rare act of sportsmanship - Wow. Future Shock for Internet Ads? - WSJ.com - Local Web-Ad Market Cools Down - WSJ.com - WPP Units Vie for Internet Turf - WSJ.com - MediaPost Publications Marketing Plans Take a Beating 02/19/2009' [...]
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    Fetched: February 20, 2009, 12:48am EST

  • Short/Zen Post: The beautiful work of Ron Mueck

    We're all stressed out and working too hard to go to a museum, so let the museum come to you. Here's how. First, if you're a Firefox user, download and install the Cool Iris plugin that can turn your browser into a never-ending wall of images (Thank You, Mark Silva, for [...]
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    Fetched: February 18, 2009, 7:17pm EST

  • Links for February 17th

    Things I'm tracking for February 17th: Obama Signs Stimulus Into Law - WSJ.com - "Backers predict the package will save or create 3.5 million jobs. About $282 billion is devoted to tax cuts, including breaks for individuals and businesses. The spending includes, among other things, expanded unemployment benefits, food stamps, health'" [...]
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    Fetched: February 17, 2009, 10:50pm EST

  • Uh-oh: “Add-Art” Firefox plugin doesn’t add art but effortlessly removes ads

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] A Facebook friend who consults in th industry (translation, he really ought to know better) just crowed about adding "Add-Art," a free Firefox plugin that purports to replace display advertisements on major online publishers with images of contemporary art. Curious, I downloaded and installed the plugin, [...]
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    Fetched: February 17, 2009, 7:52pm EST

  • Links for February 16th

    Things I'm tracking for February 16th: The Economics of Giving It Away - WSJ.com - Save the News, Not the Newspaper - How to Save Your Newspaper - TIME - Significant piece by Walter Isaacson: "These approaches, however, still make a publication completely beholden to its advertisers. So I am hoping'" [...]
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    Fetched: February 17, 2009, 2:44am EST

  • Child Endangerment Porn, or, my problems with “Slumdog” and “Dollhouse”

    A friend with a good track record of Oscar predictions thinks "Slumdog Millionaire" will win best picture, best director and best screenplay. My wife and I left the theater an hour into the movie. We walked out at the moment (mild spoiler alert) when the Fagin-like beggar king and his cronies [...]
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    Fetched: February 16, 2009, 11:52am EST

  • Links for February 12th through February 14th

    Things I'm tracking for February 12th through February 14th: MY BLACK VALENTINE - A friend linked to this on FB-- hysterical. TV turning to alcohol, sex to fill empty time - Los Angeles Times - TV is newly embracing booze ads and ads for things sexual-- I understand that Detroit is taking' [...]
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    Fetched: February 14, 2009, 1:47pm EST

  • Twitter explodes into marketing, conferences and everything else

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Between December's iMedia Agency Summit and this week's iMedia Brand Summit a curious thing happened: Twitter use among our attendees grew by orders of magnitude. If you search "iMediaAgency" at search.twitter.com you'll see around four and a half pages of tweets from December. For this week's [...]
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    Fetched: February 13, 2009, 5:51pm EST

  • Links for February 7th through February 9th

    Things I'm tracking for February 7th through February 9th: Official Google Blog: Eye-tracking studies: more than meets the eye - WWGD? - The PowerPoint - A handy PowerPoint summary of Jeff Jarvis' new book, "What Would Google Do?" It's a nifty exercise in truth-in-advertising as it adeptly adumbrates his argument and, [...]
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    Fetched: February 10, 2009, 12:48am EST

  • Links for February 5th through February 6th

    Things I'm tracking for February 5th through February 6th: Fox deals Hallmark cards - Entertainment News, Exclusives, Media - Variety - Rogers: TV ad biz faces meltdown - Entertainment News, TV News, Media - Variety - Contentinople - Steve Donohue - Bewkes: Warner to Push Day & Date Releases - WB' [...]
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    Fetched: February 06, 2009, 6:06pm EST

  • Links for February 4th

    Things I'm tracking for February 4th: Official Google Blog: See where your friends are with Google Latitude - Printing The NYT Costs Twice As Much As Sending Every Subscriber A Free Kindle - The End of Solitude - ChronicleReview.com - Brilliant piece. Here's one key passage: "Loneliness is not the absence'" [...]
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    Fetched: February 04, 2009, 11:46pm EST

  • Links for January 29th through February 4th

    Things I'm tracking for January 29th through February 4th: Amazon Expands Into Casual Videogames - WSJ.com - Brian Morrissey: Banners in crisis - Awesome post by Brian... The importance of writing micro-content online. - Useful tips from Nick Usborne... Angels Flee From Tech Start-Ups - NYTimes.com - SALT | Trends in Branding -' [...]
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    Fetched: February 04, 2009, 12:51pm EST

  • 3 Keys to a Good Conference Panel

    [Cross posted with the iMedia Connection blog.] I produce, attend, speak at and moderate panels at conferences many times each year, and while nothing is quite as bad as a horrible keynote address, time and again panel discussions prove the most challenging, bouncing-on-the-high-wire-without-a-net piece of each day. Here are 3 things that [...]
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    Fetched: January 29, 2009, 9:49am EST

  • Links for January 27th through January 28th

    Things I'm tracking for January 27th through January 28th: 01_bradberens.mov (video/quicktime Object) - and the podcast version of the TechEvent2008 keynote... 6 Questions About The Digital Revolution (and maybe some answers) - Video from my keynote address at last November's TechEvent2008 in Mexico City just came online! Jack Myers - JackMyersThinkTank.com - The' [...]
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    Fetched: January 28, 2009, 8:15pm EST

  • Links for January 25th through January 26th

    Things I'm tracking for January 25th through January 26th: www.mcstrat.com - Marketing and Media in 2009 - Technology Review: The Future of Business Technology - Web-connected TVs expanding entertainment offerings - Yahoo! News - Revolution, Facebook-Style - Can Social Networking Turn Young Egyptians Into a Force for Democratic Change? - NYTimes.com' [...]
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    Fetched: January 26, 2009, 2:19pm EST

  • Links for January 22nd through January 24th

    Things I'm tracking for January 22nd through January 24th: Streaming: Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs - MarketingProfs Conferences: Digital Marketing World Spring 2009
    Free Virtual Conference - Wii Are Family - Delightful post about first stepping into Wii culture by MarketingProfs Ann Handley. Global Internet Audience Surpasses 1' [...]
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    Fetched: January 24, 2009, 10:18pm EST

  • Target the reptile brain with data, the mammal brain with art

    Two pieces that I read early this morning collided in my head: first, I enjoyed Russell Scott's whimsical but insightful article on advertising jingles (today's cover story at iMedia Connection), and then I read Brian Morrisey's blog post about a 212 event that he moderated last night where Canoe CEO' [...]
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    Fetched: January 22, 2009, 9:49am EST

  • Links for January 21st through January 22nd

    Things I'm tracking for January 21st through January 22nd: Pandora and the iPhone... "Drive Time For Mobile Web Radio?" - This post recommended to me by Ty Braswell... very interesting. YouTube Blog - Is that a revenue model I see? The Last Professor - Stanley Fish Blog - NYTimes.com - Brandthroposophy » Blog' [...]
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    Fetched: January 22, 2009, 8:18am EST

  • Links for January 21st

    Things I'm tracking for January 21st: Studios proceed cautiously for 2010 - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety - The times they are a changing. Ripple6 Blog » Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned (Part 1) - ‘Veronica Mars’ Movie Now In Motion - I adored Veronica Mars, but I can't really [...]
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    Fetched: January 21, 2009, 10:20am EST

  • Links for January 19th through January 21st

    Things I'm tracking for January 19th through January 21st: News of the Week: Online Down, Search Up - John Battelle's Searchblog - Marketers Take Search Ads Beyond Search Engines - WSJ.com - GM, Ford Make Every Ad Penny Count, Audi Plans to Up Spend - Advertising Age - News - Boxee, [...]
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    Fetched: January 21, 2009, 9:10am EST

  • Links for January 19th

    Things I'm tracking for January 19th: A Designer Takes on His Biggest Challenge Ever | Fast Company - Oldest Living Digital Marketer* Tells All: Digital Marketing Factoid of the Day: Phone Luddites - Sephora Helps Selection Process With Mobile User Reviews - Advertising Age - Digital - Maximizing the ROI on [...]
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    Fetched: January 20, 2009, 12:47am EST

  • Short Post: Amusing Dilbert branded entertainment

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] This morning's Dilbert contains an amusing embedded advertisement: Click here to see the comments on Dilbert.com, the most trenchant of which by username HaroldSaxon is, "What an effective way to have newspapers across the county pay for an advertisement!" Dutifully, I checked www.dilbertfiles.com and discovered its a [...]
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    Fetched: January 19, 2009, 9:48am EST

  • Links for January 15th

    Things I'm tracking for January 15th: Letter from California: The Cobra: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - Upgrades: Tivo Guilt and Eventness, and CNN making news in the blogosphere - nice comment on my TiVo guilt stuff... How I Look at Resumes | Redfin Corporate Blog - Drinking coffee reduces risk [...]
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    Fetched: January 16, 2009, 2:17am EST

  • Zipless grocery shopping and the impact on a brand

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] Acute guilt stabbed into me -- twice! -- during a late-night jaunt to my local Ralphs, and the funny thing is that I wound up blaming Ralphs for my own actions. Is this is a story about a brand hurting itself or one about my [...]
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    Fetched: January 15, 2009, 9:49am EST

  • Links for January 13th through January 14th

    Things I'm tracking for January 13th through January 14th: Study: Web Ad Prices Fall, Lowering Site Revenue - AppScout - 'Gossip Girl' spinoff moving forward - Living in HD - Alessandra Stanley Talks to Gossip Girl's Blake Lively About America's Favorite Fiction - The most engaging thing about Blake Lively of [...]
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    Fetched: January 15, 2009, 2:18am EST

  • Links for January 8th through January 9th

    Things I'm tracking for January 8th through January 9th: Hearst Looks to Sell Seattle Daily - WSJ.com - Another one nibbles the dust... New Winnie-the-Pooh Book Due in October - WSJ.com - Even Winnie the Pooh is getting milked for untapped brand value. Sheesh. Leaving Literature Behind - ChronicleReview.com - This nicely encapsulates [...]
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    Fetched: January 09, 2009, 9:15pm EST

  • Links for January 6th through January 7th

    Things I'm tracking for January 6th through January 7th: Speakers Mom 2.0 Summit - A Web 2.0 Conference for Moms and Marketers in Houston, TX on Feb 19-21st, 2009 - Michelle Singletary - It's Time to Drop The Consumer Label - washingtonpost.com - I'm against the word "consumer" as well. WPP takes [...]
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    Fetched: January 07, 2009, 11:15pm EST

  • Toilets and the Marketing vs. Serenity Smackdown

    [Cross-posted with the iMedia Connection blogs.] I have a lot of breakfast and coffee meeting with smart people to chat about their companies, and one of the fascinating benefits of my job is that I sometimes get a look-see into a company pre-launch. Recently, I met with a friend about a [...]
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    Fetched: January 07, 2009, 12:19pm EST
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