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Why Advertising Sucks

I close my eyes and hear thunder - In the world of boxing, becoming a belt holder has quickly become immaterial to a certain degree. Sanctioning bodies have done their best to work against a s...
1 hour ago
FFFFOUND!

i am never w/out it, original collage on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - [image: i am never w/out it, original collage by prettyfnmess.] via http://www.flickr.com/photos/prettyfnmess/3177137317/
2 hours ago
MultiCultClassics

6921: Bill Clinton, Frat Boy. - *From FOX News…* Black Fraternity Inducts Bill Clinton as Honorary Member National fraternity Phi Beta Sigma welcomed Bill Clinton as an honorary member ...
3 hours ago
ECTOPLASMOSIS!

Saturday Morning Comics: Achewood - [image: uua9cmfjs.gif] While I understand my long absent editor’s disdain for the web-comic I do not share it. Yes, the internet is indeed littered with ...
5 hours ago
Valleywag

The New York Times Solves Sarah Jessica Parker's Park Slope Mystery, And The Answer Is "Google" - Speculation regarding Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick moving into ginormous Park Slope digs was wrong! Via some crack NYT investigative report...
5 hours ago
Lifehacker

This Week's Top Downloads [Download Roundup] - - WEP Cracking Redux: Beyond the Command Line (Windows/Mac/Linux) *Last week we showed you how to crack a Wi-Fi network's WEP key using a live C...
6 hours ago
NOTCOT

#23214 - The 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opens to... - The 2009 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion opens to public on Jul 12th at Hyde Park in London. The undulating aluminum structure designed by SANAA blends with th...
6 hours ago
brandflakesforbreakfast

this week at Plaid - Here's what happened this week at the world's most Plaidtastic creative agency: Final preparations are being made for the third annual Plaid tour, Plaid...
6 hours ago
russell davies

last lot - The Final 50 Interesting tickets will be on sale at 11am on Friday the 17th of July.
8 hours ago
ANIMAL New York

Police Play Capture the American Flag Against Iraq War Vet - In a shockingly egregious abuse of the First Amendment and probably some other laws, police in Wisconsin illegally trespassed onto a businessman’s property...
9 hours ago
Dlisted

Ryan Reynolds Is The Green Lantern - So sorry to Justin Timberlake, Jared Leto and Bradley Cooper, but the role of the Green Lantern has been snatched up Mr. Panty Creamer himself: Ryan Reyn...
9 hours ago
AdScam/The Horror!

GodJobs takes Squirrel Boy behind the woodshed! - With all the shit the pundits have been throwing out there about Google’s new operating system, Google Chrome OS, there’s been a lot of speculation whether o...
14 hours ago
BuzzMachine

Metadata for news - The Associated Press and the Media Standards Trust (never heard of them) have proposed a new standard for metadata for news. Depending on its use and inten...
17 hours ago
Movie Marketing Madness

Taking next week off - I’m deciding to take next week off from MMM. Need to recharge the batteries a bit and focus on other things that need focusing on. That includes work to-do...
17 hours ago
core77

Design in the wild: What a product designer takes on an 18-day walk - [image: JMT-overview.jpg] Products are interesting, but highly specialized products even more so. One of the reasons we get more excited about high-perfo...
23 hours ago
Where's My Jetpack?

Put Her in the Backseat and Drive Her To Tennessee - Just got back from Tennessee, where I wish I was still. I can't say I missed blogging for one minute. Here's a shot taken during what photographer Ross Hal...
1 day ago
reality blurred

Las Vegas-set Top Chef 6's cast is older - This week, Bravo revealed the cast of Top Chef 6, which I will care about eventually--especially since the new season debuts on my birthday--but right now ...
1 day ago
Thought Gadgets

Crowdsourcing Star Wars - Casey Pugh wants to refilm Star Wars (perhaps to prove it can be done better than the last three overwrought prequels). So he's crowdsourcing the effort, ...
1 day ago
AdPulp

Bono and Edge Leave Their iPhones at Home - Visit Blackberry.com/U2 for more info on the brand's integration with Ireland's most popular rock band. Agency: Arc Worldwide, Chicago Director: Alex Cour...
1 day ago
The Live Feed

Maura Tierney illness delays 'Parenthood' - By Nellie Andreeva NBC's new fall drama series "Parenthood" has been pushed to midseason because of an illness of one of the stars, Maura Tierney....
1 day ago
adfreak

After ad beef, BK apologizes yet again - One of the week's oddest marketing stories played out with Burger King predictably apologizing for posters showing the goddess Lakshmi.
1 day ago
Dumb as a Blog

Dumb Criminal of the Week -- Vote NOW! - With over two thousand votes in, Fake Cop Solicits Sex From Real Cop was the clear winner of last week's poll. Now check out this week's fresh hot messes and...
1 day ago
copyranter

Link Haze, 7/10/09. - • Kool-Aid Man is back. • The rosy-lipped batfish. • Mariah Carey's left hand. • Ye olde surgical instruments. • Next worldwide fashion trend: tiny hats. • ...
1 day ago
Annoying Design

Advertising’s New Mantra: ReDesign the Experience - “You cannot NOT have a user experience.” — Lou Carbone We experience the digital world as timely, relevant, useful, and personable. I can find out exactly ...
1 day ago
Unbound Edition

Rebuilding Corporate Reputations - As governments respond to the financial crisis and its reverberations in the real economy, a company’s reputation has begun to matter more now than it has ...
1 day ago
Adrants

Killed Ideas Announces People's Choice Award - [image: roots_church_website.jpg] So there were the ideas and then there was the book. Now there's the Killed Ideas People's Choice Award.
1 day ago
MarketingCharts

Face-to-Face Still Tops for Purchase Decisions - Neutral, informal communication on behalf of a preferred brand or vendor can have significant and far-reaching impact on purchase decisions, and in-person ...
1 day ago
a [mostly true] story

One Night Only - I will be appearing (read: drinking & singing) at Max’s Taphouse in Fell’s Point tonight. One night only. Totally worth missing. But Max’s Impressive Beer ...
1 day ago
Pop Candy

The Candy mailbag: Answering your questions - Let's all arrange our desks in a circle -- it's time for the mailbag! I'll be answering your questions for the next couple hours, then I have to go work on...
1 day ago
Buzz & Viral Marketing Agency ★★★Vanksen|Culture-buzz

A Shocking Billboard: Tears of Blood - In general, to decrease mortality on the road, sanctions prevail over prevention. Despite increasingly creative campaigns that capitalize on disaster scena...
1 day ago
frog design

Pints, Punts, and Presentations. What Would You Like to See in the Upcoming Special TEDGlobal Issue of design mind? - With the TEDGlobal conference right around the corner, the *design mind *editorial team is gearing up for plenty of fun in the sun….. er, wait, we’re goin...
1 day ago
Black Marks on Wood Pulp

Getting stuff done - To the right, it says I’m currently reading The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd. I’m not. That’s simply the book I’m planning on reading, when I finally start ...
1 day ago
Cockeyed.com

Updated: How to Make Kool-Aid Pasta Prank - Not long after trying to enhance pasta with a frothy head of soap bubbles, I had a much safer idea: Cherry Kool-Aid.
1 day ago
The Ad Contrarian

Friday Follies -
1 day ago
The Toad Stool

SXSW Extended Content Video Is Up - Last February, I was on a video panel for the SXSW Extended Content section (sort of a runner-up prize to getting an actual panel.) It's called (quel surp...
2 days ago
Thinking in vain...

Here You Go - 1... 2... 3... AWW!
2 days ago
American Copywriter

11 observations about Kim Jong-il's delusions of Auggie Busch. - Look, everyone else has already covered what some have reported as the "first television ad ever to run in North Korea." But, as you know, beer is one of o...
2 days ago
Live & Uncensored!

Semi-Profound* Gchat Status Messages. - And they say reading is dead. (*scoffs*) --- *This is probably not true at all, actually.
2 days ago
aNYthing glob

Keiichi”s Back Door Booty’s - [image: img_1216] [image: img_1111] [image: img_1218] [image: img_1223] [image: img_1224] [image: img_1109] [image: img_1226] [image: img_1231] [im...
3 days ago
ad broad

Mad Men and their 40 year war - George Lois' memory of Rita Selden writing the VW Lemon ad might not be so reliable after all. (How did I miss this?) Turns out Lois' former writer at DDB...
3 days ago
Blog Maverick

Success & Motivation – If(Cash In < Cash Out)= You are a Consultant - Business is a very simple concept. You have to pay your bills. If you have anything left over, you get to smile and spend it as the principals of your bu...
3 days ago
How to Change the World

Last Chance for Revenue Bootcamp and Facebook Providing $50 Advertising Coupon - We’re rapidly coming up on Revenue Bootcamp on Friday. The event is almost sold out. Click here to see the agenda. Facebook is providing a $50 coupon that ...
4 days ago
Renegade Agency Confessional

Out-of-Home Stigmata, Kiwi Style - I've never been to New Zealand, but based on my anthropological research - consisting mainly of HBO series, travel ads, and discussions with Australian peo...
4 days ago
Jaffe Juice

JJTV #25 - I want to have a conversation with you - This show sponsored by HP. You're invited to participate in HP's Employee Purchase Program (EPP) for friends 'n family discounts on the full portfolio of HP ...
5 days ago
Public School Intelligentsia

Nostalgia for the Mud: “Scarjo, darling, would you mind rolling your shoulders back so we can really see the yellow star pinned to your chest?” - Here’s a term that you should familiarize yourself with: “Nostalgie de la boue” means ascribing higher spiritual values to people and cultures considered “...
5 days ago
Hee-Haw Marketing

The Marriage of Advertising and Social Media - At some point we pit advertising and social media against each other when we should have been marrying those core advertising messages with meaningful social...
6 days ago
Another Limited Rebellion

After Life: a skull exhibition - Sorry for the lack of posting here, but after being in Austin for a week for the How Design Conference (which I'll post more about soon), I returned to put...
1 week ago
CMM News

There's real gold, and there's chav gold - Somebody's getting rich in this recession, and they probably look like this guy, smiling happily as a certain class of person flogs off the family gold. I ...
1 week ago
ideasonideas

Epitaph for a plastic man - The King of Pop is dead and a product of the media has ceased to be. From his debut with the Jackson 5 in 1969, to his moonwalk at Motown 25 and the later ...
2 weeks ago
The Curious Affairs Of Atherton Bartelby

May Flights Of Angels Sing Thee To Thy Rest - My mother bought me my first gun when I was five years old. She did not want to buy it for me, but I begged and pleaded until she did. It was a toy gun, a ...
2 weeks ago
Brands | Bands | Fans

Win Camp Bestival tickets - Fancy having a coastal picnic with PJ Harvey, Bon Iver, VV Brown, Florence and the Machine and Mercury Rev? How about throwing in a castle, fancy dress and...
4 weeks ago
Scamp

The Last Post - After 3 years and 707 posts, I've decided to discontinue Scamp. Reasons? Partly a desire to free myself from the daily commitment of having to enterta...
4 weeks ago
NotBillable

Oh that's what Prince wrote - A few hours after watching Jay Leno -- with guests Billy Crystal and Prince-- I turned on Red Eye and saw Billy Zoom. O the nostalgia! My head almost explod...
1 month ago
daily (ad) biz

facebook makes me crotchety - I did the Twitter thing for a little while, but found it clunky and un-portable…which may be an indictment of my own tech savvy, sure, but I also found tha...
1 month ago
Media Orchard

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-24 - From the Orchard: Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-04-17 http://tinyurl.com/c5xq8q # RT @RecipeGirl: @pbandjulie Amen Sistah! I get emails weekly offering m...
2 months ago
Adverganza

Lee Garfinkel strikes back, defends mustache - Woke up this morning thinking I should post some more thoughts in the Lee Garfinkel-gets-canned-for-Eric-Silver saga, because what struck me was how, when ...
4 months ago
The girl Riot

youtube, copyrights, & music sucking life. - my brother had mentioned to me that *YouTube was slowly taking down videos of copyrighted content*, and it was a discussion topic over dinner a ways back a...
5 months ago
laboratory101

CEOs in advertisements––the death knell. - You know times are tough when your company’s CEO starts doing the ads. Is it just me, or has this become the last line of defense against just calling it q...
8 months ago
yonder ponder

Late adopter - YEAH Twitterfeed! my Twitter subscribers now have an rss option. I think I adopt late and understand little.
1 year ago