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Currently browsing posts found in June2008


Unintentionally funny/disconcerting headline of the day

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Comes courtesy our friends at PRWeek:
“Empire State Building hires Edelman for repositioning”
Where, pray tell, do they plan on moving the ESB to? And, if you’re going to reposition one of the world’s largest and most iconic structures, wouldn’t you want to hire, say, an architect or engineer instead of a PR firm?
Or is that just [...]

Adventures in bad ads

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OK, we’ll admit: The all-too-common site of someone walking just about anywhere in public, jabbering away loudly on a cellphone, bearing all sorts of details and insights into their personal or professional lives that we need not know about, tends to illicit one of two reactions from us:
1) Indifference
2) Outright hostilityÂ
It most certainly is not [...]

Adventures in headline writing

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Apparently, Wired’s Gadget Lab blog likes Nokia’s new smartphone so much, it compared thee to a mullet. Nokia’s response: “Thanks?” Our question: If it is indeed a smartphone, where in the hell do you type on the thing?

The easiest solution is rarely the best one

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If it is not dead already, the commercial as we know it is dying. On life support. Ceasing to be. Becoming no more. Surviving on borrowed time. It’s a death that’s been a long time in the works; the advent and subsequent onslaught of DVR technology has merely sped up the process.
The exponential growth of [...]

Memo to the fine, funny folks at The Onion…

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You know, not everyone in the our humble little hometown here is a slack-jawed, smooth-brained, mouth-breathing oaf, staring in wide-eyed wonder at a sizzling plate of fajitas. They may make up the majority, but we’re not all like that.
Oh, who are we kidding – it’s just an honor to have them think of us.