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In an animated discussion with Washington Post editors and reporters yesterday, Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer offered his far-ranging views of upcoming changes in technology and the media. Here's a slice: Q. What is your outlook for the future of media? A. In the next 10 years, the whole world of media, communications and advertising are going to be turned upside down -- my opinion. Here are the premises I …
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Adweek has been offering a lot of guest columns of late. They're featuring one from freelance copywriter and creative director, Jim Morris, at the moment. He argues that it's tough being a CD today. His main point is CDs are doing their work and the work of hapless account directors. As I see my creative director clients at agency after agency being stretched and twisted into unnatural positions, it makes me want to …
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I'm pleased to announce that our friends at Greenville identity shop, Brains On Fire, won a Golf Effie last night for their state of South Carolina anti-tobacco efforts. Here's a wallpaper from the RAGE AGAINST THE HAZE site: [via Spike's tweet] …
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According to The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post's hyperlocal play, Loudoun Extra, has failed to attract its desired audience. One reason: the team of outsiders didn't do enough to familiarize itself with Loudoun County or engage its 270,000 residents. This marks the first stain on Rob Curley's resume. Curley is the newspaper industry's nerd wonder. We took note of his progressive doings a year ago, after Fast …
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There's evil in our midst. An evil I, and most of my peers in this business, know all too well. Compromise is the way of the world, and totally unavoidable in many circumstances. Begrudingly, I’ve learned to accept this fact of life. But I also know what a destructive force it can become. If you let it, compromise will eat you alive, cell-by-cell until there’s no you left, just a vacant shell that looks like …
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I thought you had to be a septuagenarian to enter anyone's Hall of Fame. Guess not. …
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