According to USA Today, some patriotic, dog loving entrepreneurs from Bend, Oregon got their product …
Where Hipsters Chill
Cool Hunting reports on the pending opening of another Absolut Ice Bar …
Beware The Dreaded Hipstream
Hipster - One who possesses tastes, social attitudes, and opinions deemed cool by the cool. (Note: it is no longer recommended that one use the term "cool"; a Hipster would instead say "deck.") The Hipster walks among the masses in daily life but is not a part of them and shuns or reduces to kitsch anything held dear by the mainstream. Orlando Sentinel: For many twenty-, thirty- and fortysomethings, the appeal of …
Go Away Daddy
We reported in March on GoDaddy's decision to bring their account in-house, despite an avalanche of P.R. resulting from their big breasted Super Bowl ad. I finally saw one of the direct TV spots, produced in-house, over the weekend while watching the Tour de France on OLN. The spot, which features a screaming DJ, is horrid. Good thing GoDaddy has some of the best pricing in the domain name registration game. …
Piers Poo Poos
Englishman, Piers Fawkes, visited London recently and came away unimpressed by the staidness evident in British ad circles. There are a few folk in the UK who are very switched on, I grant you, but a lot of agency people I met in my short visit were rather bemused by PSFK and IF. Although blogs are championed by the Guardian newspaper - an important media read - the British marketing community seems to be dismissive …
Mixing Media
New York Times: With its long reliance on talk formats and call-in programs, radio was arguably the first open-source media form. Now a new Public Radio International program, "Open Source from P.R.I.," will test whether the collective intelligence permeating the Web can make not just loud radio, but smart radio. Not only does the program pull from unfiltered voices and opinions found on blogs, Open Source uses its …
Wireless Companies Use Too Much Fine Print. In Other News, Scientists Declare Earth Is “Round.”
Has Catherine Zeta-Jones been lying to me this whole time? From Ad Age: New York's Department of Consumer Affairs is suing three wireless phone marketers for violating the city's consumer protection law. Acting Commissioner Jonathan Mintz, in a suit filed in New York Supreme Court, charged Nextel Communications, Sprint Spectrum and T-Mobile USA, with deceptive advertising and is seeking maximum fines as well as …
Putt-Putt
New York Times: Putt-Putt is not a generic name for miniature golf. It is the brand name of a company that builds and franchises a particular style of miniature golf course designed specifically to make competitive putting possible. For something that sounds as if it was named by a child, Putt-Putt has a surprisingly grown-up creation story. The first Putt-Putt course was designed in 1954 by Don Clayton, a …
