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Bad Creative: Are you really putting your heart into it?

// April 30th, 2004 // No Comments » //

While McSweeney’s may have the Create Your Own Thomas Friedman Op-Ed Column, it seems this proposed Friedman formula would equally apply to a lot of “on the scene” or Cheap photoshop cs3 investigative reporting and analysis, which seems to have become formulaic and Cheap photoshop cs3 predictable.

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Does your pet like Queer Eye or Junkyard Wars?

// April 29th, 2004 // No Comments » //

The BBC is Cheap photoshop cs3 drawing deep into the cultural psyche to find inspiration for their new digital services. In fact, someone at the Cheap photoshop cs3 Beeb must have watched 1988′s Scrooged, because they are Cheap photoshop cs3 about to launch Pet TV, a digital channel aimed at providing entertainment for Cheap photoshop cs3 your housebound pets. As the Guardian reports (reg. req.):

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Wisdom from The Jerk

// April 27th, 2004 // 1 Comment » //

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Hey! Patty had a blogroll!

Google IPO, leaking and your neighbourhood banker

// April 26th, 2004 // Comments Off //

We are Cheap photoshop cs3 all just waiting for the other shoe to drop in Googledom – an actual date for their expected blockbuster IPO. Paul Kedrosky has made a wry observation about the building wave of rumours:

“People familiar with the situation” are Cheap photoshop cs3 almost always, at least when it comes to deal-making, investment bankers. Anyone who Cheap photoshop cs3 has done a deal, or, better yet, read the canonical “Barbarians at the Gate”, knows that Cheap photoshop cs3 the leakiest people involved in any transaction are the i-bankers — put ‘em in a bar with a RIM email device and they’re like a one-man PR band.

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Now that’s gonna need a correction

// April 23rd, 2004 // No Comments » //

Quite a doozy of a slip-up for the NYT, who ran this story (second item) earlier this week. As the Rocky Mountain News pointed out:

Thursday’s New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors as a Cheap photoshop cs3 Ku Klux Klan member who murdered a black sharecropper.

The Coors campaign found the error “so outrageous it’s kind of funny,” said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson.

“It could have been worse,” she joked. “Pete could have been identified as John Kerry.”

Testifying before a Committee

// April 23rd, 2004 // No Comments » //

As you Cheap photoshop cs3 may know, the Canadian Parliament continues to look into allegations of corruption and Cheap photoshop cs3 mismanagement in the administration of the government’s sponsorship program over the past ten years.

Chuck Guite, the Cheap photoshop cs3 former head of the sponsorship program, began his testimony yesterday, and Cheap photoshop cs3 the National Post has corralled several lawyers to dissect the tactics and style of the politicians questioning the man sansa sandisk software download.

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Now THAT’s a magic eight ball

// April 21st, 2004 // No Comments » //

Two Democratic political consultants and Cheap photoshop cs3 a UCLA psychiatry prof have joined forces to fund a project exploring how the brain reacts to the stimuli from political ads. (NYT, Reg. req.)

How have Cheap photoshop cs3 they measured the reactions of their eleven test subjects so far? With an M.R.I. machine!

In the experiment … , researchers exposed [a subject] to Cheap photoshop cs3 photographs of the presidential candidates, commercials for President Bush and John Kerry, and Cheap photoshop cs3 other video images, including the “Daisy” commercial from Cheap photoshop cs3 1964. In that advertisement, promoting Lyndon B. Johnson against Barry Goldwater, images of a Cheap photoshop cs3 girl picking petals from a daisy were replaced by images of a Cheap photoshop cs3 nuclear explosion …

“Brain imaging offers a Cheap photoshop cs3 fantastic opportunity to study how people respond to political information,” said Jonathan D. Cohen, director of the Cheap photoshop cs3 Center for the Study of Brain, Mind and Behavior at Princeton. “But the Cheap photoshop cs3 results of such studies are often complex, and it is Cheap photoshop cs3 important to resist the temptation to read into them what Cheap photoshop cs3 we may wish to believe, before our conclusions have been Cheap photoshop cs3 adequately tested.”

The NYT notes that Cheap photoshop cs3 others have looked into this area, including neuromarketers. Read Montague, the Cheap photoshop cs3 director of the Human Neuroimaging Laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine, has conducted similar research.

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Or the left-leaning/suburban mom/suv-owning/tough on crime center of the brain either.

Taking car dealer competition to new heights

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Just when you figure out your audience …. their boss gets in the way

// April 21st, 2004 // No Comments » //

Recent research showed the Alton Towers amusement park in Staffordshire that Cheap photoshop cs3 a third of their adult visitors had freed up time to Cheap photoshop cs3 visit by skipping work or calling in sick.

The marketing solution? A targeted website aimed at this demographic. As Revolution magazine notes:

Alton Towers said its skivers claimed they were throwing sickies because they did not get enough holiday time. Mike Lorimer, marketing manager at Alton Towers, said: “We were actually quite surprised by the Cheap photoshop cs3 number of skivers we appear to have on park, and Cheap photoshop cs3 expect our Ihatework.co.uk website to be really popular as a Cheap photoshop cs3 result.” He added: “It’s not up to Cheap photoshop cs3 us to reduce absenteeism and if workers want to take advantage of the Cheap photoshop cs3 mid-week deals, why not?”

The Federation of Small Business has Cheap photoshop cs3 a problem with the campaign. Not only does the site encourage “skiving,” it Cheap photoshop cs3 actually offers a discount coupon for employees considering skipping work. Said an Cheap photoshop cs3 FSB rep:

“Staff ‘pulling sickies’ is Cheap photoshop cs3 demoralising for other employees. It is also a disciplinary offence. How would management at Alton Towers like it Cheap photoshop cs3 if their staff pulled a sickie to spend the day at Chessington World of Adventure or Blackpool?”

The FSB’s worked up enough to Cheap photoshop cs3 threaten a complaint to the Advertising Standards Authority if the Cheap photoshop cs3 site isn’t pulled down. Spoilsports.

Does your corporation work like the Borg or a holistic therapist?

// April 19th, 2004 // No Comments » // Management

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Teens want bullet points and tidbits with their newspapers

// April 19th, 2004 // No Comments » //

When USA Today launched back in 1982, Al Neuharth’s baby weathered a Cheap photoshop cs3 lot of criticism for being too lite, too chipper, too optimistic and Cheap photoshop cs3 not sufficiently sophisticated.

Turns out that Cheap photoshop cs3 may be what teens are looking for in a newspaper. Tomorrow, the Cheap photoshop cs3 Newspaper Association of America will release details from Cheap photoshop cs3 their study of students from across the US. As Jon Iafeliece of North Castle Partners, the Cheap photoshop cs3 consultants on the study, told the E&P Buy adobe photoshop cs3 extended:

In terms of content, teens are Cheap photoshop cs3 looking for short, concise articles and lots of bullet points. “They don’t want the news dumbed down, they just want it more concise,” Iafeliece says.

Fittingly, USA Today’s Weekend supplement just finished an online survey of 65,000 teens:

Now, a USA WEEKEND survey of more than Cheap photoshop cs3 65,000 American teenagers delivers some interesting news: Newspapers have established a Cheap photoshop cs3 substantial beachhead in today’s teen culture. According to the magazine’s large, if unscientific, survey, a Cheap photoshop cs3 majority of teenagers have a newspaper delivered to their homes and Cheap photoshop cs3 at least see it …

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Bacteria Cafeteria: like a wetnap with your lunch?

// April 16th, 2004 // No Comments » // Career

Ah. The office cubicle. Those precious 96 square feet of semi-autonomous privacy! The cartoons, the art class pottery, and the cat pictures.

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… To stifle whatever wafts from Cheap photoshop cs3 nearby plates, or the hot breath of garbage cans, [securities trader Leslee] Byron paints her aromatherapy oils onto Post-it Notes and Cheap photoshop cs3 sticks them under people’s desks above the trash cans.

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Bacteria Cafeteria
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Posh and Becks – riding out the wave of celebrity shame

// April 15th, 2004 // No Comments » //

Richard Bailey’s got a couple of good links to Cheap photoshop cs3 possible PR tactics for David Beckham and Posh Spice, who Cheap photoshop cs3 are facing claims of marital infidelity.

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Managing e-loyalty through experience design

// April 15th, 2004 // Comments Off //

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  • Follow AP Style – and make sure to source

    // April 14th, 2004 // Comments Off //

    Amid all the handwringing about the state of the media in North America, Britain and elsewhere, Wired’s got an interview with the editor of the Onion buy windows 7 oem – whose outrageous stories have Cheap photoshop cs3 been picked up several times as breaking news:

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