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Thanks for stopping by! Hey, why don't you do what all the cool kids are doing and subscribe to my RSS feed? You know you want to, so go ahead, be bad, be very very bad... :) Thanks. According to the Wall Street Journal, Walt Disney’s two networks, ABC and ESPN [...]

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My ex-employer Dell Computer Corporation has run into a load of problems recently. To try to rectify it, Dell launched a web site called IdeaStorm where people could make suggestions on what Dell can do to satisfy its customers. The most popular suggestion was that Dell start shipping computers with Linux an open [...]

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For people located in or around the Triangle area in North Carolina, the company I work for, Capstrat, is looking to hire some great copywriters with varying degrees of experience.  If you live in the area or are considering moving here and would like to work for a great company with fabulous people, please don’t [...]

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Recently I have been totally stumped on several fronts in regard to how the television networks program their shows. My biggest question was why do they take hot and popular shows right in the middle of the season and put them on hiatus? I always thought this seemed to be contradictory to common [...]

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about my disagreement to Tim O’Reilly’s Blogger Code of Conduct. I have not changed my opinion on this at all, but over the last couple of weeks I have felt that creating a new code of conduct might be necessary. In some of the my most [...]

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I just read a great article on Younggogetter.com called The Devil and Online Advertising.  It’s a very well written article on online advertising and the issues and challenges that come with it.  Definitely give it a read if you have any interest in online advertising. Popularity: 2% [?]

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First off, I wanted to apologize for the lack of posts and comment responses last week. I have been under a deadline on a couple of campaigns launching this week and just have not had a lot of time or brainpower to write. I am hoping this week will be better. Back to the [...]

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My man Sean Howard has a short and sweet post on BMA about Edelman’s new video site Edelmanfilms.com. He raises two great questions: Why would they brand this Edelman instead of using a vanity URL that would promote their clients and provide some transparency for themselves? Who in their right mind would take the word of [...]

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I saw a video on Sean’s blog, Craphammer that took me to a real interesting campaign P&G is doing called Jingles for Pringles. They launched a contest where users create their own custom video promoting Pringles of course and upload it to their custom site. Very much like YouTube, users can comment and [...]

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Yesterday afternoon I was getting some work done and per usual I had the TV on in the background. I happen to have Nascar on. Even though I live in North Carolina, I am not really a Nascar fan, but for some reason it was on my television as I was working. [...]

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