American Madness

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Google Sidebar Centralizes Workplace Procrastination

Gone are the days of having to quickly hide your email, news, blogs, etc. when your boss walks by. The compact, customizable, unobtrusive Google Sidebar now puts a variety of workplace procrastination tools at your fingertips. The tools are actually useful for work stuff too, so nobody can say you are just slacking [...]

BusinessWeek Waxes Poetic on Big Butts

David Kiley writes a great weekly marketing column/blog called “Brand New Day” for BusinessWeek. Recent posts include subjects like advertising to the 2-3 year olds, the WNBA, and Nike’s Big Butt ad.
He’s got a great writing style and I love how he can wax poetic about the subtle points of a big butt ad.
Sure, there [...]

Google Talk is Live

Google talk just debuted to some fanfare today. I was using Iphone, a similar service, on Windows 3.0 in 1994. As far as I can see, Google Talk is not radically different from the other IM services. Yahoo chat and AIM have allowed voice chat for years. No market anomaly here.
When [...]

Blogging Burnout Saves Old Media for the Moment

There are a lot of blogs that have gone silent recently. It?s August, and I sense that after a year of hyperactive blogging, there is a lot of burn-out going around. I know it?s happened to me and I?ve only been blogging for a little over a month.
Corante?s Flackster blog, which went offline [...]

Flackster Rips PR Industry a New @$$-hole

There is a great post on Corante?s Flackster about faulty billing at PR firms. The post, “If it Moves, Bill it!” by Michael O’Connor Clarke, is his final entry in a series that he wrote about ?why so many PR agencies are just so horribly bad.? As you might imagine, there is a bit [...]

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