Chicago Sun Times: Some Sears salespeople may now dress in any color they want -- as long they wear Sears clothes. Salespeople in apparel, jewelry and accessories departments can tear off those dull black or white pullovers and black or tan pants -- which they could get from any store -- and replace them with colorful Sears duds, starting today, according to an internal memo. Men may pick their colorful clothes from …
Sticky Eyeballs Are So 1995
Business 2.0: Google co-founder Sergey Brin made a surprise appearance yesterday at the tail-end of the Web 2.0 conference, and had a few choice words for all the previous guests who had engaged in Google-bashing. "We fundamentally believe in sending people to other Websites. We believe in giving people access to content, not producing it. If you search for a stock symbol on Google, the top site that comes up is …
Andie’s Hair On Red Alert
Tim Nudd at Adfreak picked up on Irish singer Sinéad O’Connor's disgruntlement over L’Oréal's big hair adverts. Sinead particularly disdains the ads for L’Oréal' featuring American actress, Andie MacDowell. "I absolutely hate those hair commercials she's done. They drive me crazy. She looks so prim and proper. "If I ever get the opportunity to meet her, I'm going to shave all her hair off." …
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Rethinking Newspaper Delivery
David Carr writing in The New York Times considers a futuristic newspaper reading device. What the newspaper industry really needs is an iPod moment. Consider if the line between the Web and print matter were erased by a device for data consumption, not data entry - all screen, no baggage - that was uplinked and updated constantly: a digital player for the eyes, with an iTunes-like array of content available at a …
Paul MacFarlane – Professional Human Being. Or Professional Pariah?
Paul MacFarlane is the founder of The 10/05 Experiment in St. Louis, and has spent years challenging the conventions and practices of the ad industry. Which is not an easy path to walk down. But that doesn't begin to describe Paul. His online diary will give you some insight into his thoughts. In the first of a three-part podcast from St. Louis' Act3i called "Designing the Story," you can hear Paul talk about his …
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Add “Blook” To The Lexicon
Blook (bluk), n. A printed and bound book, based on a blog (cf. web log) or web site; a new stage in the life-cycle of content, if not a new category of content and a new dawn for the book itself. Not only do blooks already exist, there's a new competition to judge their merit, the Lulu Blooker Prize. The Blooker will be awarded in three categories—fiction, nonfiction and comics. $4000 in prize money is available to …
How Peer-To-Peer Pays
Inbound links are commonly used to rank blogs by services like Technorati. The more inbound links a blog has the more status it enjoys in this ranking system. Clearly, it's but one key factor, but this simple model has become a leading indicator for the bloatosphere at this early juncture. One blogger, Tristan Louis, compiled Technorati's numbers for each individual Weblogs, Inc. blog. He determined that one incoming …