The hippies are gettin' it done with mobile data. Andy at Gadiel: Just go to your cellphone's web browser and type into the location bar: M.jambase.com The M is for Mmmmm... mobile.jambase.com works too It will take you to a quick form which asks for your Zip Code and then prints out an easy to read list of concerts within 50 miles of your location for tonight. I'm a little unclear on that last bit about printing. …
Why Splurge On The Super Bowl When You Can Own The Day After?
Handmade Spam Is Still Spam
This week two notable communications organizations have used our comments as a dumping place for their handmade Spam. How thoughtful of them. Today's "perp" left nothing but a URL in our comments. Earlier in the week a staffer at a Midwestern agency used our comments to blatantly promote a project near and dear to him. In both cases the unwanted comments were deposited in threads that had nothing whatsoever to do …
Peroni Me
WXIA News 11: Free beer while shopping -- it’s a new idea brewing in Atlanta. While shoppers age 21-and-over browse $150 jeans at the stylish Bill Hallman Boutique in Virginia Highland, they can sip on a beer imported from Italy. The lure might sound like exactly what’s expected from an upscale, designer clothing store. The wealth of foot traffic already flowing through the Virginia Highland neighborhood is …
How To Be A Good Marketer In Ten Easy Steps
Drop out of Business School today. Tara Hunt of Horse Pig Cow can save you two years, and free you from your mounting debt. 1. A good marketer is a Community Advocate 2. A good marketer knows today's brands aren't built in boardrooms or ad agencies or brainstorming sessions 3. A good marketer plans a little, but changes alot 4. A good marketer doesn't only respond to community needs today, but also knows what needs …
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The Science Of Selling On Blogs
NYT: Seed Media, which produces science publications in print and online, is seeking to broaden its audience - and its appeal to advertisers - by introducing a network of blogs, or Web journals, devoted to science and science-related subjects. The network is to be made available on a Web site, scienceblogs.com, that is now operating in beta, or test, mode. The Web site will initially bring together 15 blogs bearing …
Post Shuts Indecent Dissent Off Like A Faucet (There Are Filters For That)
NYT: The Washington Post shut one of its blogs yesterday, saying it had drawn too many personal attacks, profanity and hate mail directed at the paper's ombudsman. The closing was the second by a major newspaper in recent months. An experiment in allowing the public to edit editorials in The Los Angeles Times lasted just two days in June before it was shut because pornographic material was being posted on the …
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They Say They’re Good
Agency personnel, in a first, are speaking out in defense of their bad marketing blogs. They say they're good. Grey to Jaffe: I appreciate you taking notice of the fliptomexico.com website. But, as a member of the agency who created the campaign, I'd like to correct a few of your misconceptions. Why didn't we link it to frontier's website? Because this campaign isn't from Frontier. It's not written in their voice. …