Oct 28, 2009

The Stubborn Mule-Like Tendencies of Reactionary Thinking

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Three random events transpired recently. Each fairly innocuous, in and of itself, but together they served to remind me how much the world ...
Oct 21, 2009

Real Time Goes Prime Time

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So it seems like both Bing and Google are in the process of cutting deals with Facebook and Twitter to use their databases for real time s...
Oct 20, 2009

More Magic Advertising Words

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The Wall Street Journal' Kara Swisher reported yesterday that Yahoo! was moving its ad account from Ogilvy to Goodby. The news was gre...
Oct 15, 2009

The Power of No-Roll

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I’m convinced that when historians look back on the early days of the 21st century, they’ll concur that one of the major nails in the coffi...
Oct 13, 2009

More Me

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Time for another BeanCast podcast. This one featuring the lovely Åsk Wappling of Adland . Ken Wheaton of Ad Age . Bob Knorpp (our host)...
Oct 11, 2009

First Ad Age Column

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Ad Age editor Jonah Bloom and I appeared on the same BeanCast podcast a few months back, and the result was an offer to start writing fo...
Oct 2, 2009

Fear and Loathing in Adland

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I don’t know Curt Detweiler . Never even heard of him until this morning when, catching up on my ad trades, I clicked on this article anno...
Sep 29, 2009

The Power of Buzzwords

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Those of you who’ve been reading me for a while know that few things make me cringe like buzzwords, particularly when they’re used in place ...