Monday, November 12, 2007

The latest dumbness in American car advertising.

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Of late I have noticed that a new rung on the latter of stupidity has been reached by American automakers and their advertising agencies. In...
Sunday, November 11, 2007

More on blind ads.

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Just saw a new spot by Publicis for Citibank. God does it suck. Oh yes, it looks nice. The music is cool. The locations are stunning, the ac...
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I don't understand.

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There was a time in advertising that calling an ad "blind" was pejorative. Headlines were supposed to impart useful information th...
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Friday, November 9, 2007

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69 years ago today. And today.

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On the nights of November 9-10, 1938, the Nazi state perpetrated a pogrom called Kristallnacht--the Night of Broken Glass. Thousands of Jewi...
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Thursday, November 8, 2007

Giuliani and Pat Robertson explained by Sinclair Lewis.

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"When Fascism comes to America, it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross."

A bit more on losing $5,000 per second.

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Yesterday, I think it was, though it feels like a week ago, I wrote a bit on GM's economic maelstrom, the fact that they posted a loss o...

Interactive brilliance.

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Logos in the 21st Century.

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From virtually the beginning of logos--when colophons were created in pre-literate times, logos have been sacrosanct. You didn't screw w...
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Wednesday, November 7, 2007

It's not about Facebook.

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It's about ideas. Facebook might have inside it a calculus that allows for intelligent tracking and ad serving, but that's not an id...
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