June 2008
38 posts
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'Suits' on Joost.com →
A New York advertising company tries to keep their biggest account from jumping ship and taking their millions of dollars worth of hygiene products with them.\n\nA deodorant company with a product called “Smell No Mo,” pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come up with a campaign for a new-fangled sanitary napkin called Vorcan.
Jun 1st
May 2008
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May 30th
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Hand Drawn Map Association
This is map #11 Jersey City, New Jersey, USA From : Josef Reyes - 2008-03-03 Conveyer is a zine about Jersey City. Each issue includes a section where people are asked to draw a map of a part of the city that they find meaningful. Conveyer Magazine
May 26th
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Difficult is worth doing →
A really good example of getting it right. TV Ad —> blog —> …
May 26th
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"When was the last time you saw a person stop and...
The seamy side of semiotics By WILLIAM SAFIRE Published: May 25, 2008 The New York Times “Electronic communication has whisked us into a third phase of compression: the Age of Shortspeak. As we listen and watch replays of multicasts to suit our scheduling convenience, those above-mentioned interminable, bor-r-ing four-second pauses are edited out. Humanizing uh, er, ah, um moments of...
May 25th
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InBev Said to Be Prepping $46 Billion Bid for A-B →
Source: Advertising Age - News
May 24th
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May 24th
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This is what we like to see...
…an article bridging the gap between branding and beef. US Beef: Well Done Branding? by Randall Frost May 26, 2008 issue “The US beef industry has carefully constructed the domestic branding of its product, tying in history, culture, and the unique cowboy aesthetic of western America not only through packaging and conventional advertising, but by partnering up with Western stock...
May 24th
Facebook rival up in arms over website name ban -... →
May 24th
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May 22nd
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Brand UK and the case of the Brains drain
Written by Jonathan Gabay Eight weeks after the Terminal Five brand fiasco I paid a return visit to the multi million pound shed in Heathrow to see how things have improved. I was flying to Newcastle with BA. My sat-nav didn’t allow for T5 on the map and apart from two signs one mile from the airport, there were no actually clues as to where anything was. Running late I eventually uncovered...
May 21st
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May 20th
Can a Dead Brand Live Again? →
Source: Rebranding - River West Brands - Rob Walker - New York Times
May 20th
“Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani paid $29m in taxes last year; one of the...”
– www.askten.co.uk
May 19th
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Right now on Twitter...
May 18th
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May 17th
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“Resign. It’s the way to show you mean business.”
– Paul Arden
May 14th
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“Britons throw away 1.3 million unopened pots of yoghurt each day.”
– WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme)
May 12th
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“From a security perspective this means the following: Anyone who knows your...”
– Twitter and Jott Vulnerable to SMS and Caller ID Spoofing, by Nitesh Dhanjani in Technical
May 10th
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Jott.com - only available to US and Canadian...
“Jott converts your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments.” Really want to get involved, perhaps reducing my current need for a PA (cough! cough!…intern) Unfortunately, Jott is currently only available to US and Canadian subscribers. Jott.com/Blog
May 10th
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Looking forward to Tuesday's meetup...
When Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 7:30 PM Where Blue Posts 6 Bennett Street, London, SW1 “No limit on numbers for this lovely Green Park pub - usual - ideas swapping…” For more information see: Meetup.com/London Creative Entrepreneurs
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 7th
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May 6th
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Disqus, tell me what you think...
Tell me what you think… BB www.disqus.com Disqus, pronounced discuss, is a service for blog comments. Disqus enables bloggers to make the conversations on their blogs more interactive and manageable. Our distributed comment system connects readers across blog communities, while empowering publishers in promoting their content.
May 6th
Friends May Be the Best Guide Through the Noise -... →
Thanks Bear!
May 5th
BBC NEWS | Politics | Johnson wins London mayoral... →
Mr Johnson said he would work to earn the trust of those that had opposed him, or who had hesitated before voting for him.
May 2nd
“Results so far from the election count suggest Conservative candidate Boris...”
– BBC NEWS | Politics | Johnson ‘ahead’ in mayoral race
May 2nd
“I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he...”
– Boris Johnson
May 1st