Nick Denton's got a new blog. One with some pretty lofty ambitions. Welcome, internet, to The Consumerist, the latest title from Gawker Media. The Consumerist loves to shop, and is reconciled to utilities, but hates paying for shoddy products, inhumane customer support, and half-assed service. Each week The Consumerist will guide you through the delinquencies of retail and service organizations. The Consumerist will …
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Is Calling It “Coke Blak” Supposed To Make It Seem Kewl?
From Reuters: Coca-Cola Co. the world's No. 1 soft drink company, on Wednesday said it will launch a coffee-infused soft drink called Coca-Cola Blak in various markets around the world in 2006. A Coke spokesperson said Coca-Cola Blak will be a mid-calorie drink, similar to Coca-Cola C2, which was launched in April 2004 and contains half the sugar, calories and carbohydrates of regular colas. The formula for the new …
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Pinch Me
High Jive brings attention to this horrid controversial call for entries from The Art Directors Club. Damn. What’s up with the advertising business? Advertising Week and the Effies promoted events with sexist imagery. Now an allegedly prestigious organization goes for cheap racial laughs. An industry that has traditionally excluded Blacks shamelessly bites the culture without hesitation. How typical. Or …
Hadji Williams Explains The Perils Of Multicultural Advertising
I've said it before and I'll say it again: Hadji Williams' Knock The Hustle is one of the best books about advertising ever written. But for a free sample of how insightful a writer Hadji is, check out his guest column on Talent Zoo, in which he explains just how multicultural advertising goes so wrong sometimes. Here, Hadji talks about what often happens when multicultural agencies take on projects on behalf of …
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Art Of Debate Lost On Americans
Ben Metcalfe: Mena Trott (co-founder and president of Six Apart) gave, in my opinion, a badly toned and way-off-base speech at the Les Blogs conference in which she requested for more civility in the blogosphere. She appealed to bloggers to be kinder in their commenting, and think about the feelings of the person they are communicating with. I found it very jarring on many levels. For a start, this was a European …
Streets Of Manhattan Home To Guerilla War
Jake Dobkin, publisher of Gothamist, has had it with corporate graffiti. In fact, he says, "Corporate Graffiti Sucks Balls." I've written about this so many times on Gothamist that I'm worried about sounding like a broken record-- but apparently the big corporations have not gotten the message. This week, Sony Playstation graffiti pieces have been popping up like cancer all over Manhattan. The pieces are sometimes …
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Bloggers Rule Tech World
Lee Gomes for WSJ: In the standard theory about technology blogs -- which was the conventional wisdom until a few months ago -- mainstream media were out of touch, elitist or simply ossified, and they would soon be supplanted by a grass-roots army of bloggers working intently at their laptops to speak truth to power. The reality is that while there are now as many tech blogs as stars in the sky, only a tiny fraction …
