Happy Birthday Logo Freaks.

This blog is now one year older, but is it wiser? Probably not, but I am. What started out as a way to vent the day-to-day bullshit morphed into some interesting connections that kept me from turning into Jack with an axe.

As evidenced by the blogroll here, I’ve discovered a wide range of blogs and even wider range of viewpoints. Allow me then, in no particular order, to give a shout out to all those I tend to ‘co-blogitate’ with on a regular basis...

Sometimes you come across a few podcaster American Copywriter-types that share the ad love. Others write so much gooder than you, you’d even read their instructions for changing a tire, such as Mark Fenske, and a guy named Ernie. Others like highjive and Hadji (who knocks the hustle) write about the race issues that nobody in the biz brings up, unless a lawsuit or congressional committee prompts it of course.

If you produce shit ads? Beware the copyranter. And if you produce a shit agency? George Parker will be there to keep you honest with two great locations to serve you better. Of course you have the big boys at adland adrag, adfreak, adpulp and adrants who provided a lot of material from which I riffed and spread viral love. And is there any other kind?

Yes.

The love of diverse PR issues by Andrea on her blog and Scott over at his Media Orchard, done with class. And if there’s a better definition of a Creative Director, someone needs to tell Mack Simpson about it, ’cuz I haven’t seen one.

Of course, after you help this blog take off and clear the treetops, you naturally turn to helping consumers, just like Ben did over at Consumerist.

Don’t forget tunes when you’re chillin’ at 3:00 am and the regular playlist won’t cut it. You wanna point the mouse to radio paradise, radio IO or xtc radio on iTunes. And when you’re up at that hour and trying to come up with some funky NY trolling, you turn to a New York thing of course.

Or when it’s 3:00 pm down under when it’s 3:00 am stateside, Rikki’s up if you want to give her your stuff. And speaking of places down under NJ, Fred’s a guy down south who, like me believes, “no freelance project too small, no invoice too large.”

And if I forget anyone, I’m sure I’ll hear about it. Otherwise, the new crop of recent peeps I’ve come across will be added to next year’s list and blogroll. So thanks for stopping by and as always, thanks for shopping Make the Logo Bigger.

Tags: advertising, brands, viral

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