Yesterday, we drew your attention to Microsoft's ploy to influence the bloatosphere with fancy Ferrari laptops running Vista. According to one recipient, Marshall Kirkpatrick, Microsoft's PR flacks want the machines back or to be given away. Here's the email Marshall received from Aaron at Edelman: Marshall, No good deed goes unpunished, right? You may have seen that other bloggers got review machines as well. Some …
Doing Wieden’s Work For Them
30gms, the design blog from London design practice Fibre, looks at the work of Insa, a London graffiti artist. …
The NYT’s Ad Crystal Ball Is A Bit Cloudy
Writing in The New York Times, Louise Story takes a stab at what's ahead for advertising: Not surprisingly, many agencies are focusing on how the digital world will continue nudging the offline world in new directions, and consumer-generated content is in the forefront of everyone’s mind. But ad executives also say they think companies should pay attention to shoppers’ interest in knowing more about the products they …
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Pyramids Inverted
The Wall Street Journal chimes on the shifting dynamics underway in the agency world. Facing unprecedented upheaval in the advertising and media industries, big ad holding companies and their agency units are rethinking how they're organized. Under pressure from marketers, agencies are starting to restructure operations by aligning their creative sides with less glamorous parts of their businesses such as marketing …
Compose On A SideKick?
Marshall Sponder writing on Smart Mobs looks forward to the day when he can create content on the fly. I'm not alone in thinking the Ultra Mobile Computers will become the dominant device (and maybe have a phone built into it too) in a year or two. It's one thing to be able to read my Gmail and look at my Webmetricsguru.com blog stats from my TMobile SideKick 3, along with taking photos of my paintings and …
Dangling Ferraris
Long Zheng writes about the fancy new machine he and many other bloggers received from Edelman, the blogger-friendly PR giant working with Microsoft to help launch Windows Vista. Microsoft gave out some timely Christmas presents to a bunch of bloggers this year. Brandon LeBlanc got one, Scott Beale got one, Barb Bowman got one, Mauricio Freitas got one, Mitch Denny got one, Zen.Heavengames got one, plus many other …
Manhattan Movers Capture The Imagination Of Millions
According to The New York Times, art imitates life then life imitates art. Thanks reality television! Last week, Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue, agreed to allow A&E to film a documentary of the making of its September issue, usually the thickest of the year. Since the curtains were drawn open on the darker details of the genre in “The Devil Wears Prada” and “Ugly Betty,” both of which pattern characters on Ms. …
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Silk Pajama Wearers Taking It To The Bank
John Battelle is pleased with the progress his new firm, Federated Media, made in 2006. I won't gloat, but I will tell you all this: We beat my year's estimated revenues by nearly 30%, and this fall, we were booking well over a million a month in new business. By mid January or so we'll be announcing an amazing array of new sites joining FM, and I feel very confident that the model is viable. Perhaps FM won't be that …
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