Saturday Video Roundup: creating a stop sign
Happy Saturday. For those of you who don’t work in the world of marketing and advertising, this is so accurate it’s a little scary.
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TunesDay: what is, what was and what almost was – the S&R interview with Don Dixon
I’ve been a very big Don Dixon fan since the late ’70s, so when his new CD, The Nu-Look, dropped I was bouncing around the living room like Snoopy doing a happy dance. Sadly, a lot of people don’t know Don’s music – although many know his work as the producer of Murmur and Reckoning by REM and multiple records
Read moreThe smartest shopping cart that ever lived
MediaPost reports this morning on an interesting new survey from TNS, which says that “sixty percent of shoppers across the globe believe that they will be able to pay for purchases using just their fingerprint by 2015, rated top by 25% of shoppers.” Never mind the chill that should send down the spine of anyone who values their privacy –
Read moreThe truth about “straight talk”
Q: How can you tell when politicians are lying? A: When they say they aren’t. As we wade deeper into the silly swamp that is Electoral Trainwreck ’08 I realize that most nights I wind up giggling myself to sleep. My old friend Disraeli famously observed that people tend to get the government they deserve, and as I’ve noted before,
Read moreEven better than the real thing: mass media and manufactured beauty
Give me one last dance We’ll slide down the surface of things You’re the real thing Yeah the real thing You’re the real thing Even better than the real thing I figured out a long time ago, even before I began encountering grad-level feminist critiques, that our media’s stylized construction and portrayal of female beauty was problematic. It’s bad enough
Read moreCampaign mobile update: from bad to worse to what the heck?
A couple days ago I had some comments on Obama, Clinton and Edwards and their respective mobile marketing activities. Turns out I was wrong about a couple facts, but finding that out has now opened the door to some new questions and concerns. Here’s where we currently stand:
Read moreObama campaign [third] to launch mobile, [third] to screw it up
[UPDATE: turns out he’s not the first after all – see comments below for details.] I’ve been yarping for months that no political campaign had yet launched mobile. There’s this massive youth generation that’s setting records for political and community activity, the mobile phone is one of their favorite things in the world, and all these politicians and their high-priced
Read moreHillary picks her campaign song (insert snark here)
As noted a couple weeks ago, the Clinton campaign was soliciting our input on what her theme song should be. As a social media marketer I liked the concept and frankly some of the executions have been simply superb, like this vid. (Although, remarkably, I can’t find a copy of this video at YouTube. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?) But the songs
Read moreYou want reality TV? THIS is reality TV!
Whatever you think about reality TV, this would pretty much have cemented your opinion. If you, like me, appreicate how some reality shows illuminate our genuine moral trashiness, then by god, this would be the best you could hope for until FOX debuts Christians v Lions 2007: Payback Time for Kitty. If you’re appalled by that same trashiness, then this
Read moreOf customer service, desk jockeys and service rangers
Been doing some work on my biz blog this evening, and I might as well point those of you interested in subjects like customer service (as in, “why does customer service at every damned company I have to deal with suck so bad?”) to something I just posted. In essence, I’m just sick of people pretending that certain kinds of
Read morePimping a new biz blog
In addition to politics, media, music and poetry, I also write about … business (Gavin isn’t the only guy around here working for a living). For those of you care about such things, I’ve just launched a new blog around my consulting biz, Black Dog Strategic. It might be of particular interest to those who track online PR and marketing
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