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Citizen Journalists and Citizen DeMilles
Parody is often a form of flattery. At the very least it is a route to notoriety. 10,000 years ago ...
Mommy Hogs the Computer…
Earlier in this blog I waxed adoringly about eMarketer‘s daily newsletter. You NEED to subscribe. Here’s another amazing set of ...
How You Market on FaceBook
One of the most common questions we are asked at Catalyst is “How do I market on Facebook (FB)?” Some ...
Like Seinfeld Had a Show About Nothing Making a Show ...
If nothing else, Second Life Newbies will see what that world looks like.
Antisocial Networks
We’ve been discussing social media here all week, so perhaps it makes sense to also talk about social media backlash. ...
A Video Gift For Loyal Readers Chris and Adam
I couldn’t find the ad we discussed. But this one’s pretty good anyway.
On a Mission from God
This morning I read an interesting article in Time that I thought I’d rant about today. The article discusses religion ...
Papa Eddie: The Original Village Person?
Before there was an indian, a cop, a construction worker, a sailor, and a leather guy, there was a grocer ...
Will Multiply Be Fruitful?
A couple years a go there was a new beauty line available from Revlon called Vital Radiance, targeted to the ...
Heidi Klum, or “Holla Holla”?
OK, so you want to be in social media, but you’re feeling like MySpace is a little too young for ...
Give Me Fewer Choices!!!
eMarketer is an amazing resource. But even if you can’t afford the subscription or the studies, you owe it to ...
You May Not Have a Second Life. But Kids Do.
The buzz around Second Life was intense about a year and a half ago. Now, not so much. Not that ...
UGC Ad Parody of the Day
Let me start by saying that I own an XB, and I love it more than anything. But this is ...
Heckle Me This
They’re out there. No matter how great your brand is, there are people who are bitching about it to someone. ...
If You Want a Good Virus, Find the Carriers
After a lot of years doing digital, I am certain that the toughest thing to do is make a good ...
Thanks to the Web, I Care Deeply About Toilet Paper
Years ago I worked on the advertising for a drain opener. It sounds like the first line of a joke, ...
Corporate Spokesman Mr. Penis Wrinkle Could Not Be Reached For ...
Today I conducted an experiment. I decided to friend a packaged good on MySpace.First I tried Clorox. It’s a brand ...
Regular Brands and Regular Marketers
It’s a fairly regular occurrence that I, at aged 43, am 15 years older than the rest of the room ...